Media Coverage on Dr Gerdes Loss of License
We are sorry that we are late in posting this, but Karina’s case has been receiving quite some coverage in Danish newspapers, in relation to the recent loss of license for her chosen treating physician, Dr. Stig Gerdes.
The local newspapers to Fredericia, where Dr. Gerdes has his office, have had the biggest coverage of this case. They seem to have an interest in this case, which is possibly helped by the numbers of views and comments by those who have been supportive of the Hansen family. Please turn off your adblockers and click on the links below to let them know that many of us are interested in this case, especially if it receives fair and balanced coverage.
Several of the pieces submitted were written by Bente Stenfalk, who most of our followers know is a staunch advocate for Karina Hansen in Denmark.
Below is a summary of the articles, sorted by date. We have translated the headline of the article but we recommend using Google translate for the articles. Also, a summary in parenthesis is provided for some links where we feel the headline needs further explanation. The effort to translate this number of articles far exceeds our abilities to provide translations at this time. Future articles will be edited into this note.
The only "new" information for those of us who have been following Karina's case, is that they planned to move Karina yet again, before she was taken back to her parent's house. During the course of the late fall/early winter 2016, the plan was to move Karina to a municipal facility that normally houses people with substance abuse problems.
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14/01-2017 Fredericia-doctor loses his license
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/frederic...
14/01-2017 Local doctor loses his license with immediate effect
http://www.danmarkc.tv/lokal-laege-...
16/01-2017 The Health Board took away 17 doctors licenses without warning the other Nordic countries
http://frdb.dk/sundhed/Styrelse-tog...
16/01-2017 Case in Holstebro is costing a doctor his license
http://dagbladet-holstebro-struer.dk/...
16/01-2017 Raging debates - For and Against Stig Gerdes
http://dagbladet-holstebro-struer.dk/...
17/01-2017 Controversial doctor gets lots of support on Facebook.
http://www.tvsyd.dk/artikel/kontrov...
17/01-2017 Office chief: We have to make sure that the doctor follows the laws (A medical chief in Region South does not wish to speak about any specific cases, but says it's their job to make sure doctors uphold the laws).
http://www.tvsyd.dk/artikel/kontorc...
17/01-2017 Doctor took medicine from mentally ill woman - now he lost his license
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/...
17/01-2017 Board: Gross negligence costs doctor his license
http://frdb.dk/sundhed/Styrelse-Gro...
18/01-2017 Well known doctor gets punished for gross negligence: Loses license for 2 years (An article with several factual errors, most notably that they claim Karina herself has Münchausen by Proxy Syndrome. They've usually tried to pin that on her mother, Ketty.)
http://lokalavisen.dk/kendt-laege-s...
18/01-2017 Well known doctor finished as a doctor for two years. (Basically the same as above, with an addition of what the health board says, and claiming that Dr Gerdes is reponsible for the halvation of girls daring to take the HPV vaccine after media coverage)
http://www.bt.dk/danmark/kendt-laeg...
19/01-2017 Chairman of The Parliamentary Health and Elder Committee wants a guarantee that a doctor-case is not about punishment (Karina is mentioned by name)
http://frdb.dk/sundhed/Sundhedsordf...
19/01-2017 Patients: We would never had a good life without Stig
http://frdb.dk/sundhed/Patienter-Ud...
20/01-2017 Letters From Readers: Open letter to Members of Parliament and Members of Health Board. (By Bente Stenfalk, so Karina's case is summarized with full name)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/laeserbr...
21/01-2017 Letters From Readers: The patient’s doctor and spokesperson have lost his license. (Karina's case is anonymously mentioned in brief detail).
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/laeserbr...
22/01-2017 Letters From Readers: The background for Doctor Stig Gerde's loss of medical license. (Again by Bente Stenfalk, summarizing Karina's case this time only with first name)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/laeserbr...
23/01-2017 Stig Gerdes: They decided to break my neck (Karina is mentioned with her full name)
http://frdb.dk/fredericia/Stig-Gerd...
23/01-2017 Controversial Doctor speaks: I won't give up.
http://www.tvsyd.dk/artikel/kontrov...
23/01-2017 Stig Gerdes: I'll go at their throats
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/st...
23/01-2017 Gerdes on medical colleagues: They're cowardly chickens.
http://frdb.dk/fredericia/Gerdes-om...
24/01-2017 Region patiently awaits Gerdes substitute.
http://frdb.dk/fredericia/Regionen-...
24/01-2017 The city's doctors in a meeting with Gerdes about helping his patients
http://frdb.dk/sundhed/Byens-laeger...
