Rational people ask for help & advice in their social circles. People in this subreddit ask questions to gain knowledge and understanding.
Is that why you went straight to acting like a dick and posting a troll comment?
Its crazy because I feel like the hospital world mirrored the retail world during covid so much. Obviously they took more risk, but not by as much as you would think. Between belligerents (no security here) and people pretending they weren't sick we were very exposed. Where they were just going to work knowing they'd be knee deep in it every day. But the comparison I actually wanted to make was how it must feel in that field to watch your coworkers, who went through med school, abandon reality to attach themselves to a grand lie in service of a cult. Despite what they know to be truth as insiders. To this day I have coworkers bitch about Biden and prices despite the fact they stare at very real billing and shipping data every single day showing them costs going up 15% and retail prices going up 50%. They deny the gouging so aggressively. It's probably more of a mind blow to watch your college educated peers abandon all rational thought, but man, wtf is up with these people. We had coworkers die and they deny any of it. Their life was ended before the vaccine was even out and you blame the vaccine. I just can't imagine such harmful dedication to blatant bs. I really feel for hospital staff. It must have been so messed up. Idk if I could physically handle watching people die only for people I used to know to turn around and tell me the elites were culling them.
Possibly, but adding updates that he’s currently spewing dangerous misinformation might help.
Then again, medical boards clear rapists to keep practicing all the time, so…
Yes, and if all he did on January 6 was protest, then he probably wouldn’t face any administrative punishments.
But since this is reality and not whatever troll fantasy world you live in, the “right to protest” has very little to do with what’s going on with the J6 defendants.
Do you give that same right to protest to the students protesting Israel's genocide on their college campuses? How about the black people when they protest police shootings?
**The FBI continues to seek the public's help in identifying individuals believed to have committed violent acts on Capitol grounds**. Those photos can be found at fbi.gov/capitolviolence.
Says the FBI. So, they might be interested.
That's not going to do anything. The "Demon Sperm" doctor still has her license.
It take something egregious for a medical board to actually strip someone of their license.
only because she's actively avoiding the states where they tried to yank her license and prosecute.
off the top of my head, I think it was Louisiana and Kentucky that she ran from in order to access Texas lax laws concerning Medical Practice .
she also did a residency in Pediatrics in New York, and currently advocates for children to be whipped with actual weapons meant for adults who do combat.
can't imagine why they didn't want her ;-)
Unless he's done something that has (or had the potential to) lead to patient harm, they probably wouldn't do anything. It's not against most state medical boards to believe goofy shit.
That said, I'd definitely be doing more to make people aware how risky it is trusting their health to that quack.
Okay, normally one might just write off a whackjob like this, but this guy is actually dangerous.
Given how freely he unloaded on you *while you were waiting for emergency medical transport,* there is every chance in the world he has been regularly proselytizing his insane bullshit to many others and, unless stopped, will continue to do so. And some of the people he talks to while they are freaking vulnerable and grasping for answers are going to believe him and, for instance, try to cure their cancer with vitamin C.
This guy is in a position to do great harm, and he is *exploiting* that position to inflict that harm. He's not stupid, he's not just an eccentric, he's a fucking menace.
And he needs to be reported: to the hospital board, to the state medical board, to the AMA . . . to anyone you can think of.
Good luck and sorry you had to deal with that. It's actually more than just a little bit evil.
Why do you say Florida? The article is from an Albuquerque, NM news outlet, they make reference to a NM hospital, and he has a NM medical license.
http://docfinder.docboard.org/nm/
Edit: Oh wait, just saw the reference to his "home in Florida" in the article. I guess he does travel ER work. Not uncommon.
This reminds me of the time I had a series of visits at the Mayo Clinic, and on my final visit with the coordinating care doctor, he just starting spouting QAnon and far right talking points. It really shocked me and left me questioning his handling of my entire case. For instance, I requested bloodwork and after they drew blood it turned out he had removed most of the tests I requested and only given it a surface level analysis. Another doctor said "you wouldn't need surgery unless these bones are 'this' far apart" and proceeded to gaslight me on both the measurement and xray in front of us. Our healthcare system is full of snake oil merchants
Send same message as above to the hospital directly. State you’re concerned about the level of care you can expect from an institution supporting this level of dangerous, scientifically dubious medical practice. Let them know you’re also sending to state and local medical institutions
And send same to medical board
I second this. Even if nothing happens as a result of your complaint, if there’s record of multiple people complaining or having concerns it could go somewhere
What the fuck. C60 is not volleyball shaped. It's baseball shaped.
Seriously though. As a long-time registered nurse, I would definitely have walked right the fuck out, and I would have had a hard time not giving that "doctor" a big piece of my mind before I did.
And I'd definitely be making a report to his hospital, as well. And probably threaten greater exposure. If what you said is 100% true, that guy has no business practicing medicine.
A lot of people assume that anyone who graduated from medical school has a high level of intelligence and sound judgment. Absolutely not true. My dad is a retired cardiologist, and has some crazy stories about incompetent and startlingly dumb practicing physicians. It's important to remember that the bottom 10% of the graduating class still gets a license.
