Fear Leads to Fraud

Parents in the UK panicked,  measles/mumps/rubella  injection "might" have a link to autism.  Non thinking resulted, and they rushed to pay extra to have single-disease injections.

(One mom realizes the objections to the 5-in-one inoculation ("jab" in Brit-speak)  are mystical not rational; Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, who has an autistic child, wrote a long and scholarly analysis of the anti-vaccination scare story)

One low-life physician took advantage of parents' fears and "provided" separate vaccinations for measles.  Oops, he used out-of-date or over-dilute preparations, which lead the kids unprotected.  But his bank account was well fed..

GP forged injection test resultsVaccination-Scam Doctor convicted.

Dr David Pugh offered vaccinations at a private clinic.  A GP forged children's blood tests when exposed by a newspaper as a fraud after charging parents £70 for separate measles, mumps and rubella injections.  Dr David Pugh, 55, admitted at Cambridge Crown Court faking four test results at the clinic he ran near Borehamwood, Herts, in February 2003.

Parents read in a Sunday newspaper that inoculations given at the clinic might not be effective. The GP carried out blood tests to pacify the parents but forged results.  Thousands of families concerned that autism could be linked to the all-in-one MMR jab paid to have separate inoculations at Dr Pugh's Elstree Aerodrome clinic, the court heard.

The practice was hugely successful - treating 250 children a week - and had a turnover of about £17,500 a week at the height of the autism scare in 2002.  Having agreed to blood tests he changed the results which showed children had not been properly vaccinated to deceive parents and protect his business, a court was told.

Dr Pugh inserted the results of a blood test on his 26-year-old daughter Josephine, who was inoculated against the three diseases, into some of the negative blood tests on his child patients.

He admitted forgery at Cambridge Crown Court today and sentencing was adjourned until next month. Dr Pugh, who comes from Hoddesdon, Herts, but has been living in Runaway Bay, Queensland, Australia, was freed on bail.  Josephine Pugh, of Finchley, north London, denied any wrongdoing. Three allegations of forgery against her were ordered to lie on file by a judge.

Feb 5, 2002:  "Many parents who feel unwilling to allow their toddlers to receive the triple MMR vaccine - despite the vast majority of doctors believing it to be safe - still want to protect them against measles.  We Could Vaccinate Hundreds More"

July 8, 2003: Lifeline Care, Dr. Pugh's clinic, did not prepare the measles vaccine properly

July 9, 2003: Dr. Pugh was arrested in May

August 6, 2003: Pugh made up vaccines that were out of date, or severley over-diluted, and fired the physicans who complained about his approach

June 16, 2004: Pugh's trial: when the whistleblowers revealed the faulty vaccination in 2003, Pugh faked blood tests to convince parents the children had measles antibodies.

Comments

[Sophie Johnson]

I am astonished especially by this one of your lies about Dr David Pugh:

"July 8, 2003: Lifeline Care, Dr. Pugh's clinic, did not prepare the measles vaccine properly."

This charge was not even brought against him: there was no scope for it, since there was nothing wrong with Dr Pugh's vaccine preparations, as the NHS grudgingly admitted.

You speak of dreams? Wake up, then. Realise that Dr Pugh confessed to forgery because the prosecution, not managing to bring a case against him, accused his daughter of it. And the accusation was not retracted until his `confession'.

I wonder about people like you: bad-mouthing hags.

[linda hudson]

4 NOV 2009,MY SON WAS GIVEN ONE INJECTION AT pughs clinic and he was fine i took my son back months after an he had another injection he was not fine this time he was very poorly his leg was so s
wollen and pus coming out of
the leg itook him to the Gp he said he thought had a reaction but later ifound out that it was where the vaccine had not been prepared correctly, the doc who gave the vaccine did not seem to happy about giving him the injection either,
at the time and i felt something was wrong, my son could have died of blood poisening this man is more than a fraudster , he could have caused the death of a child , i dont understand how a docter could do this , my son was very poorly.

[linda hudson]

sorry about spelling and grammer, its a little late and i am ready for bed, i just wanted to say my bit on Dr Pugh.

[bigusdave]

dr pugh treated my whole family for years, he missdiagnosed my son twice over a six month period as having constipation, he had a kidney tumour and had a 1kg tumor removed 5 days after Dr Pugh told us it was constipation. i demanded a copy of his medical records which took over a year to get and several key visits were absent; he forgot he had also claimed for them from my medical insurance so they were easy to prove as actual. this man is a quack and a fraudster