Changing Your Mind Is A Strength Not A Weakness
May this update on my investigation by the General Medical Council embolden more doctors to speak up
This is a story about the value of standing your ground, and never letting THEM (The Hierarchy Exploiting Medics) dupe you into believing they have power over you. Truth wins out.
On 30th September 2021, I gave an invited academic lecture at a philosophical institute in Bath called Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI). As the General Medical Council (GMC) states in its letter to me:
“The Institution is an independent charity that promotes science, literature and art to the City of Bath; tickets for its lectures can be bought by both member and non-members of the Institution.”
The title of my lecture was ‘Covid and the State of Evidence-based Medicine’ and I covered what I knew at the time about early treatments for Covid, as well as the emerging evidence on the Covid-19 vaccines suggesting serious safety issues. I have alluded to this talk and associated investigation in a previous Substack article.
There were probably not more than forty people in the room, with a number attending via Zoom too. Towards the end of the talk, a man’s voice came loudly through the microphone, facilitated by whomever was controlling the Zoom permissions, drowning out mine, and declaring that I should be ashamed of myself for what I had said.
The lovely organiser of the meeting was suitably embarrassed, but it was clear that his feelings were not shared by his masked and furious medical colleague, who had clearly facilitated the heckler’s dramatic outburst. The colleague later denied access to the lecture recording, which was never more widely published as is usually the case for these events.
A couple of months later I was notified by the GMC that I was under investigation for “misconduct” in relation to my lecture at the BRLSI, the allegations being that I “denied the safety of Covid-19 vaccines and spread misinformation about Covid-19 treatments”. The GMC investigation was opened to determine whether I had made “inaccurate and/or misleading comments about Covid-19 and Covid-19 vaccines”.
I received excellent advice from Solicitor Philip Hyland who responded to the GMC quite simply on my behalf pointing out that “taken at its highest there is a substantial body of medical opinion that supports what Doctor Lawrie is saying.”
This week I received the outcome of the GMC’s investigation, which is “closure of the case with no action”. In its letter to me, the GMC noted that:
“During the investigation the GMC obtained a video copy and transcript of the Lecture. During the initial part of the Lecture Dr Lawrie presented her views on the evidence on ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19, later in her lecture Dr Lawrie presented her views on vaccines.
"It was established during the GMC investigation that the advertisement for the Lecture stated that Dr Lawrie was an external consultant to the World Health Organisation, a clinical practice guideline expert, and that she was Director of the Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd and Ebmcsquared CIC. The Ebmcsquared CIC website states that it was established by Dr Lawrie as a ‘a non-profit company in March 2021 in response to the tremendous need for independent and objective health care research and provision, arising out of the Covid-19 health emergency.’
Dr Lawrie’s comments
On 10 February 2022, Dr Lawrie’s representatives submitted that ‘taken at its highest there is a substantial body of medical opinion that supports what Doctor Lawrie is saying.’
Reasons for our decision
As case examiners we must decide whether there is a realistic prospect of establishing that a doctor’s fitness to practise is currently impaired to a degree justifying action on his or her registration.
This test has two parts.
We must decide if the allegations are serious enough to warrant action on the doctor’s registration.
We must also consider whether the allegations are capable of proof to the required standard, namely that it is more likely than not that the alleged events occurred.
In making decisions, we should have regard to the GMC’s objectives. These are to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public; promote and maintain public confidence in the profession; and promote and maintain proper standards and conduct for members of the profession.
Doctors are entitled to hold and express personal views, however they also have an overriding duty to patients and to uphold the public’s confidence in the profession. In the absence of expert or other evidence capable of proving that Dr Lawrie’s conduct was such that public confidence in the medical profession would be undermined, or that it risked the health, safety and well-being of the public, or that it undermined proper standards and conduct for members of the profession, we agree that there is no realistic prospect of establishing evidentially that Dr Lawrie’s fitness to practise is impaired to a degree justifying action on her registration.
Conclusion
For the reasons given above, we have decided to close the case with no action.”
To my medical colleagues out there, I do hope that this will reassure you and encourage you to speak out now.
Please remember, as the GMC letter states, that you “have an overriding duty to patients and to uphold the public’s confidence in the profession”, which is unequivocally at an all-time low. We know how busy you are, that you had little time to do your own investigations, and that being at the frontline of what was communicated to be a deadly pandemic was probably terrifying. We know you were told that the Covid-19 vaccines were safe and effective.
However, now that you know the Covid-19 vaccines are not safe and effective, that they are not the same as traditional vaccines, that there are unprecedented numbers of adverse drug reactions (ADR) reported to the official ADR databases, and that Covid ‘boosters’ are systematically destroying people’s immunity not ‘boosting’ it, please stand up for the truth, uphold your Hippocratic Oath, and do what is right. It is a strength not a weakness to be able to change one’s mind when new information comes to light. We have been waiting for you, now please stand up together with us. There’s undoubtedly a better way forward for health and wellbeing!