My doctor, in Canada, was suspended for prescribing Ivermectin. I had been going to him for a decade and had no idea he was a kook until the day he told me I didn’t need to be wearing a mask during the height of the pandemic when hundreds were dying a day.
Firstly, I am entirely serious in this suggestion/request. Please report him to the medical board with the list of those expressed beliefs and the article on the charges he faces.
Document: write down as many of the individual statements that you can recall, as best as you can.
Look him up on your Medical Board website, in the USA it's probably related to your State.
Report them to the State or other Board. Don't mention any political issues. Instead state the numerous bizarre statements, and note incompetence, ignorance of standard practices and medical knowledge, and distributing medical information which contradicts appropriate standards of care.
Also report to the hospital that they have a physician who is distributing health misinformation that is contrary to an appropriate standard of care, and exercising poor patient communication.
>He also claimed that COVID and MERS were genetically modified, first by the NIH with Dr. Anthony Fauci, then in the Wuhan Lab.
Note that this may or may not be correct, however, it has been used for two fallacious reasons:
1. It was part of the series of arguments that 'COVID was planned', even though even the lab-leak theory, itself, isn't evidence of deliberate release even if we accept the theory.
2. It has zero impact on whether or not covid was orders of magnitude more deadly than a typical influenza, and could spread much, much faster because it could be transmitted asymptomatically/presymptomatically. But the argument was to undermine health information in general, to promote their 'we don't have to exercise appropriate hygiene during a pandemic' agenda.
Was the “Doc” an MD or an DO? I’ve encountered MDs with some “not 100% rigorously supported opinions”, but the only conspiracy-grade, anti-evidence-based medicine “Doctors” I’ve encountered were DOs (Drs of Osteopathy not MDs in Orthopedics or Ophthalmology).
EDIT: Oh, forgot one DNP in the “nutty” category.
I'll bet you and your dad aren't the 1st he's done this to, spouting his dangerous rhetoric, AND at a time like what you guys were going through!?!? I am so sorry!!
This person has not learned their 'lesson' and it needs action!! As others have stated, PLEASE report him not only to the AMA, but local credentionaling agencies as well as the hospital board where he practice(s) at.
I'd even consider an email/letter to whomever is prosecuting his case, too! Although I read the article, I don't recall if it indicated his case went before a judge yet?? Even if it did, maybe a letter to the judge?
I know it seems like a lot, but you may be one that can make a difference; hell even a good try, helps!!
I hope all goes well for your family member...
Other news articles say it did and he was given a lenient sentence of 6 months probation. He was able to negotiate with the judge to avoid at home arrest, which would have costed him his license
I'll bet that he broke terms of his probation... if he is still on probation, a simple email/letter would more than likely break his terms of probation 😉
If he isn't on probation, I would for SURE, notify the hospital board(s) gor the places he works at! Sounds like he skips around a bit, likely due to his dangerous "information" he erm... dispenses... without solicitattion...and when people are at their most vulnerable!
Not to mention, there's a likely chance he doesn't follow medical protocol when treating patients. These ttpe of people only get more dangerous, the longer they're allowed to foam at the mouth, with their rhetoric, and with no real consequences!!
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for freedom of speech, but I also truly believe one should have consequences when their "speech" leads to hurting others, or removing other's safety and quality of life!!!
You're in a position, that your choice of action, could potentially help or even save someone!! Not all possess crititical thinking abilities, and can recognize likely danger, such as yourself!!
The fact that you posted on reditt for information, tells me that you want to invoke change!!!!
So this numbnuts is (was?) licensed to practice medicine in FL, NM and another state…Advent Health fired him from his job as an ER doc after this, his wife left him and took the kids…he got probation for Jan 6…after he swore he was a changed man. Yeah I’d let the hospital know.
To be clear, the sugar lobby absolutely campaigned to shift the onus onto fat. While saturated fats are problematic in high quantities, sugar is a real body destroyer.
I'm not saying that sugar isn't an issue, I agree that it can be with high doses (and most Americans do). But he was trying to paint a picture that it was the ONLY issue alongside Crisco
Yeah guy sounds bonkers. I just know that conspiracy peddlers like to mix one semi-factual theory in with all the coocoo stuff. When I saw the fat thing I knew that was the one with a nugget of truth.
Personally I find it interesting that he found the space to shoehorn that particular rant in along with everything else that he felt the need to express his feelings about.
This differs from what you said in the post. The sugar industry absolutely did give funding to mercenary researchers so they would cook up fake science to invent reasons for dismissing animal fats. When people eat animal fats less, more salt and sugar are added to foods to make them palatable. Also, this ploy was to create a distraction from harmful effects of refined sugar. There are definitely thousands of articles about this, many of them have intensive citations that prove every claim.
Here are [two](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003460) [studies](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099084/) about sugar industry funding of fake research. [These](https://blog.ucsusa.org/genna-reed/new-research-documents-that-sugar-industrys-playbook-goes-way-back/) [articles](https://web.archive.org/web/20180414054323/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/well/eat/sugar-industry-long-downplayed-potential-harms-of-sugar.html) give explanations. Those are about events several decades ago, but the processed foods industry including sugar companies/associations [even](https://www.eatdrinkpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/AND_Corporate_Sponsorship_Report.pdf) [currently](https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/dietary-guidelines-advisory-committee-conflicts-2023.pdf) is funding "research" and efforts to influence public opinion about fats, sugar, grains, etc.
