Doctors Could Be Struck Off For Questioning Government Line on Lockdowns and Vaccines Under New Guidance
Doctors who criticise vaccines or lockdown policies on social media could face being struck off if regulators rule they are guilty of spreading ‘fake news’, according to new guidance from the GMC. The Telegraph has the story.
The core guidance for medics has been updated for the first time in almost a decade to cover media such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The rules on use of social media include a duty to be “honest” and “not to mislead”, as well as to avoid abuse or bullying.
The draft regulations from the General Medical Council (GMC) – which the watchdog describes as a 21st-century version of the Hippocratic Oath – also say doctors must speak out if they encounter “toxic” workplace cultures that threaten patient safety. And they say medics must take action if they encounter workplace bullying, harassment or discrimination.
The watchdog regulates doctors, who can face a range of sanctions – including being struck off the medical register – if they are found to have failed in their duties.
Charlie Massey, the Chief Executive of the GMC, said… the fundamental principles of the guidance remained the same, but had been updated to reflect the modern world.
“We’ve had feedback that doctors want more clarity on using social media. We are already clear that doctors must be honest and trustworthy in their communications, and are now emphasising that this applies to all forms of communication. The principles remain the same whether the communication is written, spoken or via social media,” he said.
The use of social media by medics has become an increasingly vexed issue during the pandemic, the report adds.
In December a judge ruled that the GMC’s interim orders tribunal had made an “error of law” when it ordered a GP accused of spreading misinformation to stop discussing Covid on social media.
Dr. Samuel White, who was a partner at a practice in Hampshire, raised concerns about vaccines and claimed “masks do nothing” in a video posted last June.
The GMC’s Interim Orders Tribunal imposed restrictions on Dr. White’s registration as a result. But the High Court said this decision was “wrong” under human rights law.
He had claimed “lies” around the NHS and Government approach to the pandemic were “so vast” that he could no longer “stomach or tolerate” them.
In August, the tribunal concluded Dr. White’s way of sharing his views “may have a real impact on patient safety”. It found Dr. White allegedly shared information to a “wide and possibly uninformed audience” and did not give an opportunity for “a holistic consideration of COVID-19, its implications and possible treatments”.
But the GP’s barrister, Francis Hoar, argued the restrictions imposed on his client’s registration were a “severe imposition” on his freedom of expression.
The draft guidance says doctors can be held accountable for promoting misleading information or stepping outside areas of their expertise. They are told to “be honest and trustworthy … make clear the limits of your knowledge.. [and to] make reasonable checks to make sure any information you give is not misleading.
“This applies to all forms of written, spoken and digital communication,” the draft guidance states. And doctors are warned that online rows and trolling could jeopardise their professional futures.
It is of course outrageous that medics should be at risk of losing their career for questioning on Twitter the Government line on its draconian public health interventions. If there’s one thing we were lacking during the pandemic it was not an excess of conformity amongst doctors. The right of medics to ‘informed dissent’ should be strengthened, as per the High Court ruling in favour of Dr. White, not weakened.
On the other hand, there are plenty of Government advisers I can think of who could do with being penalised for “stepping outside areas of their expertise”. Somehow I doubt anything similar will ever be applied to them, however.
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‘If there’s one thing we were lacking during the pandemic it was not an excess of conformity amongst doctors.’
Well said. This was a dark, dark period for medicine in general and a period in which the limitations of doctors were gravely shown up. As Will’s comment implies, doctors seemed to act as automatons, blindly following the protocols even though these caused all kinds of harm and in many cases ruined people’s lives. They were seemingly unprepared to do any of their own reading or research; and this was just over covid protocols. Then there’s the ‘vaccines’ of course; through this programme their lack of due diligence crossed over into outright criminality. Personally, I will never trust a doctor or a hospital ever again to do anything beyond mend a fracture. Their arrogance, stupidity and unquestioning religious faith in the pronouncements of their superiors was simply disgusting.
