MEDIA
RELEASE
Thursday,
October 7, 1999
For
Immediate Release
AVN
Hosts A Demonstration Against Bribes
In a
financial climate where hospitals are cutting back on services, closing beds, or closing
down altogether, it seems quite ironic that the government has chosen to offer yet another
bribe enticing doctors to force parents to vaccinate.
A meeting
that is openly paid for by one of the most influential vaccine manufacturers, SmithKline
Beecham, will inform doctors how by increasing their practice vaccination rate, they can
rake in more money. The meeting, held
tonight, Thursday, October 7 at the Ballina Island Motor Inn, will tell doctors the ins
and outs of the GPII and ACIR bribes currently offered and the recently established PIP
bribe.
The Australian Vaccination
Network (AVN) will be holding a demonstration this evening in front of the Ballina Island
Motor Inn. Members will be coming from as far
away as the Gold Coast to tell doctors and vaccine manufacturers that this corrupt
behaviour will not be tolerated. We
will be handing out information to those who attend and asking that doctors do what they
have done for centuries be motivated by care for their patient not by the
profits those patients can bring in. Our
placards will have photographs of children and adults who have been either killed or
injured by vaccines. We will simply ask them
to abide by the Hippocratic Oath which they have all sworn to First, Do No Harm.
says Meryl Dorey, President of the AVN.
If doctors were being
paid money to spend more time fully informing parents of the benefits and risks of
vaccination, we would have no complaints. Ms Dorey says. To pay them to coerce
and misinform parents, however, is unethical. No
doctor should have a financial interest in a therapy they are supposed to recommend based
on the best care for their patient. The cosy
relationship between the medical community and pharmaceutical companies must also cease. We saw it with the tobacco companies and the drug
companies are the same they are motivated by profits not by health.
Meryl W. Dorey,
President
The Australian Vaccination Network, Inc.
PO Box 177
02
6687 1699 Phone
Bangalow NSW 2479
02
6687 2032 FAX
meryl@avn.org.au
http://www.avn.org.au
"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is
violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
(Schopenhauer)
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