Dr. Bob Sears on CA Medical Probation: In His Own Words
Note: We support Dr. Bob Sears' commitment to treating patients as individuals and his willingness not to compromise his medical ethics. California is a political bellwether state. Their draconian vaccine policies are shocking. Healthy children banned from school. And good doctors barred from practicing. Below the LA Times report is Dr. Sears' on words on his public Facebook page. For those who want to hear the story from the horse's mouth, not the jackasses at the LA Times, long known for castigating the vaccine safety community. He wrote a letter - and madness ensued. By the way, the Times new owner is "Soon-Shiong, 65, has lived in Los Angeles for 38 years and is one of its richest residents, with a fortune estimated at $7.6 billion by Forbes. He holds a small ownership stake in the Lakers, runs a cluster of healthcare companies, operates a cutting-edge biotech laboratory in Culver City and, last year, rescued six small California hospitals. He has pioneered medical treatments and performed scientific experiments for NASA’s Space Shuttle program." So how to you think medicine will be treated at the paper? Objectively? Dr. Richard Pan is behind the vaccine laws in California. Dr. Soon Shiong will report his work.
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LA Times report: California doctor critical of vaccines is punished for exempting 2-year-old boy from all childhood immunizations
In a decision that could signal how California’s fierce vaccine debates will play out in the coming years, the Medical Board of California has ordered 35 months’ probation for Dr. Bob Sears, an Orange County pediatrician well-known for being sympathetic to parents opposed to vaccines.
In 2016, the board threatened to revoke Sears’ medical license for wrongly writing a doctor’s note for a 2-year-old boy that exempted him from all childhood vaccinations. This week, the medical board settled on a lesser punishment. Read more here.
Patients, friends, and colleagues:
I want to update all of you on the status of the California medical board case against me which began in 2015. For those who don’t know, the board has been investigating me for writing a court opinion letter for a child who had an adverse reaction to vaccines. Recently, instead of proceeding to a trial, the board has offered me a settlement of 35 months probation, and I have accepted. I am at peace with this outcome. Probation means that I will choose a pediatric colleague in the area who will periodically review some of my charts to verify I am, as always, practicing within the standard of care. I will also have to take some extra continuing medical education classes and an ethics course.
Why accept a settlement when I’ve done nothing wrong? The challenge with medical board cases is that even if I win on all aspects of a case, the medical board can still exercise its authority and put me on probation anyway. I win, or lose, a trial before a judge, then the medical board decides the punishment based on how they see the facts. Since it was likely that I’d get probation anyway, I accepted the offer.
All this for a court opinion letter? Medical boards are normally tasked with protecting patients against doctors who do things like sell drugs, see patients while intoxicated, commit insurance fraud, prescribe a wrong drug that ends up hurting a patient. However, this investigation probably came from higher up the chain of command. I picked a fight with a California Legislator, and he has been very vocal about openly working with the medical board to prosecute doctors who excuse patients from their vaccines, regardless of the merits of a case. I signed up for this.
So what really happened, and why should the very existence of this case concern every American? A child and his mother came to me for help. The mom described how her baby had suffered a moderate to severe neurologic reaction to vaccines almost three years prior, and she was afraid a judge in her upcoming hearing was going to force her to resume vaccines now. Medical records of the reaction were not available yet, and I gave the patient a letter of opinion to show the judge that the reaction was severe enough to justify not doing any more vaccines. The board accusation against me states that such a judgement should not be made without medical records. But this patient needed a letter right away. Getting the patient’s medical records ended up taking over a year. Isn’t it my job to listen to my patients and believe what a parent says happened to her baby? Isn’t that what ALL doctors do with their patients? A patient’s word is often the only evidence we have - as doctors we must trust our patients, the same way our patients trust us to look out for their best interest. After all, I don’t want a child to receive a medical treatment that could cause more harm. I am going to first do no harm, every time.
The second detail in this case, and the part which ultimately prompted me to agree to a settlement, is the medical board observed that I did not make complete medical notes of the neurological exam I performed on the child at a second visit. The child came in complaining that he had been hit on the head with a hammer. I checked him out thoroughly, performed a complete neurologic exam, but you know what? I didn’t write down all aspects of the exam. I documented everything else but that one detail.