A few next steps you can take as a doctor
For doctors in the UK, you will find that www.doctorsforpatientsuk.com is a good starting point for peer learning and support.
Please find further reassurance in this article about GMC complaints related to Dr Aseem Malhotra’s BBC interview in which he called for a halt to the Covid vaccination programme. This interview has been viewed over 20 million times and counting.
If you are considering leaving the NHS and starting private practice, I encourage you to register as a practitioner on World Council for Health’s new community platform, Source. This is an online platform connecting local people with doctors and other health professionals in their area. Registration is free – the only condition is that you agree to abide by the Better Way Charter. We receive requests every day from people seeking doctors they can trust: allow us to direct them to you via Source.
Lastly, everything I said at BRLSI on 21 September 2021 about ivermectin and the safety issues with Covid injections is as applicable now more than ever. I will present an updated version of this lecture, ‘Covid and the State of Evidence-based Medicine’ at the ‘Harmonising Modern Medicines with Natures Remedies’ conference in The Philippines in February. Perhaps I’ll see you there!
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Crikey!!!!
When is this diabolical scandal going to break wide open?!?!?
Billions of people in the world have been pressured, coerced and manipulated to submit to the worse than useless Covid jabs - authentic voluntary informed consent has been trashed!
In Australia, the situation is beyond serious, with the majority of the population jabbed, including children, if the Government's statistics are to be believed: https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/covid-19-vaccines/vaccination-numbers-and-statistics
It's likely that millions of people have been jabbed under mandates, coercively jabbed to maintain their livelihoods, i.e. No Jab, No Job. At the height of the mandates people were forbidden to participate in civil society if they hadn't submitted to dictates to have the jabs, with No Jab, No Travel; No Jab, No Restaurant; No Jab, No Entertainment; No Jab, No Sport etc.
Consider these statements from Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in September 2021:
"There is going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated," Mr Andrews said.
"We're going to move to a situation where, to protect the health system, we are going to lock out people who are not vaccinated and can be," Mr Andrews said.
What do you think about critical thinking people who refused to give their consent to the Covid jabs being 'locked out of the economy'? That is, denied their livelihood and participation in civil society?
This is what happened in Australia, in the state of Victoria, and in other states and territories to varying degrees.
This was facilitated by the medical profession being complicit in the attacks on the 'unvaccinated'.
For example, see this Guardian article published in October 2021 which reported: ""Covid-deniers" and "anti-vaxxers" should opt out of care in the public health system if they catch the virus as Victoria reopens, says the Victorian branch of the Australian Medical Association." https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/21/victoria-ama-says-covid-deniers-and-anti-vaxxers-should-opt-out-of-public-health-system-and-let-nature-take-its-course
Also see this video of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaking about the 'vaccinated economy' - and keeping the 'unvaccinated' out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLqYH3nAAi4
It is unbloodybelievable what has happened in Australia, mandated medical interventions in a supposed liberal democracy...and the medical profession went along with it, an absolute disgrace.
I have tried for almost three years to get people to show me where I am wrong in my understanding of all this. I changed my mind in the early days from believing what I heard on the radio (I never had TV) and trying to show my mother why she was wrong in her own approach. At 82 she would not be uder house arrest and was going out as usual and prepared to lie about her age. This was when the oldies were told to stay at home. In trying to defend my then held position, feeling vulnerable having survived pneumonia three times previously, I looked further and deeper into information that could support my position and win her over to my understanding. The more I looked the more it became abundantly clear that we were being lied to and things were not as portrayed on the radio. I stopped listening to that propaganda and showed my parents what I had found, including your impassioned first video Tess. So very sadly for me in the very short time I found the light and went back to mother to apologise and tell her that I agreed with her, she had been bamboozled by radio4 and had also changed her position 180 degrees.
I have repeatedly asked to be shown how my 'new' understanding is wrong. Believe me, I would love it to be wromg. What diod I get? My mother 'disowned' me and did not speak to me for over two years. My father will not talk to me about 'it' and several friends have cut their connections with me, All they needed to do is simply tell me what was wrong with my understanding. Surely that is the easiest thing to do if they are so right? In the light of better quality evidence I am more than happy to change my mind, as I did before. But it has to be better evidence.
So yes, we need to be ble to change our minds in the face of better evidence. Sometimes changing minds goes the wrong way, as I feel happened with mother. We need also to be able to hold our ground in what we feel sure of. Only time will tell whether mother's or my mind changing was a good move. I believe what I believe, as does she.
Tess, you have been strong and unwavering. Holding your ground as you do has resulted in a great result from the GMC, so far. Keep strong, I know you will.
Thank you.