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Dr. Susan Myhill Warned about Web Site Claims

Susan Myhill, MB, BS, practices what she calls “ecological medicine” and is secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine. In 2012, the British General Medical Council (GMC) warned Dr. Myhill about statements on her Web site that thermal imaging (breast thermography) was superior to mammography for cancer detection that hormonal contraception was unduly dangerous. The GMC investigative committee report (shown below) concluded: On your website you made statements in relation to contraception and breast cancer screening that were factually incorrect, clinically unsubstantiated, and contrary to national guidelines. In so doing you used your position as a registered practitioner to exploit patients’ lack of medical knowledge by arousing ill founded fears for their health. This conduct does not meet with the standard required of a …