Analysis by Tessa Lena October 15, 2022
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Federation of State Medical Boards is a very influential private nonprofit whose official mission is vaguely defined as “representing the state medical and osteopathic regulatory boards”
- Through their influence and their significant lobbying efforts, they act as a force for censoring and punishing physicians who don’t toe the official party line
- Since 1990s, FSMB has been attacking “alternative” medicine practitioners
- This organization is said to have significantly contributed to the problem of opioid crisis
- Recently, FSMB was exposed by a Dr. Bruce Dooley, an American doctor in New Zealand