Will California punish doctors for false COVID-19 information?
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“In order for a patient to give informed consent, they have to be well informed,” Pan said.
A group called Physicians for Informed Consent filed a lawsuit against California’s medical board this month that says regulators are already “attempting to intimidate by investigation, censor and sanction physicians who publicly disagree with the government’s ever-evolving, erratic, and contradictory public health COVID-19 edicts.
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The bill also warns, “The spread of misinformation and disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines has weakened public confidence and placed lives at serious risk,” and spells out that doctors have “a duty to provide their patients with accurate, science-based information.
MedPage Today reported earlier this year that other states have attempted to limit the authority of medical boards to discipline doctors for spreading misinformation — or disinformation — about COVID-19.
Doctors who spread false information about COVID-19 could lose their license to practice medicine in California for “unprofessional conduct” under a bill passed this week by that state’s legislature.
California would become the first state in the nation to punish doctors for giving patients false or misleading information about COVID-19 risks, vaccinations and treatments if the bill is signed into law in the coming weeks by California Gov.
The bill leaves it up to the Medical Board of California to decide whether doctors’ interactions with patients — not their public statements — rise to the level of unprofessional conduct, and then to determine whether that merits revoking their medical license or taking other action, such as suspension.
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