How The Medical Industry Broke Its Own Rules During The Covid Era
In the world of medicine there are certain standards that must be adhered to. These standards also apply to other allied professions such as chiropractic, physiotherapy, or dentistry. In Australia the body that controls registration, practice and ethics is known as AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency). There are rules they have been put in place that practitioners need to adhere to. Read some of them below.
Providing Good Care
3.2 Good patient care
Maintaining a high level of medical competence and professional conduct is essential for good patient care. Good medical practice involves:
3.2.1 Recognising and working within the limits of your competence and scope of practice.
3.2.2 Ensuring you have adequate knowledge and skills to provide safe clinical care.
3.2.3 Maintaining adequate records (see section 10.5).
3.2.4 Considering the balance of benefit and harm in all clinical-management decisions.
3.2.5 Communicating effectively with patients (see section 4.3).
3.2.6 Providing treatment options based on the best available information.
3.2.7 Only recommending treatments when there is an identified therapeutic need and/or a clinically recognised treatment, and a reasonable expectation of clinical efficacy and benefit for the patient.
3.2.8 Informing your patient when your personal opinion (in the context of practice) does not align with the profession’s generally held views.
3.2.9 Taking steps to alleviate patient symptoms and distress, whether or not a cure is possible.
3.2.10 Supporting the patient’s right to seek a second opinion.
3.2.11 Consulting and taking advice from colleagues, when appropriate.
3.2.12 Making responsible and effective use of the resources available to you (see section 7.2).
3.2.13 Encouraging patients to take interest in, and responsibility for, the management of their health and supporting them in this.
3.2.14 Ensuring your personal views do not adversely affect the care of your patient or the referrals you make.
Patient Safety and Minimizing Risk
8.1 Introduction
Risk is inherent in healthcare. Minimising risk to patients is an important component of medical practice. Good medical practice involves making patient safety your first priority and understanding and applying the key principles of risk minimisation and management in your practice. Good medical practice involves:
8.1.1 Working in your practice and within systems to reduce error and improve patient safety, and supporting colleagues who raise concerns about patient safety.
8.1.2 Taking all reasonable steps to address the issue if you have reason to think that patient safety may be compromised.
I’ve highlighted several in bold. Certain established norms of medical ethics have been concerned with prioritizing the patient, not doctors, government bureaucracies or pharmaceutical companies.
In fact, many of the things enshrined in law today came out of the Nuremberg Code, whose purpose was to never again allow human experimentation without the expressed consent of the patient.
The 4 Pillars of Ethical Health Care
The goal of whatever is done must be beneficial.
Do no harm.
There must be patient autonomy.
There must be justice for any harm done.
These four pillars were disregarded and abused during the past three years, and some abuses still exist today.
If we look at AHPRA regulation 3.2.4, which balances benefits and harm, doctors were hauled before the regulators for daring to give patients exemptions from the vaccines when their patients sustained an injury. Doctors were also suspended in some cases for daring to state that the vaccines had side effects. So, 3.2.4 was nullified during Covid.
Similarly, the second pillar of “Do no harm” was shattered when patients suffered ill effects, and doctors kept pushing the vaccines not only on injured patients but also advising pregnant women and small children to take the jabs. That was unconscionable. We don’t allow pregnant women to eat sushi or processed meats. Still, somehow, a new experimental vaccine, which was really a genetic injection, was safe?
Regulation 3.2.13 went out the window. Patients were to ultimately have a responsibility and be encouraged and supported by their doctors. Well, how often was that breached? People could not get surgery unless they made their own health decision not to take the vaccine. Patients were commonly berated by doctors for not submitting to the injections. So, APHRA’s regulation merely gave lip service to the concept of patient autonomy.
Regulation 8.1.2, where patient safety was compromised, what was done? Patients were denied effective medications like Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine, while dangerous medications besides the vaccines, like Remdesivir, were pushed onto patients.
Meanwhile, the 4th pillar of ethics, justice, has not been done, and even more outrageous, AHPRA, along with its allied medical agencies, continues to tout the vaccines as necessary and safe. There is no justice for the vaccine injured. Compensation of several thousand dollars for someone who has lifelong injuries just doesn’t cut it.
The conclusion is that the medical establishment in Australia and other countries has been corrupted. It’s time more people woke up to that fact.
It seems that in today’s world, rules no longer matter. If your name is Trump, you get prosecuted for no reason other than to take you down. If you’re an illegal migrant, you get money and a phone. Suppose you’re a doctor using your knowledge and experience to do the best for your patients. In that case, you’re demonized and have to fear retribution. What an upside-down world!
No doubt that the medical establishment has been corrupted... and more than that, totally bought.
I'm a retired clinical psychologist, so very aware of AHPRA's power.
AHPRA's intimidation of health practitioners during the covid era - and continuing to this day - is appalling.
And yes, truly, it violates all those stated principles of health care, ethics, and good practice.