The College of Physicians of Barcelona (COMB) has sanctioned the doctor and Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades with 18 months of disqualification to practice medicine for championing the antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties of sodium chlorite, also known as MMSand propose it to treat some conditions.
The resolution agreed by the Governing Board of the COMB, chaired by Jaume Padrós, to which EFE had access this Thursday, rejects all the allegations of Forcades, which included various studies that, according to her, support the evidence of the safety of chlorite of sodium and the indications of its possible efficiency in various pathologies.
The professional association has imposed two disqualifications of 9 months each for the disclosure of sodium chlorite made by the doctor and religious and for having maintained a “manifestly contrary, continuous and reiterated conduct with respect to the requirements that have been made” .
The sanction resolution considers that Forcades has defended “publicly, repeatedly and continuously in various media outlets, the benefits of sodium chlorite, which attributes antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties”.
“This disclosure -the COMB alleges- has been made in her capacity as a doctor, taking advantage of the authority that this condition attributes to her, leading to misunderstandings and generating false expectations in society, especially in people who may be especially vulnerable due to the diseases they suffer”.
Although Forcades recognize that sodium chlorite is not a medicinedefends doing more studies to find out its benefits, while the instructor of the file argues that the nun has maintained an attitude contrary to the Code of Ethics, “contrary to good faith, maintaining a discourse that, in addition to lacking scientific rigor, can generate a serious risk to the health of citizens who follow the undocumented information it provides”.
The file also includes the opinion of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) and the Pharmacology Service of the Vall d’Hebron Hospital, which do not value the clinical studies on which Forcades is based and they understand that the nun has violated rule 82 of the Code of Ethics which says that “physicians must take special care in disseminating experimental results through the social media that may lead to misunderstandings and create false expectations”.
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Speaking to EFE, Teresa Forcades has described the sanction as “unfounded” and has announced that she is evaluating with her lawyers filing a Sponsored links.
The nun-doctor believes that there has been “arbitrariness” in the initiation of the file, maintains that the sanction “is frustrating because it has not taken scientific articles and publications into account” and affirms that it has not breached any requirement of the professional association.
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Forcades has attributed his temporary disqualification to the drift of the College of Physicians for “imposing a single discourse and praxis without accepting the legitimate plurality based on scientific evidence in the exercise of the profession.”
In this sense, he has given as an example that the COMB has eliminated the college sections of homeopathic medicine, acupuncture and naturopathy and that the University of Barcelona has suppressed the master’s degree in traditional Chinese medicine that it taught.