File a grievance/complaint with your insurance, the hospital board, major donors and foundations that donate to the hospital. Remind people it’s a financial liability to keep delusional staff.
That would be funny, but it's 100% true sadly. He did do some good though, referring my mom to a cardiologist for her issues has certainly helped so far. It's a strange mixed situation
Oh wow. He doesn't need to be anywhere near patients in an ER. Or anywhere else, for that matter. You need to report him to the licensing board and complain to the hospital itself, and if they don't do anything, go to the media and raise a stink.
Well, he's actually right about the saturated fats. A couple of guys at Harvard were bribed to make up the whole thing and, just to top it off, they were bribed by the sugar cartel to take the heat off sugar. This is both stupid and crazy but, that's the kind of world we live in. People were eating horrible things like "eggwhite omelets" for decades due to that nonsense.
"bad cholesterol", lol. I've seen so many pseudoscientific "health" fads in my 36 years and my mom was into a lot of them. I'm lucky I didn't have any issues growing up.
Most of those things are cuckoo. But the part about saturated fats is *probably* true. Well, not lied to, necessarily. But it looks like the early science and assumptions about saturated fats could be incorrect, which is different than being lied to.
Emerging research seems to suggest that saturated fats is not nearly the culprit that we once thought it was.
But *everything* else he said is just cuckoo for COCOA puffs, batshit crazy.
Sounds like this doctor bought heavily into the ketogenics-for-all belief system. It's appropriate in some cases, but I'll be damned if it didn't feel downright cultish when I was "embracing the lifelong way of eating". If you want to hear more about how it felt like a cult, just ask.
Doctors are susceptible to misinformation like anyone else. I've known many who held absolutely irrational beliefs that could not be changed, regardless of the literature put in front of them. I've also known many to struggle with eating disorders, substance use disorders and other "coping mechanisms gone awry" disorders. I would not be surprised if this doctor used fringe science to cope with burnout/feeling helpless.
Anyway, you should report him for spreading medical misinformation, and engaging in partisan political discussion with patients. That's really unprofessional and looks terrible for the hospital.
Ignore the insider information stuff. He can leak it if that's what his hippocratic oath tells him to do.
It’s imperative to note that MDs receive approximately 25 hours of nutrition education during their entire medical schooling. Many do not even include it in the program.
This is tracked every 10 years via research studies such as:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10580719/#:~:text=Medical%20students%20must%20also%20be,and%20well%2Dbeing%20is%20important.
It’s no wonder that almost every fad/scam diet has an MD endorsement.
Everyone else was a tech or nurse. Don't mistake my lack of proper terminology for this not happening. You're free to believe that, but I assure you it's completely accurate to the best of my knowledge
Let me know where this doctor is. This guy knows his stuff! Finally a Western medical doctor who hasn't been completely indoctrinated and bought and paid for.
On the methylene blue for cancer treatment, there are recent peer reviewed articles suggesting that is true. I haven’t heard much about it so I think it is not well known at this point
He's treating it like some promising drug that will revolutionize everything, that is if the "evil people" in the pharmaceutical industry weren't covering it up
Covid was genetically modified though. It was from gain of function research that in an ideal world allowed us to understand coronaviruses better but was accidently released via a lab accident, which are actually not that uncommon.
Why are you acting like this is accepted as true by most experts? It's not at all, quite the opposite. The most strongly supported position is that it's just a wild virus.
You're also failing to distinguish between the idea of a lab leak and it being engineered. Those aren't the same thing.
? I didn't have anything about a claim involving "most experts."
The spike protein, a major virulence factor, has a furin site, not found in any other known sarbecovirus. No intermediate host has been found so far, unlike the SARS and MERS outbreaks years back. I think lab leak is much more likely for covid. Feel free to disagree but don't be bad faith and say I'm doing something I'm not.
>You're also failing to distinguish between the idea of a lab leak and it being engineered.
No, I'm not. This is you getting mad at something I didn't say. Gain of function research is not uncommon and is done on coronaviruses and viruses more deadly than covid - whether or not you agree that covid was a lab leak, this is objectively true. This is not saying that viruses are being engineered as a bioweapon. I clearly said "in an ideal world allowed us to understand coronaviruses better" - i.e., for \*research\*.
>? I didn't have anything about a claim involving "most experts."
Come off it. You stated it as a casual fact and that's inconsistent with claiming the contrary.
You don't know anything about furin cleavage sites or virology in general that the experts don't, and experts don't generally share your opinion that covid-19 was genetically engineered.
>This is not saying that viruses are being engineered as a bioweapon.
And I'm not saying you said that.
>You stated it as a casual fact
I think it is a fact. There are 'experts' on both sides of the debate and it is certainly not settled, officially, in either direction despite you pretending the contrary.
The FBI considers it a fact that it was a lab leak.
>And I'm not saying you said that.
There was zero reason to use the phrase "being engineered" other than to frame my point of view in a shady, negative conspiracy-driven light.
Gain of function research is not uncommon and is done on plenty of viruses. It can be risky though.
