Medical boards told to back off when doctors spread COVID misinformation

[teach1st]

Medical boards told to back off when doctors spread COVID misinformation
Tampa Bay Times, 2/16/2022, by Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio

Tennessee’s Board of Medical Examiners unanimously adopted in September a statement that said doctors spreading covid misinformation — such as suggesting that vaccines contain microchips — could jeopardize their license to practice.

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But before any physicians could be reprimanded for spreading falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines or treatments, Republican lawmakers threatened to disband the medical board.

The growing tension in Tennessee between conservative lawmakers and the state’s medical board may be the most prominent example in the country. But the Federation of State Medical Boards, which created the language adopted by at least 15 state boards, is tracking legislation introduced by Republicans in at least 14 states that would restrict a medical board’s authority to discipline doctors for their advice on COVID-19.

Dr. Humayun Chaudhry, the federation’s CEO, called it “an unwelcome trend.” The nonprofit association, based in Euless, Texas, says the statement is merely a COVID-19-specific restatement of an existing rule: that doctors who engage in behavior that puts patients at risk could face disciplinary action.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2022/02/16/medical-boards-told-to-back-off-when-doctors-spread-covid-misinformation/

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[Aristus]

1. The hillbillies are leading us down the path to a new Dark Ages.

I guess burnings at the stake are next.

[piddyprints]

2. A relative of one of my friends

recently died from Covid after his cardiologist told him not to get vaccinated. He was an anti-vax Trumper to start with, so it probably wouldn't have done any good to recommend vaccination. Still, the last thing we need is docs telling people not to get vaccinated, it's OK not to get vaccinated, vaccinations will make medical conditions worse, etc. This MAY have been the same cardiologist who told me not to get any more vaccinations. (We only have 1 office in town and it's vehemently anti-vax, so what are the odds?)

Next time i need a cardiologist, I'm going out of town. I'm never going back to that quack.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Then the state medical boards can no longer protect the public.

And serve no purpose any more.

[teach1st]

4. Feature, not a bug?

The Republican Party has morphed from small government to fuck government.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes, end game. Everything will be under GOP party control.

Destroy American institutions to put them under central control.

Like Hitler did. Like Russia and China now.