Should medical boards penalize doctors who give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus?

No, but the doctors should be required to disclose that the advice contradicts contemporary scientific consensus

Yes, and the doctors should also lose their medical license

Yes, this will decrease the amount of misinformation patients receive

No, only when the advice was proven to harm the patient

No, scientific consensus can quickly change and patients should be allowed to try unconventional ideas

Should a doctor's personal beliefs influence the health advice they give to their patients?

No, as long as they discuss this advice first with healthcare officials first and have gotten approval.

No, and abolish all occupational licensing

It's a hard call. Sometimes off-label finds, help more than items that were set to to fix those ordeals.

Yes, especially when it comes to Autism. In fact every doctor in Autism research should be fired, because it is mostly non-Autistic people.

They often spread the “vaccines cause autism” conspiracy theory and even prescribe gluten and dairy free diets because they say it “helps autism” when it doesn’t when it only helps with co-morbidities like gut issues. On top of recommending ABA therapy, which is abuse, it takes the Autism out of the Autistic, and many Autistics, myself included have ptsd from ABA.

We never have our voices heard, and we are sensitive and often…  Read more we get violently touched or restrained, or forced eye contact or yelled. Sometimes hit too. Or they won’t get their favourite thing like an iPad or sensory toy until they comply with the therapist. When it comes to Autism research we need to listen to Autistic voices and not doctors or moms with Autism, who talk over us, and then as a result we are stereotyped, where most peoples views on autism are either children, serial killers or sex perverts or geniuses like sheldon Cooper in “the big bang theory”.

How do you think spreading unverified medical information by a professional could affect public health?

I am unsure as there is a lot of mix ups and constantly changing information as well as weaponisation of science to push agendas

yes, but only if they are penalizing the patient for not following. also if they are doing so in their own office.

No as long as they don’t stop patients from seeking treatment

I don’t know what this means

Medical boards should ensure that doctors give health advise that is close to universally accepted as true. When there are large discrepancies such as with covid vaccines etc, then they should not.

execute the doctor

They should use their medical license and be punished. A doctor spreading medical misinformation jeopardizes the safety of patients.

Yes, the medical field has advanced rapidly and the doctors are responsible for staying up to date. Failure to do so is a failure to perform their job to the best of their ability for the sake of their patients health care.

Yes, but only if there's no significant or emergimg scientific literature to back up the advice, and there should be robust policies in place to ensure the patient is aware of their options.

Yes, but make sure it's done in a way so that people don't distrust public health officials, and there is opportunity to prevent disinformation and conspiracy.

No, but the doctors should be required to disclose that the advice contradicts contemporary scientific consensus. Otherwise, I'll have a second opinion.

Do not penalize them, instead, create a public and private option for healthcare.

This is an absolutely ridiculous question and should be removed

Depends on the type of health issue.

When it endangers the public

Let the patient sue if it harms them

No, slippery slope, although reasonable review measures and discipline should still apply.

No, if all the information is provided and there is no bias then they should have the option to share

Yes, if the advice does serious harm to the patients

No if the patient should informed the the advice is against the current scientific consensus

In your opinion, how can a balance be maintained between innovation in medicine and adhering to established scientific facts?

How would you feel if a doctor gave you health advice that later turned out to be incorrect?

No, because some doctors know naturally healthy remedies that the government doesn't want them to know yet there more helpful than medicine which is made of chemicals

How might punishing doctors for their advice affect the patient-doctor trust relationship?

Should doctors who disagree with prevalent scientific consensus have a platform to express their views, and why?

If a doctor's advice based on old scientific beliefs harms a patient, who should be held responsible?

Should there be a line drawn between freedom of speech and professional responsibility in healthcare, and where would you draw it?

Can you think of a time when the 'scientific consensus' was wrong and how that impacts your view on this issue?

What if a treatment worked for you but is not widely accepted by the scientific community, should the doctor be penalized for recommending it?

No, this limits medical debate and freedom of speech