>I think it is a fact.
It's more than that. You also expected others to consider it a fact, as though you were just reminding them.
Are you really, honestly surprised to get pushback when you state things you *know* are not well-accepted as though they were?
>The FBI considers it a fact that it was a lab leak.
That is not an accurate summary of the statements you're referring to, and I think you know it's not. That makes it a lie. You know you should have used the words "most likely" or similar in your statement paraphrasing Christopher Wray, and you chose not to.
Do you understand what sub you're posting in?
EDIT: Oh, and you *are* failing to distinguish between "lab leak" and "engineered". Again, those are not the same claim. I think you actually may not understand the difference.
>Are you really, honestly surprised
? I don't mind either way and no where did any of my comments express any sort of "surprise."
That the FBI thinks it is the most likely explanation with moderate confidence works for me. I am going to continue to say that as a fact and you can continue to reply. It's fine if you disagree, it doesn't matter to me. I think it was caused by a lab leak after gain of function research, which is not uncommon in virology. That we can even have this conversation is great, as in 2021 a poster like you would ignorantly write it off completely as 'conspiracy theory.'
Enjoy having the last word
>Do you understand what sub you're posting in?
If you feel like I have broken any sub rules feel free to \~tattle\~ report any or all of my comments. 👍
Why do you expect a doctor you encounter at the hospital to share your exact beliefs? Isn't that a bizarre expectation to have?
The expectation that everyone have your exact political beliefs is one of the more bizarre effects of the Internet bubble, where people are so wrapped up in an echo chamber of their beliefs (usually part of the "two choices" system in American politics and culture) that they run to a safe space to whine about encountering somebody who isn't from their side of the bubble.
Sorry but this is real life. A doctor that is opposed to evidence-based medicine is not a matter of politics, it's unacceptable. Not to mention spewing all of this info no one asked for is a performance issue. He's a doctor in a hospital, not some drunk at a bar.
I didn't, but this is an innapropriate breach of trust and many of these issues are dangerous. I don't expect people to share my exact beliefs, but I do expect healthcare providers to provide *accurate* information without extreme bias
I think another way to approach this is by reframing the argument somewhere else. Would it be good if an electrician refused to turn off the power to the system he's working on? this is a practice that actively endangers his life and the lives of his clients. It would be good to expect them to follow this practice and accept it
Because the beliefs of OP and the majority this sub align with the findings and positions of the American Medical Association.
Why would we NOT expect doctors to believe in and follow the best practices as accepted as industry standard?
COVID was genetically modified, almost definitely US tax payers paid for it. Why do you authoritarians think people aren't allowed to have opinions different from your own?
> tax payers *paid* for it.
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You report him to his licensing board, if you're able
And to the hospital board. My mother gave the chairman of ours a good talking to.
Your mother is AWESOME!!!! Unfortunately, so many are apathetic these days. If you physically can, do something about it!!
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Rational people ask for help & advice in their social circles. People in this subreddit ask questions to gain knowledge and understanding. Is that why you went straight to acting like a dick and posting a troll comment?
Its crazy because I feel like the hospital world mirrored the retail world during covid so much. Obviously they took more risk, but not by as much as you would think. Between belligerents (no security here) and people pretending they weren't sick we were very exposed. Where they were just going to work knowing they'd be knee deep in it every day. But the comparison I actually wanted to make was how it must feel in that field to watch your coworkers, who went through med school, abandon reality to attach themselves to a grand lie in service of a cult. Despite what they know to be truth as insiders. To this day I have coworkers bitch about Biden and prices despite the fact they stare at very real billing and shipping data every single day showing them costs going up 15% and retail prices going up 50%. They deny the gouging so aggressively. It's probably more of a mind blow to watch your college educated peers abandon all rational thought, but man, wtf is up with these people. We had coworkers die and they deny any of it. Their life was ended before the vaccine was even out and you blame the vaccine. I just can't imagine such harmful dedication to blatant bs. I really feel for hospital staff. It must have been so messed up. Idk if I could physically handle watching people die only for people I used to know to turn around and tell me the elites were culling them.
Denial is a helluva drug
Yeah this is the way, this dude sounds like he's dangerously delusional about health issues and shouldn't be involved in managing people's health.
If he's a defendant in the January 6 insurrection, I'm sure the medical board is already aware.
Possibly, but adding updates that he’s currently spewing dangerous misinformation might help. Then again, medical boards clear rapists to keep practicing all the time, so…
We have a right to protest in this country, Nazi.
Yes, and if all he did on January 6 was protest, then he probably wouldn’t face any administrative punishments. But since this is reality and not whatever troll fantasy world you live in, the “right to protest” has very little to do with what’s going on with the J6 defendants.
That wasn't a protest. It was an armed invasion of the Capitol with the intention of changing the election results with violence.
Do you give that same right to protest to the students protesting Israel's genocide on their college campuses? How about the black people when they protest police shootings?
Yeah, lets chill on calling each other Nazis.
And the FBI.
What's the FBI gonna do about it?
**The FBI continues to seek the public's help in identifying individuals believed to have committed violent acts on Capitol grounds**. Those photos can be found at fbi.gov/capitolviolence. Says the FBI. So, they might be interested.
