Posted on 03/27/2023 2:51:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Monterey pediatrician known for his anti-vax beliefs, Douglas Hulstedt, has lost his medical license in the wake of a dramatic custody battle case Hulstedt was a part of, one that even he publicly called “fairly grisly.” In that case, a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed by his father who in turn killed himself, after the father was ordered by a judge to present his son for routine childhood vaccinations in 2021. Hulstedt advised the father that such vaccinations were dangerous.
The California Medical Board filed an accusation against Hulstedt last year for gross negligence due to “lacking basic medical knowledge” and repeatedly providing written vaccine exemptions for the boy between 2014 and 2020. On Nov. 8, 2022, the board held a hearing resulting in his license revocation, which included ordering Hulstedt to pay $20,000 in fines and $49,560 in reimbursement of the board’s investigation costs. Hulstedt tried and failed to stop the revocation, which delayed it being formally entered and announced publicly until Feb. 27.
Hulstedt, representing himself, argued during the hearing that his actions caused no harm to the child. “To the contrary,” Administrative Law Judge Juliet E. Cox wrote in her decision, “respondent not only delayed [the child’s] receipt of immunizations that would have protected” the child and community from diseases, “but also contributed to conflict between [the child’s] parents.”
Last fall Hulstedt filed two lawsuits against the Medical Board in which he claimed numerous miscarriages of justice using an explosion of nonsensical legal terms. The case is pending a motion by the state to dismiss. Hulstedt continues to file documents – in one filed March 16, Hulstedt made “criminal-claims” against California Secretary of State Rob Bonta for allegedly lying and denying Hulstedt due process. He copied myriad state and federal officials, including U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and, inexplicably, a military post office in Virginia.
Hulstedt followed a similar playbook prior to and during the Medical Board hearing in November, according to the revocation decision written by Cox. Hulstedt “barraged” attorneys representing the state by mail “with documents that did not state any cognizable pre-hearing motions,” she said. During the hearing Hulstedt demanded the judge and the state’s attorney answer “irrelevant or incomprehensible questions, and asserted the same objections over and over.”
Attempts to reach Hulstedt were unsuccessful. During the Medical Board’s investigation last year, Hulstedt repeatedly refused to hand over medical records, another violation. “The Medical Board has been out looking for scalps for anyone that has written medical exemptions,” he said during a podcast in April 2022.
Hulstedt said that he was justified in writing exemptions for the child based on his medical history. In the decision, Cox pointed out that other doctors who had examined and tested the child found there was no reason he couldn’t be safely vaccinated.
God bless him for standing his ground. Amen.
...and repeatedly providing written vaccine exemptions for the boy between 2014 and 2020
So maybe the doc was actually anti-vax in the real original and not muddled sense? Or maybe these were some cases where there were good reasons for the exemption and the doc was being punished for being anti-jab for those that keep pushing the narrative that the jabs are vaccines.
Uh, you don’t walk into court without an attorney, even when you know you’re right.
“repeatedly providing written vaccine exemptions for the boy between 2014 and 2020.”
So writing exemptions for all childhood vaccines, not just Covid. Unless this child had an actual adverse vaccine reaction or allergies, this doesn’t speak well of the doctor’s professionalism.
Sounds like a nut.
AndyTheBear wrote: “the doc was being punished for being anti-jab for those that keep pushing the narrative that the jabs are vaccines.”
The Covid vacccines are vaccines and the are fully approved.
We've stayed away from a lot of the ever-growing list of the "standard" vaccinations, and our kids are grown with healthy kids of their own.
It started when they smeared something on one of our kids' eyes right after birth--and it turned out it was some anti-syphilis goo the nurse said was required by the State--since every mother has to be assumed to be a crack whore, I guess, so actual crack whores don't feel singled out.
The eyeball smear and some of the conventional jabs we learned were unnecessary because the diseases were impossibly rare, were only a problem if you hang around sewage and never wash your hands, or weren't a big problem if you contracted them.
Like chicken pox. Everyone in my generation got chicken pox. It's trivial, and then you're immune to it. Who cares?
Yes, this what we need, because a ton of doctors gave misinformation. I wonder how many patients died from suggesting the jab itself.. all these doctors need to lose their license
“ Like chicken pox. Everyone in my generation got chicken pox. It’s trivial, and then you’re immune to it. Who cares?”
Sadly, though it’s trivial for many, it isn’t trivial for everyone - pneumonia, encephalitis, subsequent bacterial skin infection, etc.
Vaccination against chickenpox (varicella/zoster) also greatly reduces the risk of getting shingles later in life.
Given what we now know about the “Covid Vaccine” maybe the California Medical Board should be the one facing legal issues.....
Bullshit!
The medical “authorities” once believed in bleeding as a cure and punished doctors for believing in cleanliness to fight infections.
Experts have been proven wrong before.
Maybe no attorney wanted to risk being barred from medical treatment.
Oh great. A doc who exempts a child from getting shots against polio and chickenpox. Just what we need
Yup
Chicken pox is not trivial
Chicken pox is trivial for almost everyone. Of course there are unfortunate immune compromised children for whom any illness can potentially be deadly; but they are a very small fraction of the general population.
As for shingles, it is easily cured by an adequate amount of vitamin C. That was published in 1950 by Dr Mohamed Zureick ( Zureick M. [Therapy of herpes and herpes zoster with intravenous vitamin C.] J Prat Rev Gen Clin Ther. 1950 Nov 30;64(48):586. PMID: 14908970.) Dr Zureick reported curing shingles in 327 patients with vitamin C within 72 hours. The very large problem with vitamin C as a drug is its extreme lack of profit for Big Pharma.
My friends he can and should take it all the way to SCOTUS. Isn’t THAT the problem? Layers of time consumption-nothing else. In the meantime this on the left who push the envelope don’t have to work as hard. They just charge us and everyone else with whatever ails them and we HAVE to respond. Ah I wish Pinochet were running things. Does Lia Thomas deserve the time of the day?
hoosierham wrote: “The medical “authorities” once believed in bleeding as a cure and punished doctors for believing in cleanliness to fight infections. Experts have been proven wrong before.”
Those who oppose vaccination are today’s version of those who believed in bleeding or opposed cleanliness.
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