A doctor has revealed how a two-year suspension on his medical licence after speaking out against the Covid vaccine cost him almost everything he had.
Queensland’s Supreme Court recently handed back Dr William Bay’s medical licence after it was suspended by the state’s Medical Board for criticising Covid vaccines, which sparked complaints from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Representing himself Dr Bay, 46, was up against 10 opposing lawyers, including King’s Counsels Angus Scott and Felicity Nagorka, but was able to convince Justice Thomas Bradley that all the accusations against him were ‘entirely unfounded’.
Before his licence was suspended in August 2022, Dr Bay was working as a trainee GP at a clinic as well as doing private house calls and medical teleconferences.
Despite his legal victory, Dr Bay said he was unlikely to get his job back at the clinic because professional development organisation, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), has ‘kicked him out’.
‘They said even if I was to be found innocent they would never let me back in,’ Dr Bay told Daily Mail Australia.
‘That puts a spanner in the works about resuming one’s career.
William Bay with his beloved 2020 Mini John Cooper Works Clubman, one of the possessions he lost in his long fight to get his medical licence back
Having been unable to work in medicine forced Dr Bay to sell all his assets and eventually become an UberEats delivery driver
‘The animus as the judge described concerning AHPRA is very real and it is not just contained to AHPRA and the Medical Board. The establishment is out to get me.
‘The whole purpose of their college was supposed to look after me, to guide me. Rather than providing support they excluded me. It’s pretty vindictive really.’
Dr Bay still has the option of practicing privately and charging patients directly, but may have difficulty billing through Medicare.
The two years he has spent fighting to regain his licence cost the father-of-two his marriage.
It has also left him becoming an UberEats delivery driver during the last few months to survive.
‘I had to sell my house, my car and all my assets,’ he said.
The most ‘traumatic’ material loss was his car, a gleaming 2020 Mini John Cooper Works Clubman.
In May 2023, Dr Bay was also thrown in jail for a night after staging a protest with supporters outside the AHPRA offices in central Brisbane.
Dr Bay outside Queensland’s Supreme Court where he won back the right to practice medicine after having his licence suspended for two years over criticising the Covid vaccines
After being charged with disobeying a police direction to stop the protest Dr Bay, who wearing his medical uniform and wielding a megaphone, was thrown in a community holding cell overnight.
Police told him they would let him out but only if he promised not to come into the city to protest again but Dr Bay refused.
‘I was locked in with violent criminals and rapists,’ he said.
‘There was blood on the walls, faeces on the floor and urine everywhere.’
A magistrate threw out the charges the next day with Dr Bay making no commitment to stay away from the centre of city.
Dr Bay, who is a former Queensland Open chess champion and held various jobs before becoming a doctor, was sceptical of vaccines even as a medical student because he is ‘a big believer in the power of the human body and mind to heal itself’.
He first suspected something was wrong with the Covid vaccines when he, along with all other medical professors, received a March 9, 2021 email from APHRA and medical boards warning they could face legal repercussions for questioning the jabs.
The email warned ‘any promotion of anti-vaccination statements or health advice which contradicts the best available scientific evidence or seeks to actively undermine the national immunisation campaign … may be in breach of the codes of conduct and subject to investigation and possible regulatory action’.
Dr Bay was arrested and thrown in jail overnight for staging protest in the centre of Brisbane
Dr Bay said the entire basis of his suspension was this ‘gag order’.
‘Not only did they threaten me they followed through and I was out of work for two and a half years,’ he said.
‘I could not work in any role that any linked to health care.
‘Their internal tribunal and suspended me not for any clinical problems, not any medical problems, not for any patient complaints purely for five complaints about my speech which was criticism of them, the government and the Covid vaccines.’
AHPRA has previously denied to Daily Mail Australian that the notice should inhibit doctors in performing their duties.
‘Doctors do not need to be afraid to take notes about the vaccine,’ a spokesman said.
‘It is good medical practice and a professional obligation for doctors to make accurate medical records.
‘We encourage practitioners to discuss the various vaccines with their patients and use their professional judgement and the best available evidence to help the patient make the safest choices.
‘The Boards’ expectations of registered health practitioners in relation to vaccination and public health matters is not new and predates the COVID-19 pandemic.’
Dr Bay said he began seeing severe vaccine side effects that occurred hours after getting the Covid jabs or sometimes the next day.
‘I was seeing blood coming from different parts of the human body from the nose, the mouth, from the anus that I normally wouldn’t be seeing in normal patients,’ he said.
‘I was having to attend people’s home up to seven times a night for chest pain. I saw cardiac arrests. I saw patients dying several hours after having the vaccines. I saw people immobilised. I saw children incapacitated and unable to move.’
He said what was even worse was that some of the same patients were being told by emergency department doctors the symptoms were ‘all in their mind’.
‘Yes, the injuries were bad but what really was upsetting me is that these patients seemed so psychologically harmed by being gaslit by the doctors in emergency department when they got there,’ Dr Bay said.
The Health Department states on its website that Covid vaccines ‘have been thoroughly assessed by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and found to be safe and effective’.
‘The TGA checks all Covid-19 vaccines for quality, safety and effectiveness before approving them for use in Australia,’ the department said.
‘This is the same process that all vaccines go through in Australia. Medical experts at the TGA continuously check all vaccines to make sure they are safe.’
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