“Professional” = primary duty of care to patient.
“Employee” = primary duty of care to employer.
“State employee” = primary duty of care to State.
“State employee under threat of de-registration for dissent” = slave.
Not to mention expected new arrangements with the WHO next month – the state s by the WHO and the WHO is owned by the CCP and Bill Gates. We could have Shanghai situation in months
In 2020/21 GAVI comes in at 6th, China at 10th, Germany 1st , Bill 2nd, USA 3rd.
“As Will’s comment implies, doctors seemed to act as automatons, blindly following the protocols” Exactly. I remember watching a Dr Peter McCullough video when he talked about how he and his colleagues responded to the pandemic. It made perfect sense to me. They didn’t wait for guidance from the National Institute of Health or a treatment protocol to be agreed nationally – they looked at the symptoms that people with COVID were suffering, looked at the existing medicines available for respiratory illness, fever and blood clotting, and used them, in combination where necessary. Over a period of weeks they tried different medicines, combinations and approaches, discarded those which didn’t seem to help, stuck with the ones that did, and ultimately came up with an early treatment protocol which proved to be highly successful. This just seems to be exactly what any doctor would and should do in this situation. Use their medical training and judgement to come up with a suitable treatment for a novel problem. But many doctors seemed to be either afraid to go against their State or federal guidance, or were prevented from doing so. Same issue in the UK and many other places. Resulting in many… Read more »
But are paid handsomely for saying “
computerflowchart says no”Big fan of McCullough. It seems that there is more room for autonomy in the American medical system. And there was us feeling all superior about our beloved NHS. Until 2020 happened.
Though he and those like him were punished! It’s greatly to their credit that they persisted.
This is mostly available only in clips now – here is the full-length version:
Watch Sen. Johnson’s COVID panel with Drs. Robert Malone, Peter McCullough – ClarkCountyToday.com
The first 40 minutes is dead-air. It kicks in at about 40.25.
Interestingly according to that flowchart although I’m over fifty there is no care path for me as I’m fit as a fiddle no comorbidities and not obese.
I’ve had the convids thrice now, first time a bit rough for a week second time a bit rough for two weeks third time barely noticeable.
I agree completely. I now distrust them on principle. My inclination is to ask them what their attitudes are towards lockdowns, masks and “vaccine” mandates.
However, in Australia no doctor would dare answer honestly for fear of losing their licence. An elliptical language is beginning to develop, as is often the way in totalitarian societies: a way of testing whether or not someone is likely to inform upon you.
Very true. And if I would even go further – I now see doctors as drug dealers completely in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry that captured the university they trained at, the regulators they work under and health service that employs them.
I think calling it a ‘health service’ is now a misnomer. Unfortunately I do not know how to accurately describe it. I heard anecdotal evidence today about an elderly patient who telephoned the GP (imagine! being able to actually speak to one! you’d have a better chance of finding a hen with teeth in my region) complaining of a long standing cough and sore throat – a patient with other long standing illnesses. The GP asked the patient if they had “examined their throat”. The patient is not a doctor. They could “examine their throat” all day but without medical training would not know what is wrong or what to look for. The upshot of the telephone conversation was they were not going to be seen by a GP. Will this be a case of a missed diagnosis now? possibly even some kind of cancer? Who knows. A GP who will not see a patient in person and who does not physically examine them is not practicing medicine. I’m not sure what precisely it is they think they are doing other than some kind of ‘holding operation’, but it is not the practise of medicine. Talk about “threatening patient safety!”… Read more »
“Unfortunately I do not know how to accurately describe it.”
Extortion funded treatment rationing system (fuss=ration).
I think it’s incumbent on all of us to protect our own health by eating well, keeping fit and avoiding pharmaceuticals like the plague. That’s what I’m trying to do and I’m trying to ready my kids for a live without so-called healthcare.
