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TexasTowelie

(116,607 posts)
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 12:04 AM Feb 2022

Medical boards pressured to let it slide when doctors spread COVID misinformation

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.

“I’m very glad that we’re taking this step,” Dr. Stephen Loyd, the panel’s vice president, said at the time. “If you’re spreading this willful misinformation, for me it’s going to be really hard to do anything other than put you on probation or take your license for a year. There has to be a message sent for this. It’s not OK.”

The board’s statement was posted on a government website.

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.

Read more: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/02/19/medical-boards-pressured-to-let-it-slide-when-doctors-spread-covid-misinformation/

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Medical boards pressured to let it slide when doctors spread COVID misinformation (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2022 OP
This is professionalism? Deuxcents Feb 2022 #1
TN is an international disgrace! SheltieLover Feb 2022 #2

Deuxcents

(19,599 posts)
1. This is professionalism?
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 12:21 AM
Feb 2022

This is what their oath means? Is this the best health care we can provide? Republican law makers are slacking n should be called out loud n clear.

SheltieLover

(59,543 posts)
2. TN is an international disgrace!
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 01:29 AM
Feb 2022

They also stripped powers of the 6 regional health departments in the state.

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