“Around the country, a slew of doctors had board certifications removed and licensure threatened for sharing their COVID-related opinions,” explains The Epoch Times, in an article devoted to one of those persecuted, Dr. John Littell of Florida.
Early in the pandemic, “Dr. Littell, a longtime family physician in Ocala and a medical school professor, began posting videos sharing his thoughts about COVID-19 testing, treatments, and vaccines early in the pandemic,” Natasha Holt’s Epoch Times article narrates. “He was frustrated to find his content often was pulled down from his YouTube channel.”
But the establishment’s efforts didn’t stop there. “[I]n January 2022 and again five months later, he received warning letters from the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), the organization that issued his certification for his medical specialty.”
His videos on YouTube and then the safe, free-speech haven Rumble, spread “medical misinformation,” the board charged, warning that he could lose certification. But these were warnings. The board got a bit more serious and physical when they removed Littell from a public meeting, giving him the bum’s rush.
And then the board de-certified him.
It’s a long story, but appears to have a happy ending, with Littell re-certified and organizing a support group for medical professionals’ free speech rights, and the basic need to practice independent, patient-centered medicine, and to disagree with the gimcrack “consensus” policies that establishment organizations impose.
While there are multiple medical certification boards in America, these are not free-market concerns competing for customers. The government is heavily involved at every level. And the policies and “science” that Dr. Littell and others ran up against were not only political, but wrong — medically and morally.
As we are increasingly discovering.
Which makes medical freedom more important than ever.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Thankfully such unconstitutional transgressions can be rectified and when recognized lead to rules which will not allow their repetition. Sadly the damages to the practitioner and patient victims can never be fully undone.
Medical certification boards that carry water for the government are “medical” in name only. Like the Facedbook censors that censor when one’s opinion or facts doesn’t match their opinion (as they testified and defined their actions in court) AND one’s commentary does too blatant or effective a job of undermining the federal propaganda narrative.