![]() ![]() (McCullough’s attorney told the publication MedPage Today that the lawsuit is “a politically motivated attempt to silence Dr McCullough.”) Kory previously worked at Aurora St. In September of this year, it won a temporary restraining order to keep him from mentioning his prior affiliation with the health system. Neither Kory nor McCullough are in fact currently employed by a hospital or health system, for what it’s worth: Baylor sued McCullough in July of 2021, claiming he’d continued to imply he was affiliated with them after entering into a separation agreement with the hospital system. “Certification is not required to practice medicine, but board certification is required by many hospitals and health care systems because it shows physicians are committed to continued learning and evaluation.” (The spokesperson declined to comment on the specific situation involving McCullough and Kory, stating, “ABIM does not comment on concerns about individual physicians due to a strict confidentiality policy.”) “Licensure is required by law to practice medicine in a specific state and is issued by the state medical board,” a spokesperson for the ABIM wrote in an email to Motherboard. The ABIM certifies doctors who specialize in internal medicine and other subspecialties that certification proves they completed a residency in their specialty and also passed a specialized exam. That is, as a point of order, both wrong and very dumb: The ABIM is a certification body, not a licensing one. This immediately became a fairly big deal on the COVID-skeptical and ivermectin-promoting right, and the publication American Greatness immediately claimed that the body was threatening to “revoke the medical licenses” of both men. ![]() The current situation began when McCullough, a cardiologist formerly employed by Baylor Hospital who’s become a vocal vaccine skeptic, and Kory, a co-founder of the ivermectin-promoting Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, or FLCCC, both said that they’d received threatening letters from the ABIM, saying it was considering disciplinary sanctions against the two men from promoting misinformation. And it’s a very instructive example of how fringe medicine promoters-and their allies in Congress-immediately spin their tangles with the medical establishment into more fame and attention. ![]() The whole thing is a useful view into how mainstream medical bodies are struggling to deal with their still-certified but increasingly out-there colleagues. This narrative has speedily picked up speed across the right-wing ecosystem, with one right-wing website claiming the board is going to “revoke their medical licenses,” which is not something the ABIM can do. Pierre Kory and Peter McCullough, said on Twitter that the board is threatening them for their work. Two prominent vaccine skeptics and promoters of unproven COVID treatments, Drs. Recently, it’s been the American Board of Internal Medicine, or ABIM. In the ongoing saga of the ivermectin guys, who claim they alone hold the extremely dubious cure for COVID, it’s necessary to have an antagonist-someone they can say is threatening them for exposing the truth. ![]()
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