The article below is a short summary article I wrote for publication on the website of Door to Freedom, which describes itself as “a new organisation formed to help people make sense of a rapidly changing and often confusing world”.
Door to Freedom was founded by U.S. doctor Meryl Nass and launched just over a week ago. It aims to collate and publish information from experts and campaigners around the world relating to threats to our human rights and freedoms we are facing from the WHO, UN and other supranational bodies as they seek to strengthen their power, influence and control over national public health policies in health emergencies. In a series of very readable, short two-minute articles and longer essays, international experts (including Dr. David Bell, James Roguski, Vera Sharav and Dr. Kat Lindley) explore and analyse not just the WHO Power Grab, but also wider issues and agendas which threaten humanity and democracy, such as the climate change agenda, CBDCs, the World Economic Forum ESG scoring system, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the rise of AI, transhumanism and more.
Door to Freedom is still in its embryonic stage and it is encouraging people to sign up for its email newsletter and to share the excellent articles on social media and with friends and family. This valuable information is designed to educate and empower the public to fight the WHO power grab and other sinister and unethical agendas more effectively. Below is a taste of the kind of article you will find on the website – my article summarising the collapse of medical ethics during the pandemic years..
We have a global crisis of medical ethics. In the last three years, under the excuse of the pandemic ’emergency’, we have seen the destruction of the sacred doctor-patient relationship and the violation of fundamental human rights and the ethical principles of informed consent and bodily autonomy. Politicians and health officials have effectively practised medicine on individuals they don’t know, and worse, have done so through enforced Covid treatment protocols and mandated testing, face masks and vaccines, which were required for the public to access basic freedoms and rights such as to work, travel and even to shop.
Medical ethics are vitally important and should be non-negotiable in a civilised society. They exist to hold doctors and medical professionals accountable for their actions and to protect vulnerable patients from abuse and atrocities, recognising the unavoidable power imbalance in the doctor-patient relationship.
When we are considering any medical intervention for an individual, it must be proportionate, necessary and given under strict ethical principles. The Hippocratic Oath, upheld by doctors around the world for over two millennia, states “First, do no harm”. All medical interventions have the potential to cause harm, so doctors must ensure they obtain voluntary and fully informed consent, following a discussion of the risks and benefits to that individual and any alternative treatment options. Healthcare professionals are expected to maintain confidentiality and respect the value and dignity of each person, acting as their patient’s advocate.
Arguably, the time when it is most important to hold firm to ethical principles is in an emergency, as this is the time when abuse and atrocities are most likely to occur. Yet, over the last three years, under emergency laws around the world, we have seen fundamental, long-standing ethical principles and hard red lines abandoned and violated. There have been so many ethical violations that it is hard to know where to begin.
Covid policies restricting and banning visitors for hospital patients led to countless people being cruelly deprived of support from their family and friends during times of suffering, and even being forced to die alone. These policies were disproportionate, unethical and barbaric.
Enforcing the wearing of face masks (which have known physical and psychological harms) and Covid testing for staff, patients and visitors, in order to work or to access healthcare, violates ethical principles and informed consent.
The way in which the Covid vaccine rollout was conducted around the world was shocking in its failure to adhere to normal ethical practices and in the widespread use of glib marketing, coercion and even bribery.
Unbelievably, we have seen Covid vaccines – a completely new technology with no long-term safety data on health, fertility or cancers – rolled out not just to those at most risk from Covid, but to those at little or no risk, including children and even pregnant women. This goes against all common sense and well-established medical practice and ethics.
It was unprecedented that a pharmaceutical product still in the clinical trial phase was administered to children and pregnant women on such a mass scale. That this was done without full disclosure of the known and unknown risks, and with aggressive marketing, seriously undermined the ability of anyone to give full, voluntary and informed consent, and was reckless in the extreme.
Doctors have been prevented from acting in their patients’ best interest. For example, they were blocked from issuing medical exemptions for patients who did not want to have Covid vaccines, and denied access to generic, well-established medications, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, to treat Covid, under threat of losing their careers and livelihoods. Instead, they were forced to practise a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to medicine – blindly following protocols and mandates set by distant bureaucrats with no knowledge of or duty of care to the individual patient in front of the doctor.
This ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach is a dangerous and unethical way to practise medicine. At the heart of the practice of safe and ethical medicine is the doctor-patient relationship, where the patient’s unique medical history, his or her individual risk-profile and personal philosophy and wishes should always be the prime concern of the doctor administering a treatment.
If doctors cannot uphold their oath to ‘First, do no harm’ and are mandated to follow top-down ‘one-size-fits-all’ policies and protocols, they become mere agents of the state, patients are dehumanised and harms and atrocities will inevitably follow. It is urgent that the erosion of medical ethics we have witnessed over the last three years is halted and reversed. It is time for medical professionals to reclaim their profession and ethical values and for patients to demand ethical care from their doctors and nurses.
Dr. Elizabeth Evans is Director of the U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance.
Source: What Happened to Medical Ethics during the Pandemic? – The Daily Sceptic