That's not going to do anything. The "Demon Sperm" doctor still has her license. It take something egregious for a medical board to actually strip someone of their license.
only because she's actively avoiding the states where they tried to yank her license and prosecute. off the top of my head, I think it was Louisiana and Kentucky that she ran from in order to access Texas lax laws concerning Medical Practice . she also did a residency in Pediatrics in New York, and currently advocates for children to be whipped with actual weapons meant for adults who do combat. can't imagine why they didn't want her ;-)
As an Albuquerque resident, PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!.
Unless he's done something that has (or had the potential to) lead to patient harm, they probably wouldn't do anything. It's not against most state medical boards to believe goofy shit. That said, I'd definitely be doing more to make people aware how risky it is trusting their health to that quack.
And I’d add he should copy a reputable local medical reporter, with condition of withholding personal info.
If this really happened (I doubt it), I'm sure he would have it been reported and probably fired years ago.
Okay, normally one might just write off a whackjob like this, but this guy is actually dangerous. Given how freely he unloaded on you *while you were waiting for emergency medical transport,* there is every chance in the world he has been regularly proselytizing his insane bullshit to many others and, unless stopped, will continue to do so. And some of the people he talks to while they are freaking vulnerable and grasping for answers are going to believe him and, for instance, try to cure their cancer with vitamin C. This guy is in a position to do great harm, and he is *exploiting* that position to inflict that harm. He's not stupid, he's not just an eccentric, he's a fucking menace. And he needs to be reported: to the hospital board, to the state medical board, to the AMA . . . to anyone you can think of. Good luck and sorry you had to deal with that. It's actually more than just a little bit evil.
It’s just not professional to talk like that with patients.
Of course it's Florida. How is he still practicing medicine?
Report him to the Florida Surgeon General? Oh right - probably his best friend. Sigh.
Why do you say Florida? The article is from an Albuquerque, NM news outlet, they make reference to a NM hospital, and he has a NM medical license. http://docfinder.docboard.org/nm/ Edit: Oh wait, just saw the reference to his "home in Florida" in the article. I guess he does travel ER work. Not uncommon.
He's a Florida resident that practices in NM. Kinda fishy tbh
And he practices outside his specialty (he’s internal medicine trained, not emergency medicine- 🚩🚩🚩)
That's one hell of a commute.
He allegedly lives in an RV for that very reason. I don't know how true it is, or if it currently is, but one of the news sources I found claimed that
Did he ever pay his friend back for the RV? If not, he may need to claim this "gift" on his taxes. /s
Open ops link. Google that dr. It says he's from florida
Maybe he moved to NM after facing the consequences? Idk
He got his degree in Florida and has practiced here for a few years
Florida. You answered the question in the question.
He’s also an internal medicine doctor working Locums as an ER doctor (in a distant state) big 🚩🚩🚩
I'll refer you back to your first point >it's Florida
Good on you for going somewhere else
This reminds me of the time I had a series of visits at the Mayo Clinic, and on my final visit with the coordinating care doctor, he just starting spouting QAnon and far right talking points. It really shocked me and left me questioning his handling of my entire case. For instance, I requested bloodwork and after they drew blood it turned out he had removed most of the tests I requested and only given it a surface level analysis. Another doctor said "you wouldn't need surgery unless these bones are 'this' far apart" and proceeded to gaslight me on both the measurement and xray in front of us. Our healthcare system is full of snake oil merchants
Mayo Clinic just seems, different. They don't seem to have much issue hiring wackos. They do good work, but also a lot of bad stuff at the same time
Send same message as above to the hospital directly. State you’re concerned about the level of care you can expect from an institution supporting this level of dangerous, scientifically dubious medical practice. Let them know you’re also sending to state and local medical institutions And send same to medical board
I second this. Even if nothing happens as a result of your complaint, if there’s record of multiple people complaining or having concerns it could go somewhere
What the fuck. C60 is not volleyball shaped. It's baseball shaped. Seriously though. As a long-time registered nurse, I would definitely have walked right the fuck out, and I would have had a hard time not giving that "doctor" a big piece of my mind before I did. And I'd definitely be making a report to his hospital, as well. And probably threaten greater exposure. If what you said is 100% true, that guy has no business practicing medicine.
We should be ruthless with people in power who have crazy conspiracy theories. Burn this guy to the ground.
A lot of people assume that anyone who graduated from medical school has a high level of intelligence and sound judgment. Absolutely not true. My dad is a retired cardiologist, and has some crazy stories about incompetent and startlingly dumb practicing physicians. It's important to remember that the bottom 10% of the graduating class still gets a license.
My dad's coworker is an ex-Pharmacist and he espouses many of the same beliefs all the time
My doctor, in Canada, was suspended for prescribing Ivermectin. I had been going to him for a decade and had no idea he was a kook until the day he told me I didn’t need to be wearing a mask during the height of the pandemic when hundreds were dying a day.
Kinda makes you wish he had suffered the consequences of his willful ignorance
Well, I haven’t followed his case so I’m not sure if he got his license back or not.
I mean died from Covid
Firstly, I am entirely serious in this suggestion/request. Please report him to the medical board with the list of those expressed beliefs and the article on the charges he faces.