Eating healthily will help, but not for a car crash or falling off a ladder. The UK is turning into a third world dump, but that’s OK because you have doctors and nurses from the third world who fit right in.
Bang on the money CG.
I have been adopting that approach for long before the denial of access to care due to the ‘pandemic’ – I now take the line that whatever “advice” they are offering people I would do the opposite. I don’t trust them and as for the big pharma products they are pushing, no thank you.
I did likewise but one of them married into a family which goes to the doctor at the drop of a hat. The grandchildren, who are pre-schoolers, are good attenders and already have inhalers and various unguents. I am hoping they don’t get vaccinated but not holding my breath.
Urgent care centres in England have been seeing patients face to face over the past 2 years, some of whom have GPs
We don’t have that in my region – all we have is A+E which is swamped because GPs won’t see people in person and the reps of their Royal College have publicly stated that this will not be changing – this is the “new normal”. I am reporting what I and my fellow countrymen are experiencing – the fact that you may not be experiencing it does not mean it is not happening.
Try seeking help from the NHS in Northern Ireland – it was always shambolic before the ‘pandemic’ – to call it an omnishambles now would be to bestow a compliment on it which it does not merit.
“doctors seemed to act as automatons, blindly following the protocols even though these caused all kinds of harm”
Don’t know if this was included in one of the Daily News updates recently, but it’s relevant I think:
Evidence Based Medicine – it was a good idea
25th April 2022
[Until it died]
Malcolm Kendrick
A good read (as ever from Dr Kendrick)
Read Malcolm Kendrick latest blog on evidence based medicine. In my opinion there’s nothing wrong with the concept of evidence based medicine, but the problem is when it becomes prescriptive and the expectation of strict following of NICE guidelines, despite them being guidelines.
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/04/25/evidence-based-medicine-it-was-a-good-idea/
If you knew how they were formulated, and the vested interests who have a major stake in their development, on occasions against the expressed wishes of patient groups who point out that the proposed guidelines not only would not work but could actually cause harm, then you wouldn’t follow the NICE guidelines at all.
Who was it who brought NICE into existence? Antony Linton Blair.
Unfortunately if a clinician goes off piste and goes against NICE guidelines they will be hauled over the coals by their registration body, certainly nurses & midwives would by the NMC.
The words “ Antony Linton Blair” say all we need to know. A truly evil being.
He didn’t create NICE to improve healthcare, but to justify how it would be rationed.
Hi John,
There is nothing wrong with the phrase “evidence-based medicine”. There is everything wrong with what is called “evidence-based medicine”.
It is specifically designed to put drug company drug trials at the top of the levels of evidence.
Levels of evidence are a nonsense because they rate bad evidence higher than good evidence. Badly executed and reported trials and fraudulent ones are higher up than very well documented large case series.
And it completely ignores standard pharmacology rechallenge and dechallenge evidence. A single well-documented spontaneously reported case of rechallenge is the strongest scientific evidence that x causes y.
And three such cases of dechallenge are the equivalent.
So standard pharmacology rates a case series of one higher than a drug company randomised controlled trial.
“A single well-documented spontaneously reported case of rechallenge is the strongest scientific evidence that x causes y.”
That is in the medical context of course when you may not know what normally happens [eg. no controls].
Seeing a car hit a lamp post is the strongest evidence of what caused the damage to the lamp post but you don’t need a rechallenge report for that because you do know what normally happens so you know lamp posts do not spontaneously damage themselves.
I would be writing this in the present tense.
Can’t say I have the slightest idea what’s been going through the average GP’s head over the last couple of years; I haven’t had the opportunity to talk to mine, despite a variety of ailments I’d have liked to discuss. But I certainly know what his gatekeeper – the Cerberus of Orchard Road Surgery – thinks; she thinks it’s her job to make it as hard as possible for me to make an appointment, with the aim, it would seem, of guaranteeing I never get to see a doctor. Simples, as that irritating advert puts it. And she does so love her mask – almost as much as she loves ordering patients to love theirs. I must have disappointed her; she screwed up and threw away, unread, the sheet of A4 I gave her yesterday – you know, the one on which I’d printed the web addresses of 150 authoritative studies showing that masks are no more able to prevent the spread of airborne viruses than King Cnut – that’s Cnut – was able to stop the tide coming in. I must try harder, as I shuffled out, unmedicated.
