In Idaho, Dr. Ryan Cole is the only licensed physician on the Central District Health board, which directs Idaho’s largest regional public health department. In the height of the pandemic Cole treated patients by telehealth, for free.
Yet, the Washington state medical board has filed charges against him related to COVID-19 and the care he gave, including two charges of misdiagnosis of cancer.
According to the Idaho Capital Sun, the charges allege Cole also gave “numerous false and misleading statements” that were “harmful and dangerous to individual patients, generated mistrust in the medical profession and in public health, and had a wide-spread negative impact on the health and well-being of our communities.”
Allegedly, Cole disseminated misinformation on:
- the COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 vaccines
- the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19, despite clinical trials showing it to be ineffective and global health authorities and the drug’s own manufacturer warning against its use for COVID-19
- the effectiveness of masks
Cole disputes the claims. “This has been purely Good Samaritan care for patients desperate for help that was not being offered elsewhere,” he wrote in a letter to the Washington Medical Commission last year. “… I provided free medical care out of a real attempt to help those in need.”
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Idaho Capital Sun January 18, 2023