A health care provider who falsely claimed a stroke patient died because of this of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the previous Fountain Valley Regional Hospital is facing disciplinary motion from the Medical Board of California.
Dr. Tam Ky Nguyen, an internal medicine specialist from Garden Grove, was charged by the board in September with gross negligence and failure to take care of adequate records regarding the allegedly erroneous claims and COVID-19-related diagnoses of two other patients at Fountain Valley Regional.
Nguyen previously had his clinical privileges revoked in 2021 after he sent worrying coronavirus messages to officials at Fountain Valley Regional, which UCI Health owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp. in March together with three other Southern California hospitals. had bought.
Reached by phone Wednesday, Oct. 9, Nguyen declined to comment and referred Southern California News Group inquiries to his attorney, who didn’t immediately reply to emails and phone calls.
UCI Health declined to comment on the medical board's allegations because they were made before the acquisition.
“Dr. Tam Ky Nguyen is not and was not an employee of UCI Health,” said spokesman John Murray. “As a resident doctor in his own practice, Dr. Nguyen does not have the privilege to practice or treat patients at UCI Health – Fountain Valley.”
Nguyen, who has been licensed by the medical board since 1996, is allowed to challenge the board's allegations in a hearing much like a trial and presided over by an administrative law judge.
After the hearing, the judge writes a proposed decision, which is forwarded to a panel of doctors for review. The members of the panel are accountable for making the ultimate decision on disciplinary matters and should either accept, modify or reject the advice.
If the medical board's investigation ends in disciplinary motion, Nguyen's license might be publicly reprimanded, placed on probation, suspended or revoked.
The medical board began investigating Nguyen in September 2021 after receiving a report from Fountain Valley Regional alleging he didn’t undergo a psychiatric evaluation and failed to fulfill admission requirements.
The investigation included a review of Fountain Valley area records and interviews with several witnesses who worked with Nguyen.
According to patient records, Nguyen described a 67-year-old woman's diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia in July 2021 as a possible adversarial response to the Pfizer vaccine she received two months earlier, the medical board said.
Nguyen allegedly prescribed the girl the antimalarial drug Plaquenil, whose U.S. emergency food and drug approval was revoked in June 2020, well before her hospitalization, since it showed no profit in speeding recovery from COVID-19.
Medical records reportedly indicate that a physician who deals with infectious diseases beneficial that the patient stop taking Plaquenil.
In response, Nguyen allegedly documented that he as a substitute administered Plaquenil for the patient's rheumatoid arthritis, without consulting health workers, at twice the utmost dose.
Nguyen also allegedly advised the girl, who was at high risk for COVID-19, to avoid the coronavirus booster shot, which represented an “extreme deviation” from the usual of care, the medical board said.
In one other case, Nguyen reportedly diagnosed a 58-year-old woman who was hospitalized after a stroke with a sudden adversarial response to the Moderna vaccination. After her death on May 19, 2021, Nguyen listed the reason for death within the documents as respiratory and multi-organ failure from the Moderna vaccine without “evidence or objective information,” which constitutes gross negligence, the medical board said.
Additionally, Nguyen reportedly stated in his medical records that a 66-year-old man admitted to Fountain Valley Regional in July 2021 for pneumonitis, pneumonia, coughing up blood and experiencing flu-like weakness was affected by “possibly… undesirables.” Autoimmune response to COVID-19 vaccination.”
The documents also include a note from Nguyen advising the patient to avoid further COVID-19 vaccinations, the medical board said.
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