Doctor to the stars is disciplined over use of controversial menopause therapy

[demmiblue]

A Santa Monica doctor who touted a controversial menopause therapy on the Oprah Winfrey Network and received testimonials for her work from such celebrity patients as model Cindy Crawford and actress-author Suzanne Somers has been disciplined by California’s medical board for gross negligence.

In a settlement approved last month, the Medical Board of California put Dr. Prudence Hall on probation for four years, faulting her for being “unaware” of potential risks posed by the plant-based hormones — including cancer — and failing to monitor her patients properly.

Hall used numerous hormones to treat two women, according to the board, missing an aggressive uterine cancer in one patient and treating the other based on an “incorrect diagnosis in a manner such that [Hall] stood to gain financially.”

“My jaw was on the floor. This is just egregious,” said Dr. Jen Gunter, a San Francisco Bay Area OB-GYN who reviewed the medical board’s report. “You hear about all these self-described functional medicine doctors providing these treatments. Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be in this ballpark.”

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-doctor-hormones-disciplined-20180912-story.html

Dr. Jen Gunter is great... she has gone after Gwyneth Paltrow/GOOP numerous times for unscientifically proven, well, crap (jade eggs, vaginal steaming, coffee colonics, etc.).

Here is her website: https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/

[samnsara]

1. thank you Mom and Dad for raising me to question things that are...

...'too good to be true'....and to always engage in critical thinking.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. "Vaginal Steaming"???

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vaginal-steam-facial-review_us_57151bf9e4b06f35cb702f0c

Oooookay...

[Farmer-Rick]

3. So many doctors are only in it for the money

So many of them just want to make the big bucks. They are not in it to help the sick and suffering anymore.

Capitalism turns even some of the most compassionate people into greedy fools and criminals.

[CaptainTruth]

4. Dr Jen Gunter is on Twitter, @DrJenGunter

As her pinned tweet says:

"Come for the sex, stay for the science
Come for the science, stay for the sex"

[demmiblue]

5. And? I'm not sure I get your point for posting that.