2023-12-14 05:57:22
Medical professionals in the United Kingdom are outraged by the appointment of Michael Dixon as head of the royal household’s medical team, although the veteran doctor has a long career in public health, supports unconventional therapies, such as homeopathy and laying on of hands
Although homeopathic medicines were withdrawn from the British public health system as placebos in 2017, as they work more by suggestion than by their active ingredients, Dixon supports alternative medicine treatments.
According to the Telegraph: Dixon defends himself by stating: “I have a team of doctors who cover the different Royal Households and also a team of specialists and I am really responsible for looking after the Royal family. “I mean, clearly, there are some elderly patients on our records, so it probably takes one or two days a week.”
According to Daily Mail, Michael Dixon has held the position in the royal household for about a year.
Michael Dixon: new chief doctor
The new head doctor of the royal family is 71 years old, married to an artist named Joanna and has three children, two of whom are also doctors. Michael Dixon studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Oxford, later studying medicine at Guy’s Hospital, working in general medicine since 1984.
Dixon still sees patients two days a week at his practice in Devon and is president of the Faculty of Medicine, an organization that promotes complementary medicine, such as aromatherapy. Something that has been condemned by medical professionals in the United Kingdom.
The news has also not been well received in the media, with the Sunday Times commenting: “He once invited a Christian healer to his surgery to treat chronically ill patients and experimented with prescribing an African bush called devil’s claw for shoulder pain. , as well as horny goat weed for impotence.”
Prior to Dixon, the position was held by Sir Huw Thomas
. A renowned professor of gastrointestinal genetics at Imperial College London. Sir Thomas was the personal physician to the late Queen Elizabeth II. In addition, he was part of the team that attended Kate Middleton during the birth of Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, in 2015 and 2018, respectively.
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