Is this fight over? No it is not. This was just case number one. The medical board is already lining up four more cases, and these will be about vaccine medical exemptions under the new vaccine law. It seems there is an attempt to keep me on probation for the rest of my medical career. But the one thing I’m going to do differently this time is that I’m going to be very open with all the proceedings. With case one, I was silent. Upon the recommendation of my lawyers I haven’t said a thing until now. But I’m tired of being quiet.
So, case number two involves siblings who got vaccine medical exemptions from me because one of the children has a severe medical condition that research has shown can get worse with ongoing vaccination. The other child doesn’t have the condition, yet, but dad does. Exemption for reasons in a family’s medical history is an amendment guaranteed under SB277. We’ll see if the medical board agrees - probably about two years from now. These things take a long time.
Case number three is a child with a family member who had a severe permanent neurological injury after vaccines.
Case number four is a teen who had a severe reaction to an infant vaccine, her own doctor told her to opt out of that vaccine after that, and I gave her an exemption from the teen booster dose. We’ll see if the board agrees.
Case number five involves siblings to whom I did not give vaccine exemptions to, but a parent somehow reported me to the medical board anyway. I don’t know why yet. Should be interesting.
It alarms me to see any medical board questioning exemptions that are given to families who have suffered severe vaccine reactions. It should alarm everybody. More doctors need to stand up for their patients, especially the ones who are the most vulnerable. I’m going to continue to stand for these children.
Now that case one is settled, I can go back to being loud and proud about my belief that every single patient should receive complete informed consent prior to vaccinations. This two-year period of silence has been tough. I will not rest until every single family has been given access to full, complete, objective, and un-doctored information that makes every parent fully aware of the risks they accept if they don’t vaccinate their child, and all the risks they take if they do vaccinate their child. Period. And I will fight against mandatory vaccination laws until they are no more. When every single person on this planet has access to informed consent, and can make a free choice, I will then be able to say my work is done.
Thank you all for the outpouring of love and support, and your continued prayers.
I have known Dr Sears Mom who came to our La Leiche League meetings in the park 32 years ago, with their child and they had about 9 children if I remember. We all had home birth and no vaccinations those days. Talking about literature about it, knitting and crocheting
I have four unvaccinated children that are in their thirties and twenties, all born at home, two of them born without a midwife, because that what we stood for back then. We have studied Doctor Christopher’s medical books on the issue of childhood diseases and I know at least ten families with grown kids that are not vaccinated, all of whoms kids are fine, in fact my kids had German measles and mumps and chickenpocks and got over it with herbs. The problem is really that people who have no idea about how the body works and medicine, and immune systems, and the importance of our digestive system in defense against viruses and bacteria, are passing their ignorant opinions filled with fear, and it’s not even a conversation. To get in on a conversation about that subject, they would first have to study Doctor Christopher’s multiple books on all subjects that are about childhood diseases and the herbs for them and our own defense system, to even be capable of a logical medical conversation and then opinion. Those same people also need to educate themselves on the Pharmaceutical greed, and basically mafia, who exploit medically uneducated people, in order to sell all those vaccines and medicines, that have more side effects as they are doing good. Pharmaceuticals have been exposed on 60 minutes many times about their monetary interests being 100% more important then anyone’s single life. when they were exposed to fake medicines being sold every where, made by Chinese imposters, and when asked by sixtie minutes Journalists said they don’t want to afford to pull fake medicines like blood thinners and pills of the market even many people died from them, because it cost them to much money, Billions. Bill Sears and his wife Martha back then had all the same ideas as all parents who decided to give their kids a better upbringing with organic food and home birth, no vaccinations and a truckload of Information that leads to an educated choice!!!
They also need to look in to the Medical Universities who get free medical equipment and are trained on them from the corporations who make the, so they can sell trillions of dollars worth of useless mashines when they open a practice later like the MRI which uses Gadalinium solution to get a reading on MRI’s and shuts down people’s kidneys and stays mostly 10% in people’s brain forever. Nobody talks about the 300.000 death per year resulting to med errors or misdiagnoses of Doctors due to big Pharma brainwashing Doctors who are trained by multi billion dollar influences through Universities. Anyone who hasn’t read the Gynecologist Robin Davis Floyd’s book, an American right of passage, who writes about the insanity of the birthing process in this Country tainted by money, can not pass an objective opinion. So thank you Doctor Sears. To all the doubters, read before judging and having opinions!!!
