N.B. doctors suspended for being unvaccinated show no signs of backing down – CBC

Thousands of orphaned patients are still waiting for a promised referral system

Feb 14, 2022

For 10 weeks now, doctors in New Brunswick who refused to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination have not been able to practise medicine, and an untold number of their patients are still in the lurch.

Eleven doctors are suspended, including two specialists. The rest are family physicians.

According to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick, not one suspended doctor has backed down.

“It’s very frustrating,” said Dr. Ed Schollenberg, the college’s registrar.

“We would have hoped physicians would have been more scientifically based in their decisions, but that’s unfortunately not what we’re seeing now.”

Amanda Peacock, a 26-year-old daycare worker, says she was a patient of Dr. Dianne Stackhouse, whose practice in Fredericton and Cambridge-Narrows has been closed.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-doctors-suspended-not-vaccinated-1.6350338