Doctor facing repercussions

It took long enough, but a Cleveland doctor who made the bizarre decision to give false testimony to an Ohio House Committee in 2021 has had her medical license indefinitely suspended.

Sherri Tenpenny — and, again, remember at the time she was a licensed medical doctor — told lawmakers there was an “interface” connecting COVID-19 vaccines to 5G cell towers, and that vaccines “magnetize” people. After that, she evaded a State Medical Board of Ohio investigator’s requests to sit for an interview, according to a report by WCMH-TV in Columbus, and repeatedly failed to cooperate with the board. That is why her license was suspended.

It may be a matter of technicalities, but it is difficult to fathom the board was not able to suspend her for telling the Ohio House Health Committee “I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized. They can put a key on their forehead. It sticks. They can put spoons and forks all over them, and they can stick.”

This woman had been a licensed medical doctor since 1984. But even with the education she had and the wealth of knowledge and experience she must have acquired during 37 years of practicing medicine, she was well known as a vaccine opponent. When a pandemic had us in its grasp, the deadly social media conspiracy madness that stirred up so many had Tenpenny in its grasp, too. But to take those falsehoods to an Ohio House committee was a step too far.

For now, she has been fined $3,000 and given conditions she must meet before her license can be reinstated. The medical board says those conditions will be made available once they know the outcome of an investigation and hearing. Perhaps they should consider whether one of those conditions is to simply make her read the Hippocratic Oath over and over until she begins to understand just how much harm she has done.