Everything this disgusting government does is against and detrimental to its own people.
Yes. That’s because it’s not really a government – it’s a corporation that sits under the corporate structure of world governance. It can’t be expected to look out for our interests – we’re not even its customers, rather its resources and products.
Its goods, chattels and soon to be “serfs”!
Will Johnson be exercising his rights under the soon-to-be-revived “Droit de Seigneur” I wonder?
I think you’ll find he already has.
On occasions too numerous to recall
All so very true.
Quite so – note that California is introducing legislation to strike off doctors who dissent in exactly the same way at the same time. As always nowadays, one may not know the scriptwriter, but one can alsways know there is one from the lock-step responses.
In this case, we can see that the hymn sheet is shared by professional regulators and governments, and we already knew their links to Big Pharma, private philanthroligarchs, social media, intelligence services and the press.
‘philanthroligarchs’ – like that term very much!
The GMC are happy to put their names and pictures in the public domain https://www.gmc-uk.org/about/who-we-are/our-chief-executive-and-senior-management-team so are probably ‘only following orders’ as you suggest.
But we have to start somewhere.
Indeed cg.
Don’t eat me! I’m all meat!
“You sure do have a purty mouth”
*sound of zip opening
-David Cameron
It’s the same in the cabal controlled USA Nick… You can’t seriously believe America is being diligently steered by cadaver Biden and his comedy diversity duo side-kick act Kamala? Again Brand’s on it, in California new laws are being introduced to strip doctors of their medical licenses for spreading “misinformation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBH005RSqh4 You know… being 110% committed on message with the WHO/WEF outlook that only the approved vaxxes are safe, effective and the only way of folk gaining true Covid immunity – and thanks to the droves of sold-out obedient medics that are non-questioning and totally matrix compliant, of course their salaries will remain for now secure by toeing the line. It truly seems the new world order globalist fanatics are pushing for a 2030+ world as depicted in sci-fi movie Elysium. Where you say as an “untermensch” – you work on subhuman non-job wages till you ideally fizzle-out and die – pre your welfare needy 50s. While the elites live in a cossetted private mercenary protected gated community of Louis Vuitton/Hermès splendour and Swiss health clinic style best diets and physical support. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBtePb-dGY That’s the new normal folks… BTW, this is an excellent summation of where we dilemma… Read more »
I wonder if there might be any non-compliant nations that might be tempted to take such direct action? If there were, they certainly wouldn’t be popular with the powers and principalities. Goodness me, they might even be accused of misinformation, or worse, demonetized.
Or murdered!
Or dead.
A year or so ago 4 African leaders and one from Haiti died in mysterious circumstances.
Common denominator – all against the jab.
Replacements – those largely in favour.
Absolute heresy to even suggest that perhaps something sinister was behind it.
Rather than the historic British idea that the people own the state. The people are now owned by the government (obvious really when you allow income taxes and state treatment rationing).
This is now just purely repressive Fascism – when will people wake-up?
Add the “On line Harms Bill” and our signing up to the Gates/WHO power grab over enforcing vaccine mandates and our Government is obviously now declaring war on free speech, and real science to try and impose a fraudulent, tyrannical and dangerous narrative – more blatantly political than medical.
Over in Ukraine, Johnson’s ‘democratic’ chum Zelensky has locked up the Opposition leader banned all Opposition parties and taken state control of Broadcast media – he uses the Azov’s as ‘enforcers’ in his sham ‘democracy” the one Johnson is sending the SAS to defend.
