Dr Aaron Kheriarty's Testimony
On the consequences of California's censorship of doctors
The California State Legislature proposes, in a recently passed bill awaiting
the Governor's signature, to punish doctors and cancel their licenses for
telling the truth to their patients about the toxic effects of mRNA 'vaccines',
and the availability of safer and more effective remedies for covid/influenza.
The bill as passed was narrowed from an earlier version seeking to punish
doctors for public comments on these matters. Aside from its blatant violation
of the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship, this legislation is
hopelessly vague about what 'misinformation' is, leaving the definition up to
the arbitrary and partisan motivations of officials. It also ignores the fact
that patients already have sufficient malpractice recourse for actual harm done
to them by provably incompetent or willfully negligent medical practice.
The likely consequences of the proposed State interference in the doctor-patient
relationship will be:
1. The legislation will destroy trust in the medical profession.
2. Patients, uncertain whether doctors' advice is in patients' best interest, or
motivated by doctors' fear of punishment, will seek advice from unlicensed or
de-licensed sources.
3. The costs of malpractice insurance will spike upward, due to the arbitrary,
vague, and politically motivated distortion of the basis for malpractice claims
encoded in the legislation. The increased cost of malpractice insurance, already
a large part of doctors' expenses, will drive many doctors out of the practice
of medicine, reducing the supply of doctors. Fees for medical services provided
by remaining doctors will increase accordingly.
4. There will be an exodus of doctors, even those not targeted for punishment,
from California to Florida, Texas, and other States that prohibit Medical Boards
from canceling licenses on the basis of arbitrary, unwarranted, or poorly
defined accusations. This will further reduce the supply of doctors to patients
in California.
5. Since unlicensed practitioners will be unable to write drug prescriptions,
drug consumption will decrease, and/or black market drugs will gain increased
market share.
6. The California legislation will advance further an already-existing division
of the medical profession into two groups, one that gives honest advice
regardless of career consequences and treats patients according to their
clinical experience of what works; another that is bound by fealty to drug
companies in league with regulators.
7. The health status of patients who become more self-sufficient in taking care
of their own health will improve, with reduced consumption of non-essential
drugs. Patients with chronic diseases, serious pre-existing conditions,
life-threatening injuries, and the like, will have no choice but to take their
chances with licensed practitioners who may be compromised by the threats or
actual sanctions enacted by the legislation.