Posted by: Kirstina | January 28, 2019 at 10:54 PM
I just received a call from Dr. Bob’s office saying my insurance company, Tricare, will no longer contract with Dr. Bob because of the Medical Board’s decision. Dr. Bob was kind enough to support military families and still contract with our insurance. My 16 yo son with special needs has come to love Dr. Bob over the 13 years he has seen him, and views him as a friend and rock star. I am a former RN, and advocate for my 3 children. For those of you so caught up in political correctness, intruding into the private lives of others, and quite frankly thinking you know everything about everything, you don’t! For children like my son, who cannot speak, cannot express how/what they feel, throw tantrums for years at Dr. appointments, finding a physician who takes the time to understand them, who can communicate with you, who advocates for your child, is a gift from God. For my son to be literally as excited to go see Dr. Bob as he is to go to a football game or Disneyland has been very rewarding. It is always the simple things in life that mean so much with children like my son. My husband has been a Marine for 27 years. He loves this country and loves being a Marine. He and others like him sacrifice so much so that the citizens of this great nation have freedom and liberty. Ironic that his own children do not have those same freedoms and liberties. Their freedom to choose their pediatrician has been taken away from them by the very same government that their dad works for. Every day I make choices regarding my son’s medical care related to his rare chromosome disorder, the 20+ secondary diagnoses as a result of it, his autism, his type 1 diabetes. No one questions whether I say “yes” or “no” to a procedure or medication or therapy. They trust my judgement. But when it comes to vaccines? Suddenly I’m ignorant and unable to make an informed decision. The government must jump in and decide for me. That is ridiculous! We support you, Dr. Bob. You and your wife have been professional, compassionate providers. We have been blessed to have you in our lives.
Tina, Noah, Daniel, Anna Grace
Posted by: Tina Whalen | October 04, 2018 at 05:59 PM
Mary Maxwell, I'm sorry but that won't do any good - the police went over to the other side a long time ago!
Posted by: Grace Green | July 04, 2018 at 04:47 PM
Thank you, Dr. Sears, for being a hero for our children. Also, thank you for alerting us that the L.A. Times is now owned by a vaccine interests. All the more reason to cancel it for good!!
Posted by: Kapoore | July 04, 2018 at 11:52 AM
Thank you for standing up to the system
Posted by: Olga | July 02, 2018 at 12:13 PM
Call the police.
Posted by: Mary Maxwell | July 02, 2018 at 07:30 AM
Pam: Thank you for posting Josh Coleman's video. I well remember the entirety of those exchanges, since the state has put flat-screens throughout the cavernous third-floor hallways where we waited five hours to testify. And the governor's signing statement explicitly reiterated this expansion of the medical exemption. The lying little SOB. He is the one who should be stripped of his license and booted out of the legislature. The medical board and the state department of health should be investigated. And the lot of them thrown into jail.
Posted by: Gary Ogden | July 01, 2018 at 09:42 PM
This is getting bad. I commented here an hour ago:
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/ocregister/httpswwwocregistercom20180629dr_bob_sears_renowned_vaccine_skeptic_placed_on_probation_for_exempting/#comment-3969578754
This was (was being the operative word) my comment:
"At the time, three years ago, the instigator of the law, Dr. Richard Pan, assured us that the law would continue to allow physicians to write vaccine exemptions at their discretion. We all recognize that all vaccines can be dangerous, all vaccines have killed and disabled many recipients. This child whom Dr. Sears exempted had already had a severe vaccine reaction. What is happening here that suddenly what Dr. Pan said was specifically stated in the law three years ago has been disappeared out of existence? Who has the right to force anyone to take any vaccine, when we all know that it is a risk which many millions regret having taken? Who is going to guarantee 100% that this little boy would not have had any severe reaction of any kind to any further vaccines?