Presumably Johnson was in Kiev to see how the next stage of his Tryanny can be rolled-out and look for some experienced recruits for his ‘Riot Police’ to “keep people safe”?
As Dr Vernon Coleman said two years ago “we are at war.”
The government has declared war on the people of this country.
And the sad thing is HP that I would confidently say that about 90% don’t even realise it – they still think there is a deadly virus out there that we need to be “protected from”.
Kate posted an excellent piece the other day on another tread by Denis Rancourt where, in answer to the question of why people are not waking up, he explained that people like us are “freaks of nature”. The 90%are compliant, accepting, non-thinking. We are the ‘freaks, because we question everything, accept nothing, think independently and are not prepared to submit unthinkingly to every dictate because we do our own research. The bulk of the people just sort of bumble through life allowing the likes of the BBC to do their thinking for them.
Until that changes there won’t be anyone waking up and people won’t realise their government is determined to act against their best interests.
Serious change doesn’t need the 90% to do anything. A small group of Barons can change history; the 90% will always follow whoever wins.
Here’s hoping that IS how it does play out Vaxtastic.
If you want an accurate review of what the Ukrainian side show is all about, and thanks to the Russian energy cut-offs we “joe average types” in the UK/EU will in the coming winter months all freeze, starve and basically kiss good-bye to our once survivable lives old normal…
How long can UK plc run on unaffordable oil and gas inputs sustaining commerce and agriculture?
Read this and understand why supporting the right Nazi’s is a good thing and condemning Russian speaking Ukrainians is bad, oh no that’s the BBC point of view… silly me.
https://cf2r.org/documentation/la-situation-militaire-en-ukraine/#
David, Obviously what you describe is not ideal. And the hidden lobbyists clearly are influencing those whose UK political power and control over healthcare and related issues was paid for with our votes. The practical reality with Ukraine is Putin’s Russia is not an idyll of peace, tranquility, freedom and democracy and this war on Ukraine was never necessary for Russia’s security. No one knows Putin’s motives – only what it is claimed they are. Ukraine is having to fight for survival – which is better – that Ukraine fights this war or the European nations fight it? Putin’s original war plan put all nations to the East of the EU on alert for the threat of invasion by Russia. We can see Putin’s scaled back war grabbing land to have a bridgehead to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports cutting Ukraine off from access to the Mediterranean via the Black Sea. UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was quoted saying “It’s incredibly important that the grain that affects us all, the food prices, does get to get out of Ukraine, that the Russians can’t control the Black Sea”. At the moment Turkey controls access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean for… Read more »
Good rulers have the welfare of the people on their heart. With this government I am beginning to think that they do not even consider the people as their people, because I see precious little sign that they actually care about people, corporately and individually. The GMC is beginning to look similar- to me at any rate.
“The people against all the Institutions and the Baronial power- grabbing Corporations”.
They are not really politicians any more – they are just the local managers appointed by the handful of corporations, NGOs and globalists who actually run the world. In the rare situation where a politician manages to get elected who is not loyal to these people, he is either made to become loyal, or cast out into the wilderness like the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Hungary and a few other countries which have dared to diverge.
Or murdered – Tanzania, Burundi.
Or the USA.
Tanzania: after their president was murdered his replacement implemented masks, testing and injections.
His people did not comply.
https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2022/04/globalists-murdered-african-president-but-his-people-still-wont-comply-2686264.html
Mass non compliance works but only if enough people know what is going on. Keep spreading the word.
The GMC is the Spanish Inquisition, according to Dr Malcolm Kendrick. His latest blog:
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/04/25/evidence-based-medicine-it-was-a-good-idea/
It’s descended from Trofim Lysenko
“I am beginning to think that they do not even consider the people as their people”
At least 45% of the Cabinet are not ethnically British.,
“Just because you are born in a stable does not make you a horse.”
It was probably the British Navy that built Britain, but let’s not let facts get in the way.
Adversity Built Britain.
But then fixing the error of state-mandated diversity will take a lot of adversity.
