Welsh doctor, 64, who recommended patients use livestock dewormer to treat Covid and other ‘potentially harmful’ substances is banned for an extra year

• Sarah Myhill promoted dewormer, backed by some celebrities for treating Covid
• Dr Myhill said she has been trying to get her name removed from register

A doctor has been banned for an extra year after she recommended controversial Covid treatments, such as using vitamins and a livestock dewormer to treat the virus.

Private practitioner Dr Sarah Myhill, 64, posted online videos and articles advocating taking vitamins and other substances in high doses.

But she was ‘risking safety’ by exposing people to ‘potential serious harm,’ a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing found.

The doctor used her website to promote iodine and Vitamins C and D to protect against Covid, the disciplinary hearing heard. 

However, she failed to highlight the risks of ‘mega dosing’ Vitamin C and her recommendations ‘undermined public health’ without proof that they worked.

Dr Myhill, from Knighton, Powys, also promoted livestock dewormer Ivermectin, which was backed by some celebrities including Joe Rogan for treating Covid.

The US Food and Drug Administration released a statement in 2021 about the drug – and said: ‘You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.’

Private practitioner Dr Sarah Myhill, 64, posted online videos and articles advocating taking vitamins and other substances in high doses

The tribunal found the substances were ‘not universally safe’ when used in the ways she recommended and the doses were not supported by any professional UK medical body.

Dr Myhill worked for 20 years as an NHS GP before she decided to go private.

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She was suspended from the medical register for nine months earlier this year for misconduct following her recommendations during Covid.

In videos posted between March and May 2020, Dr Mykhill, who discredited the use of facemasks, described her substances as ‘safe nutritional interventions’ which rendered ‘vaccinations irrelevant.’

However, the previous tribunal found that they were in fact not completely safe and could pose dramatic unseen health risks. They also found there was no evidence the advice would be effective.

Her ban has now been extended by an extra 12 months after a panel found she showed no ‘reflection’ following the previous tribunal.

Dr Myhill said after the hearing that there was no need for her name to be on the register because she now worked as a naturopath.

She said she had been trying to get her name erased since she stopped paying GMC fees in 2020.

She said: ‘Even now I’m not allowed to do a voluntary erasure because they say I’m still under investigation. It’s a laughable state of affairs.’

Dr Myhill said it was ‘not good for my professional reputation’ that tribunals kept being held – and added: ‘I don’t know how to get the GMC off my back.’

Dr Myhill said after the hearing that there was no need for her name to be on the register because she now worked as a naturopath

Concerns were also raised by the General Medical Council after Dr Myhill failed to diagnose a possible fractured hip in April 2020.

She administered 20mg of the steroid hormone prednisolone, 2mg of anti-anxiety medicine diazepam, and a ketogenic diet.

The tribunal heard there was no ‘clinical justification’ for this – but Dr Myhill said the patient was ‘terrified of going into hospital as he thought he would die of Covid if admitted’.

She said she advised Vitamins C and D to ensure he had the best chance of surviving Covid. The tribunal heard the patient did eventually get Covid in hospital and there was no lasting damage.

Dr Myhill claimed she set up her website during the pandemic for no financial gain but to make information ‘freely available’.

Panel chair Catherine Moxon said the doctor had done ‘a lot of reading’ on vitamins and supplements but found no evidence this was ‘balanced reading’.

She added that Dr Myhill had failed to show any ‘reflection or remediation’ and that a new 12-month suspension would be imposed as a deterrent.

Mrs Moxon said suspension rather than a permanent ban was the best option because it would give her a chance to return to medicine.

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