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Hyceanplanet t1_it9an8t wrote

>has also blogged that COVID-19 vaccines are associated with reproductive harm. No recognized medical body has substantiated that claim, which is oft repeated in anti-vaccine circles. Nass has also described the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a “criminal agency.”

She only got suspended for 30 days after two+ years of this shit.

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peter-doubt t1_it9bb3l wrote

Whenever the medical profession runs into such crap they claim doctors know their materials better than politicians. I'd generally agree. The docs say it's best for professionals to police themselves.....

Yet this one never faced peer discipline. (Nor did Dr Oz.) Clearly the profession can't police itself.

This slow process at least shows it can be done.. but somehow it needs more speed. COVID is often deadly, and she didn't help that at all.

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elewynne t1_it9e4dl wrote

Unfortunately we are not allowed to do much in the US. Lawyers and politicians decided several decades ago that doctors could not be trusted to be in charge of medical things due to potential conflict of interest (like hospitals), and the public (i.e. businessmen and politicians) would be better served with MBAs and such in charge of physicians (in such that some people can make insane amount of money doing it). Story is more complicated, but in short.... Medicine in America is doomed to a slow, awful, death.

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Maxpowr9 t1_it9sk43 wrote

Depends where you live. In rural America it will be coming pretty quickly as the brain drain from said states continues to accelerate.

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peter-doubt t1_itdno6n wrote

And medicare funding isn't matched by rural states... Their hospitals will be closing in big numbers soon.

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ReverendKen t1_itequ74 wrote

The local hospital where I live prefers to kill their patients quickly.

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ReverendKen t1_itfz6ck wrote

Our local hospital is like none I have ever seen. They have a really bad reputation for giving terrible care that results in people not living through the experience. I will never go back and I warn people to go somewhere else.

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Mist_Rising t1_it9s8pc wrote

Doctor absolutely can police themselves, like lawyers they have a system within the system, and that system is very much a prickly thing if they want it to. The thing is both the bar and medical associations prefer they do the least possible because as if turns out policing yourself doesn't work out.

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TjW0569 t1_ita65e8 wrote

It could work. But for it to work, you have to accept that you will be periodically embarrassed by one of your coworkers.
Those professions are so in love with their own authority that they're never going to do that.

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danheskett2022 t1_itcjyjz wrote

The bar and it’s state chapters is really good at policing itself. Being disbarred is the quickest way to ruin your legal practice.

The AMA And state licensing boards are not nearly as effective because they also want to artificially keep turn number of doctors low, to keep wages high. It’s a classic cartel.

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peter-doubt t1_it9mzj4 wrote

This is the most accurate assessment 8ve heard from one source in years...

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pro_nosepicker t1_it9e3j3 wrote

Nah, we police ourselves WAY more than people realize. Pretty easy to see so by goi g to the national practitioners database. Not many other professions have the equivalent.

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Snoo_75332 t1_itbqnhs wrote

Covid is often deadly lol, please provide support documentation 😂

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peter-doubt t1_itdnygf wrote

COVID was often deadly.. you need to be unvaccinated and/ or careless about masks to be at significant risk these days.

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Coherent_Tangent t1_it9x25p wrote

Still better than if she were in Florida. Our state surgeon general is an anti-vaxxer. Watched a video of him today sitting in with talking head who was calling the vaccine demonic and insisting it was a measure to kill people.

Now he didn't make these claims himself, but he did smile and nod along without correction the guy. This is the person who would suspend licenses in our state, so Maine feels entirely sane to me. Sad times.

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DorisCrockford t1_itannv5 wrote

That guy is really out there. He might not have made those claims himself this time, but he's been doing so himself for years. I'm sorry your state is in the clutches of the nutjobs.

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johngalt1971 t1_itbgl5p wrote

Licenses are not under the state surgeons general jurisdiction. It is up to the state medical board to decide on issues related to licensing. It is made up of several members.

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jim_deneke t1_itbidnm wrote

Has anyone followed up on that claim? Because a vast majority have been vaccinated and there's still no mass unexpected deaths occurring.

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mcbergstedt t1_itakwx8 wrote

There were worries about the vaccines affecting women’s reproductive organs before the vaccine was released. But then all of the testing (and mass vaccinations) proved that it didn’t do anything

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timar48 t1_itcfwl0 wrote

I also remember a big story about how it affected women’s menstrual periods after being vaccinated. After the study came out about it it stated that while, yes it did, it was determined the vaccine delayed menstrual periods by one WHOLE day. Didn’t change anything but delayed the onset of menstruation by an average of 24 hours. I know women who have roomed together, shared an apartment, whose periods fluctuated more when they moved in together. So I don’t find it even notable here.

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functionalman t1_itj0pcl wrote

I think there is early data about increase infertility and miscarriage rate. Need a few more months for publications to catch up.

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