Thu Apr 6, 2023 – 10:03 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The problem with undermining basic ethical principles to preserve power is that they won’t survive. A principle, once undermined, is no longer a principle. So when Australia’s health authorities engaged in what Kara Thomas, secretary of the Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS), described as “severe censure, and punishment” of medical practitioners, it did lasting damage to the ethics of the profession, especially the protection of the doctor-patient relationship.
“[Those] who dutifully use their intellectual freedom and right to political communication to speak what they believe in defence of patients and the public find it costs them their entire career,” comments Thomas.
For those still practicing, an impossible legal conundrum is looming. A letter in January from AMPS to its members outlines a trap in which Australian doctors are caught. It warns doctors that a scheme that the previous Federal Government announced in 2021 to legally protect health professionals was never established. Consequently, the administering of the COVID-19 vaccination is “likely not an indemnified action” the letter warns. “Unlike the case with manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, there appears to be no government liability protection beyond the vaccine injury ‘COVID-19
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