FINDINGS OF FACT
The Board finds Licensee engaged in unprofessional conduct or dishonorable conduct, as
defined in ORS 677.188(4)(a), as conduct that is contrary to medical ethics and does or might
constitute a danger to the health or safety of the public and committed multiple acts of
negligence and gross negligence in the practice of medicine as follows:
4.1 On or about July 02, 2020, Patient A – a member of the OHP – contacted
Licensee’s medical clinic to request guidance on when and if to be tested for COVID-19. Patient
A was told asymptomatic persons should not be tested, that wearing masks does not prevent
transmission of COVID-19, and was directed not to self-isolate because being around other
people would provide Patient A with immunity to COVID-19. On or about July 23, 2020, after
Patient A had questioned the appropriateness of the COVID-19 advice provided, Patient A was
terminated as a patient.
4.2 Licensee and the staff in his clinic refuse to wear masks in the clinic and urge
persons who enter the clinic wearing masks to remove their masks.
4.3 Licensee regularly tells his patients that masks are ineffective in preventing the
spread of COVID-19 and should not be worn. Licensee further asserts that, because virus
particles are so small, they will pass through the recommended N95 masks and most other face
coverings people are choosing to wear. Licensee directs patients to a YouTube video providing
false information about mask wearing.
4.4 Licensee regularly advises, particularly for his elderly and pediatric patients, that
it is “very dangerous” to wear masks because masks exacerbate COPD and asthma and cause or
contribute to multiple serious health conditions, including but not limited to heart attacks,
strokes, collapsed lungs, MRSA, pneumonia, and hypertension. Licensee asserts masks are likely
to harm patients by increasing the body’s carbon dioxide content through rebreathing of gas
trapped behind a mask.
4.5 Licensee’s COVID-19 protocols for his clinic call for patients to be masked only
if they present with cough, fever, or “suspicious” viral illness and do not call for any of the
health care providers to wear masks unless these conditions exist.
4.6 Signage posted in Licensee’s clinic asserts the clinic is complying with
(unspecified) COVID-19 protocols, but does not include any information on what those
protocols are.
4.7 On December 2, 2020, a Board investigator visited Licensee’s clinic and
observed: neither patients nor health providers were wearing masks; no screening procedures
were in place or being conducted (e.g., taking patient temperatures on or before entering the
clinic); no hand sanitizer was available in the waiting area; a sign was posted in the public area
of the clinic with “warning signs” of CO2 toxicity; an article was posted in the public area of the
clinic, with a portion of the article highlighted that claims 94% of the individuals who will
experience serious effects of COVID-19 have co-morbidities.
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