Countrygirl
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I am placing this under 'advocacy' as I am requesting that patients advocate for a ME doctor who has had his licence to practice removed for allegations which, I have been given to understand, are 'trumped-up' in order to get rid of him.
We all know of Dr Byron Hyde of Canada. He has worked tirelessly for 30 years, helping ME patients and is well known for ensuring members of the community are not rejected by their health insurers while he undertakes thorough tests that other doctors fail to undertake.
He has also written extensively on the subject of ME, including an encyclopaedia of ME which was free to download on the internet while he has another large book which is due out about now.
Here is a little about him from his Nightingale Foundation:
https://www.nightingale.ca/our-founder
Here is a list of helpful and interesting documents for patients from the foundation:
https://www.hfme.org/
Here is a very interesting talk by Byron Hyde.
Here is his little red book on ME which you can download: https://www.imet.ie/imet_documents/BYRON_HYDE_little_red_book.pdf
And do read this story of a UK child that was sectioned by doctors as a punishment following a complaint by her father and who Dr Hyde later correctly diagnosed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qN5P6UNSiXefTN5BEQtxf1MFGCdAcfhn/view
There is a thread on it here:
https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...child-who-was-sectioned-by-her-doctors.58619/
https://doctors.cpso.on.ca/DoctorDetails/Byron-Marshall-Hyde/0016579-21364
I also have personal knowledge of Dr Hyde as he came all the way to SW England to try to rescue a patient whom he had diagnosed in Canada with severe ME and severe POTs, and several other conditions who had been sectioned by the local medics and is still locked away after eight years. He is a dedicated doctor who has fought against the BPS school and championed us for decades. Now he is being persecuted by the Canadian College of Physicians who have taken his licence to practice away. I wouldn't be at all surprised that, as one of the older generation, he wasn't familiar with keeping records on a computer, but the accusations, I have been reliably told from a source I trust, are a trumped up by a medical profession which is keen to get rid of a maverick who has served us to the very best of his ability for decades.
As you know, if you followed the good news yesterday, Canada has pledged to help ME patients at last and an important announcement was made by the Canadian Minister of Health which you can read about here: https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...s-aug-22-at-2pm-est.77397/page-2#post-2225858
I think Dr Hde deserves this community's support and I do encourage our Canadian members to request that the Health Minister listens to Dr Hyde, intervene in his case, if possible, and not let his decades of experience be wasted while he ends his career in ignominy at the age of 82. We owe him our support. It is a cruel way to end a career. Please don't let this happen without us fighting for him.
Here are some examples of the charges against him:
The remainder of the charges can be found here: https://doctors.cpso.on.ca/DoctorDetails/Byron-Marshall-Hyde/0016579-21364
Dr Hyde , at 82, feels he cannot challenge these accusations. I can imagine he would feel overwhelmed by the challenge at his age and it would also probably be very costly.
I do hope we have some members here who will do what they can to ensure Dr Hyde knows the community is grateful for his championship over the decades and do what they can to bring this injustice to the attention of the Minister of Health, especially given that we are in favour at the moment.
Thank you!
We all know of Dr Byron Hyde of Canada. He has worked tirelessly for 30 years, helping ME patients and is well known for ensuring members of the community are not rejected by their health insurers while he undertakes thorough tests that other doctors fail to undertake.
He has also written extensively on the subject of ME, including an encyclopaedia of ME which was free to download on the internet while he has another large book which is due out about now.
Here is a little about him from his Nightingale Foundation:
https://www.nightingale.ca/our-founder
Here is a list of helpful and interesting documents for patients from the foundation:
https://www.hfme.org/
Here is a very interesting talk by Byron Hyde.
Here is his little red book on ME which you can download: https://www.imet.ie/imet_documents/BYRON_HYDE_little_red_book.pdf
And do read this story of a UK child that was sectioned by doctors as a punishment following a complaint by her father and who Dr Hyde later correctly diagnosed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qN5P6UNSiXefTN5BEQtxf1MFGCdAcfhn/view
There is a thread on it here:
https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...child-who-was-sectioned-by-her-doctors.58619/
https://doctors.cpso.on.ca/DoctorDetails/Byron-Marshall-Hyde/0016579-21364
I also have personal knowledge of Dr Hyde as he came all the way to SW England to try to rescue a patient whom he had diagnosed in Canada with severe ME and severe POTs, and several other conditions who had been sectioned by the local medics and is still locked away after eight years. He is a dedicated doctor who has fought against the BPS school and championed us for decades. Now he is being persecuted by the Canadian College of Physicians who have taken his licence to practice away. I wouldn't be at all surprised that, as one of the older generation, he wasn't familiar with keeping records on a computer, but the accusations, I have been reliably told from a source I trust, are a trumped up by a medical profession which is keen to get rid of a maverick who has served us to the very best of his ability for decades.
As you know, if you followed the good news yesterday, Canada has pledged to help ME patients at last and an important announcement was made by the Canadian Minister of Health which you can read about here: https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...s-aug-22-at-2pm-est.77397/page-2#post-2225858
I think Dr Hde deserves this community's support and I do encourage our Canadian members to request that the Health Minister listens to Dr Hyde, intervene in his case, if possible, and not let his decades of experience be wasted while he ends his career in ignominy at the age of 82. We owe him our support. It is a cruel way to end a career. Please don't let this happen without us fighting for him.
Here are some examples of the charges against him:
The College retained Dr. Mark Nassim to provide an opinion with respect to Dr. Hyde’s care and
treatment of patients. In his reports, Dr. Nassim opined that:
a) Dr. Hyde failed to maintain the standard of practice with respect to his medical record-
keeping in that:
i. His patient charts are not clearly written, are disorganized and often lack an easily
identifiable patient record;
ii. He fails to maintain chronological SOAP notes or other clearly delineated summaries
of patients’ investigations and medical condition(s), such as a Cumulative Patient
Profile, and does not include pertinent positive or negative findings, rationale for
ordering investigations or discussions with patients about the results;
iii. Dr. Hyde uses unprofessional language in his charts to describe his patients;
b) Dr. Hyde states that he practices “complex disease management” primarily involving
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which is outside the conventionally-
recognized scope of general or primary care practice;
f) Dr. Hyde lacked knowledge as to whether or not his electronic correspondence and
patient files are encrypted or stored in a secure fashion, despite the fact that he purported to
conduct an extensive telemedicine practice from Italy for several months each year.
Unprofessional communications, boundary violations, and conflict of interest
Dr. Hyde is the founder of a charitable foundation. Dr. Hyde wrote newsletters for his charitable foundation, which he mailed to the patients in his medical practice. (The ME Nightingale Foundation)
In these newsletters, Dr. Hyde provided his personal opinions that the compensation of
physicians in Canada is inadequate, complained about the College’s requirements of physicians, solicited patients to make donations to his charitable foundation, (what charity doesn't???) and disclosed inappropriate personal information about himself and of his patients.
The remainder of the charges can be found here: https://doctors.cpso.on.ca/DoctorDetails/Byron-Marshall-Hyde/0016579-21364
Dr Hyde , at 82, feels he cannot challenge these accusations. I can imagine he would feel overwhelmed by the challenge at his age and it would also probably be very costly.
I do hope we have some members here who will do what they can to ensure Dr Hyde knows the community is grateful for his championship over the decades and do what they can to bring this injustice to the attention of the Minister of Health, especially given that we are in favour at the moment.
Thank you!