Simone Smith
On April 30, 2021, Ontario’s physician licensing body, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), issued a statement forbidding physicians from questioning or debating any or all of the official measures imposed in response to COVID-19.
They then went on to threaten physicians with punishment, investigations, and disciplinary action.
There are doctors in Canada who are standing up, and regard this recent statement of the CPSO to be unethical, anti-science, and deeply disturbing.
As physicians, they pledged to put their patients first and their ethical and professional duty is always first toward their patients. The CPSO statement orders them to violate their duty and pledge to their patients in the following ways:
1. Denial of the Scientific Method itself: The CPSO is ordering physicians to put aside the scientific method and not debate the processes and conclusions of science.
2. Violation of their Pledge to use Evidence-Based Medicine for our patients: By ordering them not to debate and not to question, the CPSO is also asking doctors to violate their pledge to their patients that they will always seek the best, evidence-based scientific methods for them and advocate vigorously on their behalf. The CPSO is ordering physicians to express only pro-lockdown views, or else face investigation and discipline.
3. Violation of Duty of Informed Consent: The CPSO is also ordering physicians to violate the sacred duty of informed consent – which is the process by which the patient/public is fully informed of the risks, benefits, and any alternatives to the treatment or intervention, before consent is given.
Physicians have a fiduciary duty to point out to the public that lockdowns impose their own costs on society, including: increased depression and suicide rates, delayed investigation and treatment of cancer (including delayed surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy), ballooning surgical waiting lists (with attendant greatly increased patient suffering) and increased rates of child and domestic abuse.
By ordering physicians to be silent and follow only one narrative, or else face discipline and censure, the CPSO is asking them to violate their conscience, their professional ethics, the Nuremberg code, and the scientific pursuit of truth.
“We will never comply and will always put our patients first.”
Canadian Physicians.org