It is adversity that tests us, as individuals and as nations. What we can say about our new diverse nation is the non-British avoided their homegrown adversity to escape to an instantly better world. All those brown people didn’t want to make their own nations and cultures great.
The impulse to flee is rarer among us. In the long run that difference in spirit asserts itself.
This was Vladimir Putin’s very point to the WEF and Klaus Schwab specifically. Leaders who will not look out for the welfare of their people are ultimately doomed.
His subtle message was a rebuke aimed at the technocratic class who are part of the WEF world. They view most people as a peasant class, and Putin reminded them that cannot work.
Needless to say this did not receive wide coverage in the West despite Putin speaking in German.
Is Opinion now known as Fake News.
Not just opinion, but truth.
Patrick Vallance is clearly ‘outside his area of expertise’ talking about Net Zero. He is a total ignoramus on climate science.
Start at the top if we are ‘talking outside areas of expertise’.
And that includes 25 year prison sentences for any ‘expert’ that lies for political reasons. Starting with Peter Horby, Neil Ferguson and several climate charlatans besides.
The draft guidance seems perfectly reasonable if doctors comment as doctors and not as unqualified citizens. If they comment as doctors they give spurious authority to what they write. This applies also if they support the government line. The right to informed dissent holds only if the dissent is really informed, which needs to be demonstrated, not just assumed. The fact that doctors are employees is a problem, but a different problem.
Dissent comes in many forms. It could be along the lines of ‘the evidence for what is dictated does not seem conclusive’ is very different to ‘this should be done instead’. The first rule of medicine is ‘do nothing unless something absolutely needs to be done’. The precautionary principle and all that. You don’t need any medical expertise to know that the ‘vaccines’ with ‘Emergency Use Authorisation’ had not been adequately tested in clinical settings and absolutely had not been tested on either pregnant women nor children. That just requires some basic reading ability and knowing where to find details of clinical trial protocols and outcomes. The only question you need an answer to is: ‘How many people were tested, what were their ages, sexes, state of general health?’ Where the ‘vaccines’ were concerned, no-one on earth had any relevant expertise, as not a single mRNA medicament had ever been injected legally into a human being as a licensed product before 2020. There was lots of expertise in how to manufacture mRNA, how to inject a solution into a human’s arm. There was zero expertise on what the outcomes were going to be, only a set of best guesstimates based… Read more »
You have an awful lot of trust. A quality that has been sorely abused for a considerable time in public circles.
Please address the former Health Secretary by his proper name of Fart Hancockwomble….
‘We are already clear that doctors must be honest and trustworthy in their communications, and are now emphasising that this applies to all forms of communication’.
My GP surgery has a large sign at the entrance that states that face covering measures will remain in place to protect the vulnerable. I feel this is one of the worst of the lies that has been told as it cons people into falsely thinking they are safe from infection when wearing a mask.
Whereas, it should say ‘to reassure the badly-informed’.
Oh, and so they can carry on breathing in microplastics into their lungs instead of tobacco smoke.
Well – you have to kill them off somehow.
Interesting you should mention that.
Out in fresh air yesterday and a guy was walking towards me sucking hard on his cigarette. He finished it and then pulled his face mask up over his mouth and nose. In the fresh air. After inhaling all sorts of crap from his cigarette.
No – it should just say:
“face masks are nothing more than a comfort blanket for those terrified by the government, MSM and the nudge unit”
Your social credit score is based solely on your obedience, not your insight.
The oligarchs want serfs, not citizens.
They are the Master Race, after all.
“They are the Master Race, after all.”
The proof is in the pudding. They’re at the top and have got all the money. If they were stupid they’d be appearing on TV shows such as Big Brother and Jeremy Kyle.
You can forget “medicine” as being a mainly-philanthropic profession, dedicated to curing or alleviating sickness in all persons, governed by rules of behaviour and professional etiquette, but free to investigate, evaluate and discuss the pros and cons of any and all treatments they intend to give to their patients. Foremost amongst this is the identification of any treatment which has, or may, harm (accidentally, or intentionally) any patient, wherever they may be in the UK.
