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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-101/
- Published: 2022-04-01T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-02T08:27:40.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, News, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

> Wellington doctor **Matthew Shelton** was suspended after sending a [text message to his patients ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/126132158/wellington-doctors-antivaccination-text-message-to-patients-being-taken-very-seriously-by-medical-council?ref=goodoil.news)about his anti-vaccination views stating he did not support the vaccination of children, and pregnant and fertile women.  
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> He and former Taranaki District Health Board radiologist Dr **Peter Canaday** challenged the suspension in a multi-day hearing in Wellington District Court in February.  
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> Now Judge **Stephen Harrop** has released his decisions and said he was satisfied that the council’s decision to suspend was not a fair, reasonable and proportionate response to patient safety or public health.  
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> \[…\] Both lawyers had called the Medical Council’s decision to suspend as draconian.  
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[Read more here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/128237986/two-doctors-suspended-for-speaking-out-about-the-covid19-vaccine-win-appeal-against-the-suspension?utm%5F&ref=goodoil.news)[ ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/128237986/two-doctors-suspended-for-speaking-out-about-the-covid19-vaccine-win-appeal-against-the-suspension?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=twitter)Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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