A group of Slovenian doctors has stood up against the national corona policy. Because no major national media house covers corona critically, in September 2020, with the help of various activists, they recorded a professional but underground open debate “The Doctors with Conscience speak up about COVID-19.” Soon afterwards, the highest political and medical authorities publicly threatened them with the loss of their licences, which, at least for now, has not gone any further. There was also an aim to deny their views and discredit their professional name. Their views were mostly overlooked by the MSM.

In early November, the same group of doctors (at first anonymously, but soon after they revealed their identities) published an official call against the disintegration of the health system, evidently under the corona regulations.

To summarise

In the debate The Doctors with Conscience speak up about Covid-19, they were critical of the corona medical and political policy in Slovenia, and were also critical of the corona narrative on the global level. The debate is (at least for now) without English subtitles. In general, they challenged the common and politically and media-driven scaremongering about Covid-19, and they also doubted the reaction to the virus, which they defined as not so exceptional in comparison with other diseases.

In the first lines of the published call against disintegration of the health system, they addressed the public and summarised their view. They were writing against the proposal to legalise immunity from criminal charges and liability claims in the case of professional errors due to preoccupation in the context of the Covid-19 working conditions. “We realise,” they stated, “that medical work is also profoundly connected with the risk of misjudgement or overlooking a problem and the possibility of complications in the context of diagnostics and/or therapeutic interventions.” “Nevertheless, the proposed intention to proclaim immunity under the proposed terms does not represent the opinion of the majority of Slovenian doctors on the matter,” they summed up.

In a direct appeal to the government, they underlined that patient safety cannot be bargained against the current crisis. As we all know and as they put down on paper, “the problems in the Slovenian health system have been there for the last 30 years” and “the task of the government is to organise professional and sufficient personnel and proper equipment with financialisaton and investments into education.”

They called for an open and robust dialogue among the medical profession in a wider sense. They emphasised that “the citizens have a right to know that not all the doctors are willing to sell out and to submit to the interests of politics and capital”. “If the proposed immunity is legalised. it would mean a violation of the ethical code and that they will not be forced to accept conditions of that nature,” they concluded.

The call against disintegration was initially signed by:

Dr Uroš Dobnikar, traumatology; Dr Matjaž Figelj, palliative care; Dr Jana Harej Figelj, general medicine; Dr Biserka Ilin, psychiatry, paedopsychiatry, psychotherapy; Dr Gregor Knafelc, dental medicine; Dr Živan Krevel, medical doctor; Dr Marko Novak, surgery; Dr Tatjana Pfeifer, anaesthesiology, reanimatology, and perioperative intensive care; Dr Sebastijan Piberl, general and emergency medicine; Dr Stanko Pušenjak, gynaecology and obstetrics; Dr Sabina Senčar, medical doctor, gynaecology

Therefore, in Slovenia, too, a group doctors have stood up against the disintegration of the health system and totalitarianism behind corona policy, and probably, hardly anyone has heard this news. Even the national media, barely covered the story, nevertheless, they sent the information to the international level.

It’s important to acknowledge their position, to state clearly that (a group of) Slovenian doctors didn’t just mute their voices during corona order. Despite the country’s political situation and a ‘local version of catch 22’ (when the general public wants critical voices, but in praxis they sometimes forget that it’s a good idea to give them also a full support), they stood up and made a stance approximately aligned with the worldwide doctors’ alliance.

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