DearDoctor

https://www.covidmedicalnetwork.com/open-letters/first-do-no-harm.aspx

Directors: Dr Eamonn Mathieson, Dr Mark Hobart and Dr Robert Brennan COVID MEDICAL NETWORK
Dear Doctor, Health Professionals and Fellow AustraliansMonday 2nd August 2021

We, your fellow doctors, write to you motivated only by our concern for the welfare of our patients and the health of our community.

Every doctor, like any individual, must answer to their own conscience. Doctors in particular must answer to an Oath, the swearing in of which has fallen away, yet not without leaving its spirit alive. This oath was, and is, founded upon “primum non nocere” or “first do no harm”. And so this letter is aimed at reminding all doctors of our ethical obligations and to furnish our consciences with information so that none can claim “I did not know” or “I was wrongly advised” or “I was just following orders”. The people of Australia face unprecedented, pervasive and coercive “States of Emergency” with severe restrictions to liberty and widespread impacts on health, life and livelihoods. “Flattening the curve” for a few weeks has become 18 months of fear, anxiety and control. Much of it unnecessarily contrived through sensationalist media, failed political leadership that has abrogated its responsibilities to academic and health bureaucrats who appear far removed from the realities and sufferings of ordinary Australians.
In early 2020, the Australian government, following the example of other countries, and the sudden aboutturn of the World Health Health Organisation (WHO), abandoned long-established and existing pandemic guidelines in favour of enforced lockdowns, mask mandates, mass-testing, digital surveillance, border closures and the quarantining of the healthy. This approach was novel, untested and unprecedented.
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