{"id":248483,"date":"2022-01-18T08:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T08:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248483"},"modified":"2022-01-19T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:22:54","slug":"doctor-loses-license-must-have-psych-evaluation-for-covid-falsehoods-board-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248483","title":{"rendered":"Doctor loses license, must have psych evaluation for COVID falsehoods, board says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julia Marnin \u2013 Miami Herald Jan 14, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A doctor with decades of experience can\u2019t practice medicine after her license was temporarily suspended over complaints that she shared coronavirus misinformation, according to a Maine licensing board.<\/p>\n

The board has ordered her to undergo a neuropsychological evaluation, it said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Meryl J. Nass, who got a license to practice medicine in Maine in 1997, had her license \u201cimmediately\u201d suspended for 30 days after a board investigation and review of complaints against her on Jan. 12, according to a suspension order from the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine.<\/p>\n

Nass, who\u2019s an internist in Ellsworth, must \u201csubmit\u201d to an evaluation by a \u201cBoard-selected psychologist\u201d on Feb. 1, the board\u2019s evaluation order issued Jan. 11 said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no comment about submitting to a neuropsych exam, except that the board ordered me to do so on shaky grounds,\u201d Nass told McClatchy News, adding that she\u2019s had her license for a total of 41 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe information received by the Board demonstrates that Dr. Nass is or may be unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to her patients by reason of mental illness, alcohol intemperance, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, or as a result of a mental or physical condition interfering with the competent practice of medicine,\u201d the evaluation order states.<\/p>\n

The complaints against Nass include how the board was told she engaged in \u201cpublic dissemination of \u2018misinformation\u2019\u201d about COVID-19 and vaccinations \u201cvia a video interview and on her website,\u201d the board said about the October 26, 2021 complaint. It lists several comments Nass made that were subject to the board\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n

Roughly 10 days later, the board got another complaint about Nass \u201cspreading COVID and COVID vaccination misinformation on Twitter,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Nass called \u201cdisinformation and misinformation\u201d a \u201cfuzzy concept\u201d that the board hasn\u2019t defined for her, she said. \u201cThere\u2019s no law that says doctors can\u2019t express their educated opinion on any subject.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other grounds for her suspension include how Nass treated COVID-19 patients with Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, according to the board.<\/p>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The doctor in question merely expressed her opinion about Covid-19 and prescribed Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. As a result she has been suspended and will now have to undergo psyche evaluation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248497,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248483\/revisions\/248497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}