Md. suspends autism doctor's license

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By Steve Mills and Patricia Callahan
Tribune reporters
11:53 a.m. CDT, May 4, 2011


A doctor who has treated children with autism with a drug sometimes used to chemically castrate sex offenders has had his medical license suspended in his home state of Maryland after officials there determined he was placing children at risk with his controversial and expensive treatment.

Dr. Mark Geier, who has treated some Illinois children and retains a license to practice medicine here, was the subject of a 2009 Tribune investigation that called the hormone-disrupting treatment into question.

Geier allegedly misrepresented his credentials, misdiagnosed young autism patients and encouraged their parents to approve risky treatments without fully informing them of potential dangers, according to the Maryland State Board of Physicians’ April 27 order to suspend Geier’s license.

Geier, according to the medical board’s order, “endangers autistic children and exploits their parents by administering to the children a treatment protocol that has a known substantial risk of serious harm and which is neither consistent with evidence-based medicine nor generally accepted in the relevant scientific community.”

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chibrknews-maryland-suspends-license-of-autism-doctor-20110504,0,2545323.story

[trotsky]

1. The Geiers have been some of the worst quacks in the anti-vax world.

Glad to see one of them get a little comeuppance.

[Odin2005]

2. ABOUT DAMN TIME this fucker had the book thrown at him.

[salvorhardin]

4. Unfortunately, he still has his medical license in Illinois. eom

[semillama]

3. Kick for importance

I've seen citations of the Geiers in discussion in this very forum this year. Hopefully they will be the last.

[LeftishBrit]

5. kick

With all the side effects that Lupron can have, it was criminal to give it to kids, when there is NO evidence that it is remotely relevant to developmental disorders.