Army Doctor Says He’s Being ‘Persecuted’ for Giving Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine
A U.S. military doctor is alleging the Army has taken a series of retaliatory actions against him in response to the doctor granting medical waivers to the COVID-19 vaccine for some service members.
Maj. Samuel Sigoloff, former director of the Raymond W. Bliss Army Health Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, has been ordered to stop seeing patients, assigned to do menial duties, given a relief for cause officer evaluation report, and risks having his license to practice medicine revoked.
Sigoloff’s attorney describes the Army’s actions as “retribution” for the doctor practicing medicine in a way inconsistent with the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine policies.
Medical Exemptions
Not long after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s August 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Sigoloff began seeing a number of patients who had need for “legitimate medical exemptions” from the vaccine, the Army doctor told The Epoch Times.
But within weeks of the vaccine mandate, Sigoloff was suspended by the clinic commander, a registered nurse, at the Raymond Bliss Health Center for providing these medical exemptions, he said. All the medical exemptions he provided for service members were invalidated by this registered nurse, he added.
According to Sigoloff, each of these patients received appropriate medical evaluations and by his estimation, it would have been more risky or harmful to administer the shot to these service members than it would for them to be unvaccinated.
“This goes outside a nurse’s authority, practicing medicine without a license,” Sigoloff said.
He went on to note that she is not a doctor but more like “the CEO” of the hospital. “Individual medical decisions are made by the patient and licensed medical provider that are in the room together, not by a registered nurse,” he said. Attorney Sean Timmons, who is representing Sigoloff agreed, pointing out that “he’s the one with the professional
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