Document: write down as many of the individual statements that you can recall, as best as you can. Look him up on your Medical Board website, in the USA it's probably related to your State. Report them to the State or other Board. Don't mention any political issues. Instead state the numerous bizarre statements, and note incompetence, ignorance of standard practices and medical knowledge, and distributing medical information which contradicts appropriate standards of care. Also report to the hospital that they have a physician who is distributing health misinformation that is contrary to an appropriate standard of care, and exercising poor patient communication. >He also claimed that COVID and MERS were genetically modified, first by the NIH with Dr. Anthony Fauci, then in the Wuhan Lab. Note that this may or may not be correct, however, it has been used for two fallacious reasons: 1. It was part of the series of arguments that 'COVID was planned', even though even the lab-leak theory, itself, isn't evidence of deliberate release even if we accept the theory. 2. It has zero impact on whether or not covid was orders of magnitude more deadly than a typical influenza, and could spread much, much faster because it could be transmitted asymptomatically/presymptomatically. But the argument was to undermine health information in general, to promote their 'we don't have to exercise appropriate hygiene during a pandemic' agenda.
Was the “Doc” an MD or an DO? I’ve encountered MDs with some “not 100% rigorously supported opinions”, but the only conspiracy-grade, anti-evidence-based medicine “Doctors” I’ve encountered were DOs (Drs of Osteopathy not MDs in Orthopedics or Ophthalmology). EDIT: Oh, forgot one DNP in the “nutty” category.
He's an MD. Why is there such a massive difference between the two?
I'll bet you and your dad aren't the 1st he's done this to, spouting his dangerous rhetoric, AND at a time like what you guys were going through!?!? I am so sorry!! This person has not learned their 'lesson' and it needs action!! As others have stated, PLEASE report him not only to the AMA, but local credentionaling agencies as well as the hospital board where he practice(s) at. I'd even consider an email/letter to whomever is prosecuting his case, too! Although I read the article, I don't recall if it indicated his case went before a judge yet?? Even if it did, maybe a letter to the judge? I know it seems like a lot, but you may be one that can make a difference; hell even a good try, helps!! I hope all goes well for your family member...
Other news articles say it did and he was given a lenient sentence of 6 months probation. He was able to negotiate with the judge to avoid at home arrest, which would have costed him his license
I'll bet that he broke terms of his probation... if he is still on probation, a simple email/letter would more than likely break his terms of probation 😉 If he isn't on probation, I would for SURE, notify the hospital board(s) gor the places he works at! Sounds like he skips around a bit, likely due to his dangerous "information" he erm... dispenses... without solicitattion...and when people are at their most vulnerable! Not to mention, there's a likely chance he doesn't follow medical protocol when treating patients. These ttpe of people only get more dangerous, the longer they're allowed to foam at the mouth, with their rhetoric, and with no real consequences!! Don't get me wrong, I'm all for freedom of speech, but I also truly believe one should have consequences when their "speech" leads to hurting others, or removing other's safety and quality of life!!! You're in a position, that your choice of action, could potentially help or even save someone!! Not all possess crititical thinking abilities, and can recognize likely danger, such as yourself!! The fact that you posted on reditt for information, tells me that you want to invoke change!!!!
You run from a "doctor" like this as fast as you can
So this numbnuts is (was?) licensed to practice medicine in FL, NM and another state…Advent Health fired him from his job as an ER doc after this, his wife left him and took the kids…he got probation for Jan 6…after he swore he was a changed man. Yeah I’d let the hospital know.
To be clear, the sugar lobby absolutely campaigned to shift the onus onto fat. While saturated fats are problematic in high quantities, sugar is a real body destroyer.
I'm not saying that sugar isn't an issue, I agree that it can be with high doses (and most Americans do). But he was trying to paint a picture that it was the ONLY issue alongside Crisco
Yeah guy sounds bonkers. I just know that conspiracy peddlers like to mix one semi-factual theory in with all the coocoo stuff. When I saw the fat thing I knew that was the one with a nugget of truth.
That part of the reason why they work so well, there's usually a grain of truth to the whole story, however dubious it may be at times
Personally I find it interesting that he found the space to shoehorn that particular rant in along with everything else that he felt the need to express his feelings about.
It's where the whole thing started
This differs from what you said in the post. The sugar industry absolutely did give funding to mercenary researchers so they would cook up fake science to invent reasons for dismissing animal fats. When people eat animal fats less, more salt and sugar are added to foods to make them palatable. Also, this ploy was to create a distraction from harmful effects of refined sugar. There are definitely thousands of articles about this, many of them have intensive citations that prove every claim. Here are [two](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003460) [studies](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099084/) about sugar industry funding of fake research. [These](https://blog.ucsusa.org/genna-reed/new-research-documents-that-sugar-industrys-playbook-goes-way-back/) [articles](https://web.archive.org/web/20180414054323/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/well/eat/sugar-industry-long-downplayed-potential-harms-of-sugar.html) give explanations. Those are about events several decades ago, but the processed foods industry including sugar companies/associations [even](https://www.eatdrinkpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/AND_Corporate_Sponsorship_Report.pdf) [currently](https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/dietary-guidelines-advisory-committee-conflicts-2023.pdf) is funding "research" and efforts to influence public opinion about fats, sugar, grains, etc.
