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Australian Doctor Says Farewell to the Fascist Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

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  • Australian Doctor Says Farewell to the Fascist Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

    Read this open letter to AHPRA from an anonymous Australian doctor who is resigning 20 years earlier than she had anticipated. In its response to Covid-19, she says:

    My first lessons at university were about empathy, respect, medical autonomy and informed consent. I was taught to always include a treatment option to “do nothing”. I was also taught that I need not understand or agree with a patient’s decision, but I am morally and ethically obliged to respect and abide by it.

    I cannot accept that it is okay for health professionals to refuse to treat patients based on their decision to not consent to a medical procedure – especially one that remains a medical trial with no long-term safety data. I cannot believe that elderly patients have had to wait outdoors during winter because they have a mask exemption. I am horrified that a cardiologist has refused to see an unvaccinated patient even though their appointment was to discuss valid concerns about the vaccination due to their cardiac history. Likewise, a skin specialist refused to see a little girl, and a young boy was turned away from a private hospital to have his open head wound repaired because their parents were unvaccinated (both of whom were single mothers).

    What is taking place is abhorrent, unethical and inexcusable.

    As my regulation body, you should be insisting that your practitioners act ethically, morally, and respectfully at all times and not simply in line with state government mandates. These mandates appear to breach the Nuremberg Code, the Geneva Convention, the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Magna Carta and Australia’s Constitution.

    I cannot accept that our government can mandate any medical procedure, ever. As my 16-year-old told me when I got home from work one day recently, our government is breaching all of our human rights. (He had decided to look them up himself, unprompted – a proud mum moment). When exactly did we sell our souls and morals?

    I cannot accept that my children or yours need to have a medical procedure to play sports, go to the cinema or work. How can we mandate this treatment when no one can possibly answer questions and concerns about long-term or intergenerational health impacts? The data quite simply does not yet exist.

    When a patient arrives for a medical procedure and says they are only having it to keep their job, that is not fully informed consent. Any practitioner who continues with that medical procedure breaches medical ethics. Check the immunisation handbook: it’s right there in black and white.

    I cannot accept that the scientific community is prevented from engaging in open and honest debate or that any medical practitioner who speaks against public health advice is suspended, defamed or discredited.

    There appears to have been little to no messaging on ways to boost one’s natural immunity and improve overall health, leaving people in a better place to fight any illness if necessary.

    Moreover, there appears to have been little to no emphasis on early treatment options.

    I cannot accept that schools are requiring children wear yellow wristbands to identify those who have mask exemptions or are unvaccinated.

    I flatly refuse to participate in this nasty and divisive two-tiered society that you have helped endorse.​
    This article was first published (https://blog.canberradeclaration.org...octor-resigns/) in The Canberra Declaration (Dec, 2021).
    "Know thyself and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe"
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