A former trauma surgeon just told a U.S. Senate hearing that hospital leadership signed off on something that should never have been policy: refusing care based on vaccination status.
James P. Miller, a licensed physician from Everett, Washington, testified Monday at Sen. Ron Johnson’s hearing, “COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People.”
His account was blunt.
Primary care and urgent care physicians refused to see unvaccinated patients—and, he said, the chief medical officer of his medical group knew and approved it through policy.
“Hospital leadership, including the chief medical officer of our medical group, endorsed the local medical establishment’s refusal to provide healthcare to unvaccinated patients,” Miller testified.
Not a rumor from a comment section.
Sworn testimony from a trauma surgeon who says he watched the local medical establishment turn people away, then watched colleagues stay quiet or get pushed out.
Miller said the refusals pushed him to open a free clinic through his local church, which later became a licensed clinic.
There, he said, treatments that were censored by medical societies, pharmacists, social media, the press, and health agencies—ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, zinc, quercetin, and basic physical exercise—were “highly effective” against COVID.
He also said he filed a sworn attestation in 2024 for criminal investigations into pandemic-era wrongdoing.
The cost of speaking, as he described it: “countless unfounded disciplinary hearings, show trials and sham peer review procedures, which included the threat of me being arrested.”
He said every attack was retaliation for speaking out, that he defeated them, remained in good standing, and “told the truth.”
His closing point wasn’t partisan, it was operational: “Accountability is necessary if we’re going to maintain public trust and a functioning healthcare system.”
If a chief medical officer can endorse turning unvaccinated patients away from primary and urgent care (and the physicians who object are the ones put through hearings) the problem is bigger than one clinic in Washington.
It’s really a question of whether medical judgment was replaced by policy, and whether anyone in leadership will answer for it…
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