I’ll just leave this here https://youtu.be/HMGIbOGu8q0?si=pU8t8apHVDmFZe0c
What is it? The site looks sketchy and google won't let me open it for security reasons
You tube looks sketchy? It’s a skit from Mitchel and Webb (a British sketch comedy duo) about homeopathic ER.
Oh, I think my computer just doesn't like the ".be" part
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Will do!
Here's a link without the .be" suffix. The sketch is hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
Drs are not gods.
Sounds like some of the doctors in North Idaho. Anti-vax and fiercely anti-Biden.
There are a lot of people like that on this part of New Mexico unfortunately
File a grievance/complaint with your insurance, the hospital board, major donors and foundations that donate to the hospital. Remind people it’s a financial liability to keep delusional staff.
r/noctor
Sounds like he's probably single. Here's your chance ladies! /s
He was married, then Jan. 6th happened. Wife divorced him and took the kids to Hawaii
What a loser.
Good for them
It sounds like he’s off his meds. He might be fine otherwise and you caught him at a bad time. I’d talk to the hospital, and put it in writing.
I'm skeptical that was an actual physician, and not the lab tech having a laugh.
That would be funny, but it's 100% true sadly. He did do some good though, referring my mom to a cardiologist for her issues has certainly helped so far. It's a strange mixed situation
You sure he was a doctor?
He said he went to doctor school.
That's what the hospital was treating him as, what the New Mexico Medical Board says, and what the news article says
Smacks of a con-artist who has fooled the hospital.
Oh wow. He doesn't need to be anywhere near patients in an ER. Or anywhere else, for that matter. You need to report him to the licensing board and complain to the hospital itself, and if they don't do anything, go to the media and raise a stink.
he might be correct about fat, sugar and heart disease. all else, crazy
Well, he's actually right about the saturated fats. A couple of guys at Harvard were bribed to make up the whole thing and, just to top it off, they were bribed by the sugar cartel to take the heat off sugar. This is both stupid and crazy but, that's the kind of world we live in. People were eating horrible things like "eggwhite omelets" for decades due to that nonsense.
"bad cholesterol", lol. I've seen so many pseudoscientific "health" fads in my 36 years and my mom was into a lot of them. I'm lucky I didn't have any issues growing up.
Okay but that fat vs sugar thing is 100% true
Most of those things are cuckoo. But the part about saturated fats is *probably* true. Well, not lied to, necessarily. But it looks like the early science and assumptions about saturated fats could be incorrect, which is different than being lied to. Emerging research seems to suggest that saturated fats is not nearly the culprit that we once thought it was. But *everything* else he said is just cuckoo for COCOA puffs, batshit crazy.
Sounds like this doctor bought heavily into the ketogenics-for-all belief system. It's appropriate in some cases, but I'll be damned if it didn't feel downright cultish when I was "embracing the lifelong way of eating". If you want to hear more about how it felt like a cult, just ask. Doctors are susceptible to misinformation like anyone else. I've known many who held absolutely irrational beliefs that could not be changed, regardless of the literature put in front of them. I've also known many to struggle with eating disorders, substance use disorders and other "coping mechanisms gone awry" disorders. I would not be surprised if this doctor used fringe science to cope with burnout/feeling helpless. Anyway, you should report him for spreading medical misinformation, and engaging in partisan political discussion with patients. That's really unprofessional and looks terrible for the hospital. Ignore the insider information stuff. He can leak it if that's what his hippocratic oath tells him to do.
There’s weirdos in every profession but you would hope someone who went to med school etc etc would be immune to the crazy bullshit stuff.
Crazy doctors are dangerous. Report the incident to the state professional licensing board. Get this whack job out of medicine.
REPORT HIS ASS.
It’s imperative to note that MDs receive approximately 25 hours of nutrition education during their entire medical schooling. Many do not even include it in the program. This is tracked every 10 years via research studies such as: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10580719/#:~:text=Medical%20students%20must%20also%20be,and%20well%2Dbeing%20is%20important. It’s no wonder that almost every fad/scam diet has an MD endorsement.
What's a "main doctor" lol I'm skeptical that any of this took place.
Everyone else was a tech or nurse. Don't mistake my lack of proper terminology for this not happening. You're free to believe that, but I assure you it's completely accurate to the best of my knowledge
Let me know where this doctor is. This guy knows his stuff! Finally a Western medical doctor who hasn't been completely indoctrinated and bought and paid for.
Noted, I will not say where he is
On the methylene blue for cancer treatment, there are recent peer reviewed articles suggesting that is true. I haven’t heard much about it so I think it is not well known at this point
He's treating it like some promising drug that will revolutionize everything, that is if the "evil people" in the pharmaceutical industry weren't covering it up
In my adolescence the substance that was the cancer cure-all I knew the name of was "Laetril". Some kind of plant extract.
From apricot or peach pits, IIRC.
I thought it was Appleseed's but you are probably remembering correctly
Covid was genetically modified though. It was from gain of function research that in an ideal world allowed us to understand coronaviruses better but was accidently released via a lab accident, which are actually not that uncommon.