It’s just another politicised branch of government and its numerous quangos, satellites etc. It combines all the horrors of a trade union, a political party and a kangaroo court, and its exemplars are the GMC and BMA, plus the other acronyms.
Medicine has always been a mafia. Everything is quackery until science proves it works, then the medics demand to take it over so they can control it. Acupuncture was quackery when I was a child, now it is mainstream. Chinese herbal medicine is still quackery.
Every single medical rule is that ‘one pure compound is the only way to treat something, until two separate pure compounds are proven to work’.
The thought that a slightly ill-defined extract might work rather better is anathema to reductionist maniacs too obsessed with rigidity and uniformity to understand the wiles of multicellular living organisms.
Herbal medicine is not quackery. Modern drugs are based on herbs and plants, only synthesised to allow big money to be made. Traditional and holistic medicine is far more sympathetic to the whole body and psyche of the individual – and in no small part successful (although modern medicine does it’s best to disparage this fact).
Very well said
Chris Whitty was clearly outside his ‘area of expertise’ when giving medial advice which impinged on an entire economy. He caused up to £1trn of economic armageddon due to his reckless, ignorant, duplicitous and Gates-slave-like advice.
He should be sent to prison for a minimum of 20 years for his behaviour and a National Holiday should be declared the day he is sent down.
He needs to be struck off for giving advice that condemned millions to economic hardship, denied children a childhood, caused absolute mayhem in the NHS, achieved absolutely zero in medical terms and merely solidified his political reputation with the Mengele-style doctor, William Gates III.
All of that earned him a knighthood….
No surprise, since most knighthoods are conferred on those who do what’s required, rather than what’s right.
Chris says he’d love to hear from you!
Room 301, Clinical Research DepartmentLSHTM
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I think the onus ought to be on the GMC to prove that a statement is misleading; if a doctor says that masks do nothing, the GMC needs to prove that they do.
You mean public debate?
Charlie Massey, the Chief Executive of the GMC, said… the fundamental principles of the guidance remained the same, but had been updated to reflect the modern world.“We’ve had feedback that doctors want more clarity on using social media. We are already clear that doctors must be honest and trustworthy in their communications, and are now emphasising that this applies to all forms of communication. The principles remain the same whether the communication is written, spoken or via social media,” he said. This begs the question against those the establishment views as being ‘dishonest’ and ‘untrustworthy’, with those throwing around such accusations assuming a tremendous burden of responsibility in demonstrating their claims. In truth, the scientific method of necessity involves a diversity of views and continuous questioning. Sanctioning those who in all good conscious question some practice merely accentuates the totalitarian hijacking of the scientific method. Don’t agree with us? Giving an alternative view? You’re dishonest, spreading misinformation, untrustworthy, and we’ll ruin you. Which, of course, is decidedly unscientific. In August, the tribunal concluded Dr. White’s way of sharing his views “may have a real impact on patient safety”. It found Dr. White allegedly shared information to a “wide and possibly… Read more »
Perhaps – or perhaps this falls under the same heading as “a lot of [unnamed] people are really upset by X, and this happens to coincide with what we want to make our policy.”
Have doctors too busy to fill in yellow cards for vaccine adverse reactions really had time to write to the GMC about the professional use of social media?
Good points, Jon.
“stepping outside areas of their expertise”
Do the likes of Devi Sridhar actually have any meaningful “area of expertise”, beyond “saying what rich and powerful people want to hear being said”?
Bit late in the game for this move.
Genie, bottle, vacated.
Discharge of patients to care homes unlawful https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-61227709
Case must have been so overwhelming in terms of evidence that the High Court had no choice but to find in the plaintiffs’ favour.
