United Kingdom: Dr Julian Kenyon, Dove Clinic

[Dolphin]

Dr Julian Kenyon struck off the UK medical register
https://edzardernst.com/2024/05/julian-kenyon-struck-off-the-uk-medical-register/

He has previously published on ME/CFS.

 

[Hutan]

Now it has been reported that Julian Kenyon was struck off the UK medical register. Apparently, he put pressure on a patient with advanced cancer to pay £13,000 for so-called alternative medicine (SCAM), including sound and light therapy. He ran the former Dove Clinic, a private health centre at Twyford, Hampshire and wrongly told his patient: “You have had all the standard treatments and you are running out of treatment options”. Kenyon’s prescription in May 2022 included sonodynamic/photodynamic therapy as well as the supplements cannabidiol, claricell and similase. The patient was asked to pay a further £20,000 if the initial course of treatment was unsuccessful, the tribunal heard.

 

[Trish]

Good. He had definitely gone rogue some time ago. I could never understand why Karl Morten thought he was a fit and proper person as a research colleague.

 

[rvallee]

Seems deserved but I can't see how this is any different from standard recommendations for CBT, GET, LP and other woo, where the pressure is built-in.

SCAM is now accepted standard health care. I guess the difference is that cancer is taken seriously, but that shouldn't even matter. It's all so arbitrary.