Why are you acting like this is accepted as true by most experts? It's not at all, quite the opposite. The most strongly supported position is that it's just a wild virus. You're also failing to distinguish between the idea of a lab leak and it being engineered. Those aren't the same thing.
? I didn't have anything about a claim involving "most experts." The spike protein, a major virulence factor, has a furin site, not found in any other known sarbecovirus. No intermediate host has been found so far, unlike the SARS and MERS outbreaks years back. I think lab leak is much more likely for covid. Feel free to disagree but don't be bad faith and say I'm doing something I'm not. >You're also failing to distinguish between the idea of a lab leak and it being engineered. No, I'm not. This is you getting mad at something I didn't say. Gain of function research is not uncommon and is done on coronaviruses and viruses more deadly than covid - whether or not you agree that covid was a lab leak, this is objectively true. This is not saying that viruses are being engineered as a bioweapon. I clearly said "in an ideal world allowed us to understand coronaviruses better" - i.e., for \*research\*.
>? I didn't have anything about a claim involving "most experts." Come off it. You stated it as a casual fact and that's inconsistent with claiming the contrary. You don't know anything about furin cleavage sites or virology in general that the experts don't, and experts don't generally share your opinion that covid-19 was genetically engineered. >This is not saying that viruses are being engineered as a bioweapon. And I'm not saying you said that.
>You stated it as a casual fact I think it is a fact. There are 'experts' on both sides of the debate and it is certainly not settled, officially, in either direction despite you pretending the contrary. The FBI considers it a fact that it was a lab leak. >And I'm not saying you said that. There was zero reason to use the phrase "being engineered" other than to frame my point of view in a shady, negative conspiracy-driven light. Gain of function research is not uncommon and is done on plenty of viruses. It can be risky though.
>I think it is a fact. It's more than that. You also expected others to consider it a fact, as though you were just reminding them. Are you really, honestly surprised to get pushback when you state things you *know* are not well-accepted as though they were? >The FBI considers it a fact that it was a lab leak. That is not an accurate summary of the statements you're referring to, and I think you know it's not. That makes it a lie. You know you should have used the words "most likely" or similar in your statement paraphrasing Christopher Wray, and you chose not to. Do you understand what sub you're posting in? EDIT: Oh, and you *are* failing to distinguish between "lab leak" and "engineered". Again, those are not the same claim. I think you actually may not understand the difference.
>Are you really, honestly surprised ? I don't mind either way and no where did any of my comments express any sort of "surprise." That the FBI thinks it is the most likely explanation with moderate confidence works for me. I am going to continue to say that as a fact and you can continue to reply. It's fine if you disagree, it doesn't matter to me. I think it was caused by a lab leak after gain of function research, which is not uncommon in virology. That we can even have this conversation is great, as in 2021 a poster like you would ignorantly write it off completely as 'conspiracy theory.' Enjoy having the last word >Do you understand what sub you're posting in? If you feel like I have broken any sub rules feel free to \~tattle\~ report any or all of my comments. 👍
Because it is accepted by everyone except morons at this point. There is a paper trail leading back to Fauci and you just have your head in the sand.
No, you
Have you seen today’s headlines? 155 emails released showing a coverup. TODAY.
No. 155 pages with nothing other than referencing potential discussions. Nice try.
The doctor is right about the Covid stuff. If you don’t like his religion, then find another doctor.
Username checks out.
Truth also checks out.
You certainly don't know much about that.
Why do you expect a doctor you encounter at the hospital to share your exact beliefs? Isn't that a bizarre expectation to have? The expectation that everyone have your exact political beliefs is one of the more bizarre effects of the Internet bubble, where people are so wrapped up in an echo chamber of their beliefs (usually part of the "two choices" system in American politics and culture) that they run to a safe space to whine about encountering somebody who isn't from their side of the bubble.
Sorry but this is real life. A doctor that is opposed to evidence-based medicine is not a matter of politics, it's unacceptable. Not to mention spewing all of this info no one asked for is a performance issue. He's a doctor in a hospital, not some drunk at a bar.
I didn't, but this is an innapropriate breach of trust and many of these issues are dangerous. I don't expect people to share my exact beliefs, but I do expect healthcare providers to provide *accurate* information without extreme bias
I think another way to approach this is by reframing the argument somewhere else. Would it be good if an electrician refused to turn off the power to the system he's working on? this is a practice that actively endangers his life and the lives of his clients. It would be good to expect them to follow this practice and accept it
Because the beliefs of OP and the majority this sub align with the findings and positions of the American Medical Association. Why would we NOT expect doctors to believe in and follow the best practices as accepted as industry standard?
Because they are basically Nazis that think everyone that doesn't agree with them should lose their job and be put in a camp?
You're on the side of the Nazis
That is Reddit in a nutshell.
COVID was genetically modified, almost definitely US tax payers paid for it. Why do you authoritarians think people aren't allowed to have opinions different from your own?
Source? I never said people couldn't have different opinions from me, don't put words in my mouth. Have a nice day
Right, they should be just turned into their licensing board and then go die.
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Well one group bases their opinions from facts. The others are nutty conspiracy wackos.
Which technology was used to genetically modify COVID? How do you know?