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A controversial doctor providing unproven measles treatments to unvaccinated children in West Texas recently contracted the highly infectious virus himself amid the mushrooming outbreak—and he continued treating patients while visibly ill with the virus.
The doctor’s infection was revealed in a video posted online by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the rabid anti-vaccine advocacy organization founded and previously run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time anti-vaccine advocate who is now the US secretary of health. Kennedy headed CHD until January, when he stepped down in anticipation of his Senate confirmation.
In the video, the doctor, Ben Edwards, can be seen with mild spots on his face. Someone asks him if he caught measles himself, and he responds, “Yeah,” saying he was “pretty achy yesterday.” He went on to say that he had developed the rash the day before but woke up that day feeling “pretty good.” The video was posted by CHD on March 31, and the Associated Press was the first to report it.
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They’re gonna take his license right?
I mean this is very clearly a breach of the hippocratic oath, surely.
As an aside, I’ve recently had more interactions with the medical fraternity than I would care to due to chronic illness in our family.
I’ve seen time and again that Doctors are not superior to any other profession. They specific areas of expertise just like anyone else, and within that area they follow established guidelines.
The unusual thing is the amount of study they need to complete to receive a “Doctorate”. Doing more study doesn’t make you more smart, it usually just means that you have the opportunity to spend a decade of your life pursuing academic achievements, which most people do not.