Child sex offender retains medical license while ‘misinformation’ doctors face suspension
California physician Dr. Bruce Hensel Monday pleaded no contest to one count of contacting a minor to commit a felony, referring to his solicitation of nude photos from a nine-year-old girl in 2019.
Hensel, a former NBC medical correspondent and Emmy winner, will not serve jail time. He was sentenced to two years’ probation and must register as a sex offender. He and the girl’s father, who is an acquaintance, embraced in the courtroom following Hensel’s plea.
As a board-certified physician in internal and emergency medicine, Hensel is now forbidden to treat minors, to opine on pediatric health, or be in the presence of minors without guardian approval.
But according to the California Medical Board’s website, the doctor’s medical license remains current and in effect. While an accusation was filed in March 2022 to revoke Hensel’s license, he “has not had a hearing or been found guilty of any charges.”
Frontline News asked the CMB what action would have been taken had Hensel prescribed ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to treat early-stage COVID-19, or if he had questioned the COVID-19 vaccine. The CMB refused to provide comment.
The CMB, headed by attorney Kristina Lawson, has been rabidly against medical dissent — even deputizing California citizens to inform on physicians for “COVID-19 misinformation” — while remaining particularly forgiving toward physicians who sexually assault their patients.
According to a Los Angeles Times report, “. . . 10 of the 17 physicians who lost their licenses for sexual misconduct and petitioned for reinstatement since 2013 succeeded, board data show — a rate of 59%.”
In December 2021 the Los Angeles Times reported on Dr. Esmail Nadjmabadi, a California doctor who sexually abused six patients, one of whom he also reported to immigration officials for being an illegal alien. Nadjmabadi eventually surrendered his medical license, but the California Medical Board later reinstated him as a physician without input from his patients.
Dr. Zachary Cosgrove is another California doctor who sexually abused three patients and was addicted to crystal meth. After they reported him, Cosgrove threw furniture at one, kicked and punched another and verbally abused the third. The Medical Board has still not revoked Cosgrove’s license and he is still practicing medicine.
Dr. Anshul Gandhi, a physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, was found guilty of sexual battery against four women. The California Medical Board did not even suspend Gandhi’s medical license.
But several physicians who have successfully treated patients for COVID-19 without the federal government’s prescribed “medication” face investigations by the CMB. They include psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald and physician Dr. Douglas McKenzie, who merely expressed medical opinions unapproved by federal science.