24/01-2017 Doctor Stig Gerde's and Karina Hansen’s cases are closely linked (By Bente Stenfalk,summarizing how NBC worked for a long time to forcibly treat Karina, hoping to make her a success-story)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/laege-st...
25/01-2017 The Stig Gerdes-Case: Aarhus University Hospital threatens with prison. (Due to Bente's articles mentioning how closely linked the Gerdes case is with Karina's, the press chief at the university hospital have criticized the newspaper for publishing it, and claims that publishing Karina's medical information is punishable with up to 6 months in prison, and that NBC should be allowed to refute the claims. The newspaper seems to find this strange and wonder if it's normal for them to threaten with prison in order to change an article. However, Bente does have permission to mention things from Karina's medical journal as she's representing Karina via The Citizens Rights Movement, and The University Hospital was given a chance to reply, but refused. An update at 1.40 PM shows that Medicinal Chief Claus Thomsen have decided to reply after all. He calls it a severe attack on a chief physician (NBC), and seems more concerned about Karina's information being spread than Karina's rights to choose her own treatment.)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/stig-ger...
26/01-2017 Severe attack on Bente Stenfalk (Bente replies to the above article)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/groft-an...
27/01-2017 City Doctors says no to taking on Stig Gerdes 1900 patients - The region will have to react now.
http://frdb.dk/fredericia/Bylaeger-...
27/01-2017 Region: It's completely unacceptable that the doctors refuse patients
http://frdb.dk/fredericia/Regionen-...
28/01-107 Letters From Readers: Democracy or systemic dictatorship - Yesterday it was your neighbor, today it was your doctor, and tomorrow it will be you! (An article arguing certain semantics and laws. Karina is mentioned with full name, but this is mostly an ode to Stig Gerdes)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/laeserbr...
30/01-2017 Stig Gerdes prepares to shut down his clinic
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/st...
30/01-2017 Read: Stig Gerdes sends an open letter to the Health Minister. (Karina is mentioned, last name removed by the editor)
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/la...
31/01-2017 Stig Gerdes ready to give up his clinic - but the patients have to pay to change to a new doctor
http://frdb.dk/fredericia/Stig-Gerd...
31/01-2017 Stig Gerdes: I'm finished as a doctor.
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/st...
01/02-2017 Clinic reopens: Stig Gerdes found a replacement.
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/kl...
02/02-2017 Gerdes: Change back to my clinic for free
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/ge...
02/02-2017 The municipality and the region step up: Free for patients to return to Stig Gerdes
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/ge...
02/02-2017 Rules and regulations that have been broken in the Karina-case according to the Health Ministry's own guidance. (By Bente Stenfalk, summarizing all the legal breaches in Karina's case).
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/forhold-...
03/02-2017 Stig Gerdes' patients can now consult a doctor again
http://frdb.dk/fredericia/Stig-Gerd...
04/02-2017 Read Karina Hansen's Medical History
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/laes-hel...…/ (This has been translated by Bente and can be read HERE:
https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForKarinaHansen/posts/10209952902073494 )
7/02-2016 Minister refuse to comment on Stig Gerdes criticism (The Health Minister is refusing to comment on the open letter by Stig Gerdes, and directs queries to the Board Of Patient Safety.)
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/mi...
07/02-2017 Letter From Reader: Whose patient safety? (This is a letter which calles for the licenses of Dr Fink and Dr Balle Christensen to be revoked upon the basis of Karina's case. She is not mentioned by name)
http://www.arbejderen.dk/læserbrev...
09/02-2017 Scientists: The treatment that was forced on Karina Hansen are based upon manipulation and fraud (This is written by Bente Stenfalk, and is a breif summary of James Coyne's criticism of Per Finks research and the PACE trials)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/forskere...
16/02-2017 Considerations about lifesaving treatment, timely manner, where responsibility belongs, force and abuse of power. (This is yet another article written by Bente, and she's debating the reason for forcefully commiting Karina against her will, and later forcing a guardian on her.)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/overveje...
21/02-2017 New demands to shed light on the Stig Gerdes-case (The Minister of Health considers the case to be a single specific case that she doesn't want to look at. Liselott Blixt objects)
http://fredericia.lokalavisen.dk/ny...
21/02-2017 The Karina-case: Guardianship can be used in service of the system against patient interests (Yet another one by Bente Stenfalk, highlighting how the system has abused the laws to further their own agenda in Karina's case)
http://fredericiaavisen.dk/karina-s...
01/03-2017 They came with 8 officers, took Karina, and made her sick (This is a summary of the case seen from Per & Ketty's viewpoint.)
http://lokalavisen.dk/de-kom-med-8-...