Dr. Sears was using his discretion, and his patients were relying on him to do so. Are we now going to force all children to be tied to a conveyor belt at the supermarket every couple of months to have the mandated vaccines pumped into them? No matter how dangerous the vaccines, how numerous the doses in one round of vaccines, how vulnerable the individual child based on his own genetic and environmental factors? After all, does anyone really care that almost 3% of American children are being diagnosed with autism now? Up from three in 10,000 in 1987? Up from zero in 1900? Care that over half of American children now have an autoimmune disease caused by vaccines? The time is coming when every American is going to be forced to care to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars. And, of course, the millions who have already seen our children react severely to vaccines already do."
Then thought I'd look for the clause in SB277 granting physicians the absolute discretion to grant exemptions, found the words right out of Brown's mouth, when I went to put them up, I found my first comment had already been taken down as spam. Spam? Why was my comment taken down as spam? Just because it pointed out something B.P. would rather forget ever existed? These are Governor Brown's words, I just put them up, and will have to see tomorrow if that's been taken down as spam as well. They don't permit links these days, but will probably take it down because I attributed it and used quotation marks, and the interested reader only has to put one phrase from it into Google and it will take him to the original. But since they're punishing me for including links, I didn't.
""The Legislature, after considerable debate, specifically amended SB277, to exempt a child from immunization whenever the child's physician concluded that there are 'circumstances, including, but not limited to, family medical history, for which the physician does not recommend immunization...'
This, SB277, while requiring that school children be vaccinated, explicitly provides an exception when a physician believes that circumstances - in the judgment and sound discretion of the physician - so warrant.
Sincerely,
Edmund G. Brown, Jr. "
I hope these *** rot in hell. On the positive side, J.B. Handley still had a comment up at that site an hour ago.
Posted by: cia parker | July 01, 2018 at 08:41 PM
Shelley, I applaud your direct, incisive condamation of the vaccine-poisons injected into just birthed infants, starting with HepB (AND, its complementary HBIG shot - the initials standing for the toxic Hepatitis B ImmunoGlobulin, also given at birth with the HepB).
May I add to your list of terrible toxicities also making it to fetuses in the womb? I refer to the literally "insane" injection of neurotoxic Flu Vaccines to pregnant mothers thus going into their developing babies.
Also, there is the other "insane" DTaP vaccine shot to expectant mothers, also passing its toxicities to their developing babies.
All of these facts are completely ignored when seeing the published Child Immunization Schedule, a Schedule that "Lies by Omission" as it never acknowledges exposure in the womb.
Posted by: david m burd | July 01, 2018 at 07:29 PM
The following needs to be shared widely. Pan during SB277 hearings on medical exemptions...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=CQsUdtv6chI
Josh did a terrific job putting this together.
Posted by: Pam | July 01, 2018 at 10:56 AM
Typical of the legal system to bring a case to trial before the defendant has time to obtain their case notes. It happens here in the UK also. And Dr. Sears' lawyers advised him to keep quiet. They're on the other side! My advice is never listen to a lawyer. The time will come when we each have to defend ourselves, armed only with the Truth and our integrity. I hope Dr. Sears will take his ethics classes as an opportunity to educate them on - ethics, and his medical education classes to educate them on the facts about vaccines. They can't argue with the facts. Speak up!
Posted by: Grace Green | July 01, 2018 at 07:11 AM
Only 2 to 3 years ago Pan pushed a law that prevents children from going to school unless a child is shot with Neurotoxic Aluminum (Which is known to decimate the brain) Thimerosal/Mercury, Cancer-promoting Formaldehyde (They warn people not to walk on floors that may contain Formaldehyde due to contact with it and an increase in Cancer as a result) Aborted human (Tumorigenic) Fetal Cell DNA, Peanut Oils responsible for causing Anaphylactic Shock as children become allergic to foods from its use, animal cells, insect cells, Antifreeze, MSG, ether and other Toxic Chemicals. It was Promised that Medical Exemptions would continue but once the Medical Board went after Dr. Sears-we can all see yet another dangerous untethered action by those who Profit from shooting poisons into kids. That includes the 17% Increase in Autism in LA. Kindergarteners in the first 3 months of school under these new laws.
