It is obvious from the article on Dr. Meryl Nass’ Maine Board Licensure in Medicine (MBLM) hearings that your journalist did not view the actual hearings.  I have watched every minute.  In fact, the MBLM is the one that has created the spectacle. The two medical experts the board used were not terribly versed in COVID, research and protocols for COVID during the time that Dr. Meryl Nass was treating the patients cited in the article.  I suggest your journalist listen to their testimony and that of the experts called for the defense.  It will be painfully obvious that the defense witnesses have vast experience and professional expertise not possessed by the state’s witnesses.  Furthermore, all the patients in the article were interviewed as part of the hearing and they all wholeheartedly supported the care that they received from Dr. Nass.  

Moreover, the board has dropped the majority of charges against Dr. Nass.  What is unconscionable is that they suspended her license without due process.  Dr. Nass is an MIT-trained physician who has practiced medicine for decades with no malpractice suits.  Certainly, she deserves to be treated as innocent before proven guilty.

I am not an “anti-vaxxer per se,” however I will no longer take vaccines.  I took the COVID vaccine thinking the airlines would not let me fly.  My hands blew up due to the reaction with my rheumatoid arthritis.  One would think I would have learned my lesson but, oh no, I also took the pneumonia vaccine because I had had pneumonia a few years earlier.  Then my wrists blew up.  So, no more vaccines for me.

Ginny Schneider lives in Cochiti Lake, New Mexico, and formerly lived in Portland and South Portland.