A former soldier walked into my private practice. He wanted a family doctor. Fine. Then he started bragging — proudly, loudly — about his overseas service. The kind of service that blew up innocent civilians. People from my country. Members of my family.

I finished the visit. Gave him directions to ERs and walk-ins. And told him to find someone else for ongoing care.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC had a meltdown. They penalized me. Why? Because I refused to become this guy's lifelong medical babysitter — someone who celebrates the people who killed my relatives. Welcome to Canadian medicine: regulators demanding you swallow your conscience and smile while you serve anyone who walks in.

Let's talk about Nazi doctors for a second.

The Reich Chamber of Physicians happily went along with Nazi "ethics." They sterilized 400,000 people. Euthanized 200,000 disabled folks. Experimented on Jews and Roma. All perfectly legal at the time. And guess what? Nuremberg didn't slap them for breaking rules — they got convicted for crimes against humanity. Because legality and morality are not the same thing. Shocking, I know.

Or how about closer to home?

RCMP officers dragged Indigenous children to residential schools. Thousands died. Canadian doctors participated — through neglect, through malnutrition experiments, through covering up TB. The CMA finally apologized in 2024. Big whoop. The TRC called it cultural genocide. And today's CPSBC would still demand those same doctors treat RCMP officers with a smile. No thanks.

Back to my case.

The soldier wasn't dying. I treated him that day. But ongoing trust? You want me to build a healing relationship with someone who cheers my family's killers? That's not discrimination — that's self-respect.

I treat Canadian and U.S. soldiers all the time. Professionally. This was different. This was personal devastation. And regulators don't care. To them, "patient rights" steamroll physician integrity every single time.

Nuremberg Code, Principle 1: "The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential."

Doctors have the right to refuse immoral participation. We allow conscientious objection for abortion. For MAiD. But war crimes? Apparently that's where we draw the line — in favor of the war criminal.

The CPSBC is doing exactly what history warns against: obey the state, suppress your morals, punish refusal. That's how atrocities start. That's how they get normalized.

Doctors must disobey immoral commands. Nuremberg proved it. History demands it.

I'm not sorry. Not even a little.