Dr. Sears is not the person who needs a crash course in ethics. The Pharmaceutical/Medical complex does. Remember that Ronald Regan stopped all Americans from ever suing a vaccine company or those who administer them from regular courts.They have Zero Liability. Kids use to get around 10 vaccines spread out over 15 years or so. Now kids get 74 vaccines and growing starting the day they are born for diseases they cannot not get unless they are IV drug sharing needles or having sex ( or if the mother has it). Babies do Not need Hepatitis B shots-something the UC California Colleges had their hands in as bragged about in an "LATIMES" 2015 article, while today a vaccine maker corporation has purchased the "LATIMES." No wonder why 1 in 34 kids has Brain Encephalitis -the swelling of the brain from the toxins in the vaccines better known as Autism. Does anyone else hear Nepotism?
Posted by: Shelley Tzorfas | June 30, 2018 at 05:24 PM
Nothing like shooting the messenger.No shame in accepting a deal that leaves you standing to fight another day,well done we`re all behind you and thanks.
I guess with giving him more cases to defend it will cost more money to be lawyer`d up on each case.Is there a crowdfunder to help with fees etc.
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | June 30, 2018 at 02:12 PM
Medical licensing is a hoax, a wolf in sheep's clothing. It is supposed to protect the public against bad doctors, but in reality it protects the medical cartel against innovators and competitors.
Posted by: David Weiner | June 30, 2018 at 12:40 PM
As reported online yesterday, a California physician, over a 2 year period, saw a 10yo girl with chronic vaginal pain and infection. The doctor treated her for sexually transmitted disease, but failed to review the girl's past medical history, and also failed to investigate or report the possibility of sexual abuse. This doctor was given...
...a reprimand by the Medical Board of California, which is a lesser punishment than probation.
Posted by: Carol | June 30, 2018 at 12:00 PM
From where I stand, these investigations make it look like the real intent behind SB277 is to make sure that any individual likely to be sickened or killed by a vaccine must get on that train and take that ride!
Thank you, Dr. Sears, for speaking out.
Posted by: Jeannette Bishop | June 30, 2018 at 11:27 AM
Thank you so much for all you have done for our kids and continue to do. We are lucky to have you as our twins doctor.
Posted by: Trina Aurin | June 30, 2018 at 11:17 AM
Time to admit defeat. There is no way a totalitarian vaccine dictatorship is sustainable. Terror and force will not result in long-term compliance quite the opposite. You can not maintain the illusion of vaccine safety when the truth is just one mouseclick away.
Posted by: pharmster | June 30, 2018 at 10:07 AM
Thank you, Dr. Sears. We are with you.
Posted by: Gary Ogden | June 30, 2018 at 08:13 AM
God bless you. It takes almost super human strength to with stand the wrongs against health by the very society that is suppose to protect health.
The Hypocrisies; amazing.
Posted by: Benedetta | June 30, 2018 at 07:42 AM
Dr Sears" …."I will not rest until every single family has been given access to full, complete, objective, and un-doctored information that makes every parent fully aware of the risks they accept if they don’t vaccinate their child, and all the risks they take if they do vaccinate their child. Period. And I will fight against mandatory vaccination laws until they are no more. When every single person on this planet has access to informed consent, and can make a free choice, I will then be able to say my work is done"
This is precisely why the California Medical Board has targeted Dr Sears .. after all .. the Board is merely following Sol Alinsky's Rules for Radicals .. number 12:
* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
In other words .. it does not matter to the Board if Dr Sears "wrongly wrote a Dr's note for a 2 year old boy that exempted him from all childhood vaccinations" .. the ONLY thing that matters to the Board is their "target of attack .. DR SEARS" wrote the note.
This is the world we live in today .. where the ever growing powerful vaccine industry can prosecute Dr Sears in the "court of public opinion .. for having the wisdom and COURAGE to listen to the parents of the children he treats .. which should be the most basic standard for doctors .. seeking nothing more than making certain PARENTS have access to information .. the RISKS associated with NOT vaccinating as well as the RISKS associated WITH vaccination .. then allowing the PARENTS to decide what is best for THEIR CHILD.
They are ruthlessly determined to destroy the careers and lives of all THREE .. those courageous doctors, parents and most importantly the children .. who seek nothing but acting upon THEIR RIGHT TO INFORMED CONSENT!
Posted by: bob moffit | June 30, 2018 at 07:33 AM