The Federation of State Medical Boards warned on July 29 that doctors and other health professionals. They could risk losing their medical licenses if they spread wrong information about the vaccine COVID-19 on social media, online and in the media.
In the US it is already a reality
FSMB, a nonprofit organization representing all US state medical boards, said any doctor who believes or spreads misinformation or misinformation about vaccines. You risk disciplinary action from state medical boards.
Including suspension or revocation of his medical license, according to an emailed statement to Becker’s Hospital Review.
Why the doctors?
“Due to his specialized knowledge and training. Licensed physicians have a high degree of public trust and therefore have a powerful platform in society, whether they acknowledge it or not. So said FSMB.
“They also have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interest of their patients. So they must share information based on facts, scientifically based and based on consensus for the improvement of public health ”.
ACTIONS TO TAKE
The FSMB has not yet formally defined “disinformation” or “disinformation” in its policy. But the organization’s ethics committee is looking into the problems of medical misinformation and misinformation. So it plans to provide further guidance at a later date, an FSMB spokesperson said in an emailed statement. to Becker’s.
“However, we currently consider disinformation to be the sharing or distribution of verifiably false information.” According to the spokesperson. “We define disinformation as sharing or distributing information that the distributor knows to be false.”
The culprit: Social media?
While the FSMB has not yet made a recommendation for definitions of misinformation and misinformation. State and territorial medical boards can use various terms, such as “professional misconduct” or “violation of ethics.” This, in their own procedures for addressing misinformation and misinformation concerns.
In July, President Joe Biden criticized social media platforms like Facebook for allowing misinformation about vaccines to spread on their services, claiming that misinformation about vaccines is “killing people,” according to CNBC.
The FSMB declaration comes as the country faces an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. As of July 29, national cases were up 439.7 percent from the lowest average in June 2021. Only 49 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated, The New York Times reported.
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