Oregon Medical Board Suspends Dr. Paul Thomas for Practicing Informed Consent

In 2021, I published an article you can read for free online documenting how one ethical pediatrician came under attack by a state medical board for respecting parents’ right to make their own informed choice about childhood vaccinations. For readers who wished to support the effort I put into providing that empowering knowledge, for a while, I offered this PDF version. I stopped selling the PDF when the article was subsequently adapted and published as the hardcover book The War on Informed Consent: The Persecution of Dr. Paul Thomas by the Oregon Medical Board, which features a Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., which you can purchase signed copies of through this website.

However, because I know the price of the hardcover is outside of some of my readers’ budget, I am making this cruder PDF edition available again. (This is the only book of mine I didn’t self-publish, and I hence do not control the retail price.) I encourage you to instead purchase a hardcover of The War on Informed Consent since it benefited from additional rounds of editing and development and contains Bobby Kennedy’s Foreword (and I’ll sign it for you). And if you can’t afford that version but would still like to obtain the knowledge while still supporting my work, you can alternatively purchase this PDF version, which runs 209 pages in a 6 x 9 inch “trade paperback” format (which I selected instead of 8.5 x 11 inch “letter” format to make it easier to read on mobile devices).

On December 3, 2020, the Oregon Medical Board issued an emergency suspension order to prevent renowned pediatrician Paul Thomas, MD, from seeing his patients by stripping him of his license.

The ostensible reason given by the board for this action against Thomas, who is affectionately known as “Dr. Paul” by his patients and peers, is that his “continued practice constitutes an immediate danger to public health”.

The main accusation leveled at Thomas by the state medical board is that he has “breached the standard of care” in his practice by having many patients who are not vaccinated strictly according to the routine childhood schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

But that’s not the true story.

The true story is that parents have flocked to Integrative Pediatrics precisely because they’ve been bullied, with the state’s approval, by pediatricians in other practices who choose to dutifully serve the bureaucrats in government by compelling parents to strictly comply with the CDC’s schedule.

Tellingly, the board’s suspension order was issued just eleven days after Thomas published a study in a peer-reviewed medical journal showing that, among the children born into his practice, those who remained completely unvaccinated were diagnosed at significantly lower rates than vaccinated children for a broad range of chronic health conditions and developmental disorders.

The real story here isn’t one of a rogue doctor dismissing science and recklessly endangering his pediatric patients by bullying their parents into accepting “alternative” care. The real story is one of a rogue medical board dismissing science and recklessly endangering public health by encouraging pediatricians to bully their parents into strict compliance with the CDC’s schedule and selecting Paul Thomas, MD, to set an example to other physicians of what their punishment will be if they instead choose to respect parents’ right to informed consent.