Shame it took them 2 years to find the courage of their convictions when other very well argued cases came before them, but they felt unable to “go against the government’s position” regarding ‘The Science’.
Wonder if it is an issue of timing, in that they feel more confident to actually pronounce on something to do with the “pandemic” (that really never was) now the government has declared it is over?
Doctors struck off by doctators for not having faith in Trofim Lysenko junior.
This is why those in the nursing profession and other healthcare professionals didn’t say anything either. The NMC has a lower level for deciding guilt, it’s based on the civil balance of probabilities rather than criminal beyond reasonable doubt. I’m not sure about the HCPC.
This is a scary situation for the medical profession, will Malcolm Kendrick or Aseem Malhotra be deemed to be spreading false information about the causes of cardiovascular disease?
Of course, as will those quacks saying that obstetricians should wash their hands to prevent puerperal fever.
you do get the feeling the state is ironing out any perceived issues and this covid scenerio was just a kind of simulation to see what needs to be stamped on so that when the next manufactured virus hits, any questioning will be removed from say the Internet and also doctors etc so that the public will be lead along for the next phase. Threatening doctors with the sack if they do not go along with it will do more harm than good as how can people trust what is being told to them if the doctor is fearful of their job.
If nobody trusts their doctor, demand on the NHS will decrease. Job done. It’s so easy to slip into the old thinking that State Institutions are there to benefit the people.
I never met a doctor who told me I was well.
Works both ways – I met plenty of patients who were well, but told me they were ill. I imagine many of them are still walking round in masks.
I did. He was unpopular with patients so if you wanted to see Dr. ****** he usually had appointments available; this was 20 years ago. Most patients even then it seems wanted a quack who would talk to them nicely and prescribe them some pretty pills.
He’s a nice man (now long-retired) who genuinely went into medicine to help others. They’re not all quacks.
What have they diagnosed you as?
The GMC taking their cue from New Zealand, which is currently trying to do the same to Dr Sam Bailey, who you may recall was the subject to a guest writer hit piece (IMHO) on this site and who was given no right of reply in article form.
Is it possible to contract privately with an individual who is medically qualified in such a way as to indemnify him against liability to you as determined by the state?
In other words, it is one thing for doctors to be struck off for incompetence, quite another to be struck off for “thought-crime”.
If state-backed entities are going to go full Orwellian, perhaps it is time to build an infrastructure to allow us to ignore them?
Only a total moron (which there are many of) would believe anything a politician says without questioning what they say first.
Personally I lost all faith and trust in politicians in 2003 (I didn’t have much to start with) when the UK was taken to war on lies. I now assume anything a politicians says is a lie and they are the fake news.
Unless it is officially denied.
“and did not give an opportunity for “a holistic consideration of COVID-19, its implications and possible treatments”.
If he gave Ivermectin as a treatment he’d be struck off anyway.
Isn’t it amazing how these new rules come in all over the world, almost like their is a global cabal of politicians all following the same agenda.
California is imposing just such a system as we speak.
Surely it couldn’t just be a case of “great minds think alike” – like it was with the same playbook being used all over the world to defeat a respiratory virus?
Didn’t think so.
Most in the media including the sceptic GB News subscribe to cock up theory, the idea that once you’ve made the wrong turn you can’t admit it and carry on driving etc. Everything seems to lockstep for my suspicious mind anyway.
They could have got out in summer 2020 and blamed it on a combination of being really cutious and duff advice.
GMC: tendance Stalin, as yer frogs might say.
Wasn’t Earth orbiting the Sun and not being the centre of the Universe fake news at one time. Anyone printing and publishing the Bible in English (misinformation) was burnt at the stake.
Glad we live in enlightened times.
JXB
Off topic but was your moniker inspired by the TV series “Chancer” ?
They should be struck off for going along with the illegal forcing of jabs and lockups that didn’t work.
They are afraid of the truth. Wicked people.
What a country
Doctors who tell the truth about mass murder are silenced whilst Piers Morgan is given a platform