‘We had no idea’: Unvaccinated B.C. doctor stuns patients over COVID-19 beliefs
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Dr. Sofia Bayfield with the North Shore Medical Group sent an email letter to her patients saying after March 24 she will no longer be able to treat them as she's not vaccinated.
Patients of a North Vancouver doctor will now be looking for a new physician.
Dr. Sofia Bayfield with the North Shore Medical Group sent an email letter to her patients, saying after March 24 she will no longer be able to treat them as she is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Unfortunately, this order will pertain to me (despite having recovered from COVID myself), along with thousands of other health care workers who cannot be vaccinated for very legitimate reasons!” Bayfield wrote in the letter.
She did not give any indication as to the reasons why she cannot be vaccinated.
“I will no longer be able to see patients in my family practice as of March 24th, nor do any form of telehealth medicine. I will not be able to practice as a physician in this province AT ALL!!” the letter continued.
“Because I am unable to be vaccinated, this order will affect not just me and my ability to provide for my family, but all of you who are or have been my patients, as well as patients in the future who would have otherwise been served by myself as a physician.”
The Provincial Health Order was finalized Monday night but while Dr. Bonnie Henry previously mentioned a deadline of March 24, the order posted online said “registrants for whom vaccination status is not found must provide vaccination records to their college by March 31, 2022.”
Bayfield states this deadline comes as more than 90 per cent of the population being vaccinated didn’t prevent “the huge wave of cases and hospitalisations (sic),” that the number of people in hospitals in the last two months “have been more than double the numbers seen during the worst phase of the Delta wave.”
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