{"id":7363,"date":"2024-08-14T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2024-08-14T08:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:14:56","slug":"doctors-accused-of-spreading-misinformation-lose-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/14\/doctors-accused-of-spreading-misinformation-lose-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors accused of spreading misinformation lose certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/13\/doctors-accused-spreading-misinformation-lose-certifications\/\">Washington Post<\/a> The\u00a0<strong>American Board of Internal Medicine\u00a0<\/strong>revoked the certifications of\u00a0<strong>Pierre Kory\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Paul Marik<\/strong>, two physicians known for continuing to promote ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medication, as a treatment for covid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/02\/26\/ivermectin-use-covid-flu-rsv\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long after<\/a>\u00a0the medical community found it to be ineffective. The two men co-founded the\u00a0<strong>Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance,<\/strong>\u00a0which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/02\/21\/covid-misinformation-earnings\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">experts say spread<\/a>\u00a0misinformation about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0pandemic. The Board\u2019s website listed both men\u2019s certifications as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abim.org\/verify-physician?type=name&amp;ln=kory&amp;fn=pierre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revoked<\/a>\u201d within the past week. That effectively prevents them from practicing at large hospitals and academic institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the separate telehealth group that Kory leads states on its website that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drpierrekory.com\/cowboys-and-indians-by-scott-marsland-fnp-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kory and another medical provider at the practice have received complaints<\/a>\u00a0against their medical credentials, there are no disciplinary actions listed against him in Wisconsin, New York or California, states where Kory is licensed to practice medicine. Marik\u2019s medical\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dhp.virginiainteractive.org\/Lookup\/Detail\/0109542065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">license in Virginia expired in 2022<\/a>, according to the state\u2019s Department of Health Professions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/13\/doctors-accused-spreading-misinformation-lose-certifications\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post The\u00a0American Board of Internal Medicine\u00a0revoked the certifications of\u00a0Pierre Kory\u00a0and\u00a0Paul Marik, two physicians known for continuing to promote ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medication, as a treatment for covid\u00a0long after\u00a0the medical community found it to be ineffective. The two men co-founded the\u00a0Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance,\u00a0which\u00a0experts say spread\u00a0misinformation about the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0pandemic. The Board\u2019s website listed both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7364,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions\/7364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}