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Medical Council faces legal action over guidance statement – NZDSOS

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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) is taking legal action against the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ).

This action concerns the now revoked Guidance Statement, ‘COVID-19 vaccine and your professional responsibility’ issued to all doctors in April 2021.

The case is being heard in the Wellington High Court on 23 and 24 September, 2024.

The Guidance Statement expected doctors to be vaccinated (unless medically contraindicated).

It stated doctors should discuss the benefits of vaccination with their patients, specifically omitting to remind doctors of their obligations to discuss risks, uncertainties and alternatives as part of informed consent.

Spokesperson for NZDSOS, Dr Alison Goodwin, said some doctors were facing disciplinary proceedings in the form of Voluntary Undertakings, Professional Conduct Committees, Performance Assessment Committees or Health Practitioner Disciplinary Tribunals.

“They had their Annual Practicing Certificates suspended for challenging the government’s COVID response, despite the MCNZ not having received complaints from patients, or providing any evidence that patients or the public were harmed.

“The MCNZ has acted as though its Guidance Statement had the legal status of a ‘Standard’ and used it as the basis for many of these actions.” The Guidance Statement also contained an ambiguous phrase: ‘..that there is no place for anti-vaccination messages in professional health practice…’

This has been used as a basis to discipline doctors who asked questions, raised concerns, and considered that the public was not being given the full story. The MCNZ has still not clarified what an ‘anti-vaccination message’ is, particularly in the context of informed consent where risk-benefit assessments will be different for each person.

The NZDSOS case asks the court to declare that the Guidance Statement was invalid as a ‘Standard’ against which doctors could be investigated and that any action taken in reliance of it is ultra vires.

“It is our view that the Statement did not have the status of a ‘Standard’, and could and should not have been used by the MCNZ in the way it was. “This is a significant case because this Statement changed the profession of medicine by overriding a number of rights of both doctors and members of the public.

“It prevented medical professionals from speaking and sharing professional medical opinions, and prevented members of the public from receiving important information,” said Dr Goodwin.

“We are also seeking a declaration that doctors were, and are, legally able to prescribe long-standing, safe, approved medicines (like ivermectin) as long as the requirements for informed consent are fulfilled.

Through the Guidance Statement, the MCNZ was effectively practicing medicine by recommending all medical practitioners receive a novel medical treatment (i.e. covid vaccination).

The Statement did not document any consideration of the Bill of Rights Act or the Health and Disability Commission Code of Rights, nor any risk-benefit assessment. The doctors taking this action are standing up for the rights of all New Zealanders, to be fully informed and to refuse medical treatment.

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12 COMMENTS

  1. Who received 11000 exemptions? Doctors were definitely involved! And now we are spending more on mental health to a whole lot more of nothing

  2. Did the authorised Doctors and approved vaccinators know the Medical history of ALL patients they vaccinated? If not, why not?
    What advice were the 64 000 reported adverse reaction cases (patients) specifically given prior to receipt of the vaccine?
    Were the adverse reaction reports on-sent from CARM back to the GP to update their individual patient records in order to provide the necessary warnings regarding future boosters or vaccines? Were these patients kept fully informed throughout the process?
    Are patients actually aware their reaction/s or newly diagnosed illness were probable vaccine induced issue/s? Do they know what tests were undertaken, the results, the risks and how their illness will be monitored, treated and managed in the future?
    So many, many questions remain unanswered…

  3. Laudable but a waste of time. There’s no independent judiciary in New Zealand. Australia is a little better but not by much.

    Best way to punish the pricks is to take your expertise elsewhere. I appreciate that’s not going to help local patients but really why would anyone want to stay here long term, when you can see its only going to get worse.

  4. Lets stop pretending that the plandemic was anything more than a corporate conjob designed to cull and collect.
    It was a well planned and coordinated operation which originated from the club of rome.
    It was never about health. Never.
    Now the globalist jigsaw is near completion, the true players are obvious and guilty of mass murder, fraud, treason and deserve death.
    The feckless tv headed mass of parrotting trolls stand guarding the deception as programmed. Their voices diminish as they grow sick and you can smell the hopium on their breath.
    This corporate conjob posing as govt introduced a known toxic and harmful substance into our country.
    Criminal negligence and corruption.
    All the players have revealed themselves now.
    All the projab pro fluoride criminals may now be rounded up.
    Mass murder.
    Mass retardation.
    Lets stop pretending they hold authority.
    Voided long ago by historic fraud/pre meditated mass murder.

    • Three responses come to mind:
      1. ‘They’ will not stop until they are physically stopped. History shows that as an established fact without question.
      2. A majority of people appear willing to stand in line for their next shot. That line will inevitably shorten at either end.
      3. The globalista are engaged in reducing global population to 500M -1B. They assert a notional “25%” reduction now. The slaughter will know no limits until the ultimate goal is achieved.

  5. If the COVID vaccination was safe to mandate surely it would have passed all the safety protocols by 2024 and granted full approval by Medsafe. It seems this vaccination is still being administered under provisional approval. Where are the results of the safety and effectiveness studies aiming for full approval. I read early on that Medsafe were aiming for full approval by 2023. Why has full approval not been granted…..hmmmm where do we start

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