$5K bribe didn't stop daughter of Kamloops doctor from getting COVID jab
A former Royal Inland Hospital anesthesiologist tried to bribe her daughter to dissuade her from taking a COVID-19 vaccine. Outside of Embassy Church in Kelowna yesterday, Dec. 13, Dr. Rachel Maurice spoke at an anti-vaccine rally alongside two other B.C. doctors. Multiple videos...
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A former Royal Inland Hospital anesthesiologist tried to bribe her daughter to dissuade her from taking a COVID-19 vaccine.
Outside of Embassy Church in Kelowna yesterday, Dec. 13, Dr. Rachel Maurice spoke at an anti-vaccine rally alongside two other B.C. doctors.
Multiple videos posted to social media show the doctor cheered by the crowd for her stance against vaccines, and her time at Royal Inland Hospital before leaving and going into private practice.
"I'm the type of person that I like to gather information... I usually take care of myself so I feel like I'm healthy, I'll manage," Dr. Maurice said to the crowd.
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The event was organized by a group called Canadian Voters Association, where two others B.C. doctors joined her to speak.
Dr. Maurice explained how she was surprised when vaccines became available as soon as they did, and she has not had a COVID-19 vaccination.
Her registration from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. is temporarily inactive, according to the college website.
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"I told (my kids) it would be over my dead body they would be getting this shot," she said, but blamed influence from her children's friends and their father for her getting vaccinated.
"I woke up one morning and thought, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to bribe my daughter," Dr. Maurice said.
She offered one daughter $5,000 to not be vaccinated. The crowd cheered that statement.
"In the end, both of my kids went on and got the shot with their dad. I was debating taking them or letting them go with their dad, and I honestly couldn't go because I felt like I would strangle the people in the clinic," she said. "At this point in time, thank God, they seem to be OK."
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The College of Physicians and Surgeons, which regulates doctors registered to practice in B.C., would not comment on Dr. Maurice or the event at the Embassy Church.
However, the video may be investigated by their complaints department, a college spokesperson said in an emailed statement to iNFOnews.ca.
An event poster advertised Lytton Dr. Charles Hoffe, who was under investigation for sowing doubts among his patients about COVID-19 vaccines, to speak at the Dec. 13 event. Dr. Stephen Malthouse also participated in the event. He had authorized a Kelowna-based website to use his signature for fake mask and vaccination exemption letters.
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