The Case against Dr Marcus de Brun
GP appears before Irish Medical Council on June 10th
Intro:
This article documents the resignation of Dr Marcus de Brun from the Irish Medical Council in April 2020, offers insight into how doctors were advised to behave at the outset of the ‘Covid Pandemic’ and sets out the case against this GP, scheduled for hearing on June 10th.
Dublin GP Dr Marcus de Brun resigned from the Irish Medical Council (IMC) in April 2020. In doing so, he sent a clear warning signal.
Dr de Brun’s evidence shows that, while the Government and NPHET argued the reasoning behind sending patients from hospitals to nursing homes was to ‘free up beds’ in ‘preparation for an anticipated wave of Covid infections,’ they appear to have actually caused the initial ‘wave.’
At this point (as Dr de Brun stated) :
“Residents were locked in the nursing home. Family members were locked out.”
The nursing home where he worked in north County Dublin, was one of those selected for patient transfers from hospital. Meanwhile, in a nursing home nearby in Rush, no patients were transferred from hospital. This allowed the GP to conduct an early comparison of death rates.
The transfer of patients began in early February 2020, to nursing homes with spare bed capacity.
“The nursing home I cared for, was one of those selected,” Dr de Brun said.
“On or about the second week in March 2020 I attended the nursing home on Monday morning to do my rounds. I was informed that over the weekend some 8-10 hospital patients had been transferred from Beaumont Hospital to our Nursing Home in preparation for an anticipated ‘wave’ of Covid infections. When I asked for their Covid status, I was informed that none of the transfers had been tested for Covid-19 prior to leaving the hospital.”
Methods of infection control at this point comprised regular PCR testing and the isolation of patients in their rooms.
On March 21, 2020 the HSE issued a crucial Directive, informing all nursing homes that if they recorded a single positive test result among residents prior to that date, testing would no longer be provided for nursing home residents. This Directive paved the way for all deaths occurring in the affected nursing homes to be attributed to ‘Covid 19.’
“A total of 12 residents within my nursing home died from Covid-19. I cared for each one and was with many of them as they died. No death is pleasant, yet theirs was particularly disturbing, as they died alone, without dignity, without an appropriate level of care, and without their loved ones,” Dr de Brun said.
A colleague of his was caring for residents in the Rush nursing home, a few miles away. This care home received no hospital transfers.
“They did not have a single Covid related death,” the GP said.
“Watching so many people die, in such a short period of time, was upsetting to say the least, not only in respect of the deaths themselves, but the manner in which family members could do nothing other than stand outside the windows of residents' rooms. If those residents were on the first floor then family members would just sit in the car park and cry.”
Resignation
Distraught by the NPHET policies he was witnessing wreak havoc in his workplace, Dr de Brun resigned his seat on the IMC. The President of the IMC at that time was Bray based GP, Dr Rita Doyle. Elected in 2018, she became the first female President of the IMC, and the first full-time GP elected as President. She had more than 30 years experience as a GP and was a past President of the Irish College of General Practitioners.
“Dr Rita Doyle did not support my position in respect of the Nursing Homes and despite the contents of my resignation letter she informed the media that I had resigned for ‘personal reasons,’” Dr de Brun explained in an interview with this Substack.
“Dr Doyle was angered by my criticisms of the Govt handling of nursing homes and she warned that public criticism of NPHET policy would undermine public confidence in the guidelines and would not be tolerated by the IMC. She informed myself and my colleagues that doctors had an ‘ethical and professional duty to follow and promote Covid 19 public health guidelines,’” he said.
Dr de Brun and most of his colleagues at the time were in agreement with the assertion that GP’s and the public should follow the health guidelines as requested.
However, he said that he and others ‘rejected the notion that we had an ethical duty to promote those guidelines, if we felt that those same guidelines would cause more harm than good.’
“The president warned all GP's in Ireland of professional consequences for those who might be openly critical of Government Policy,” Dr de Brun said.
The following month, on May 15 2020, the Irish government introduced mandatory mask wearing as a public health measure in multiple settings.
The mask mandate, together with travel and other restrictions, prompted public backlash. In August 2020, Dr de Brun spoke at a rally in Dublin, organised to protest restrictions.
“I spoke at the rally and declared at the outset that I was there in my capacity as a parent, and not as a representative of the medical profession,” he said.
“I was critical of the effect the restrictions were having on my children's education and development, and I was also critical of the treatment of residents in the nursing homes and the effects of the lockdowns on the health service.”
In September 2020, Dr de Brun received a letter from the Irish Medical Council. The letter pointed to his attendance at the rally the previous month. The IMC told the GP they had received three complaints against him. The letters related to his attendance at the rally.
“One letter related that I ‘appeared not to observe social distancing and may not have used hand sanitiser when shaking hands with people afterwards.’ One letter complained that I had made the (factually correct) assertion that at the time no child in Ireland had died from Covid-19,” he said.
Due to the complaints, the IMC informed Dr de Brun that he was under investigation by the IMC for failing to promote Covid policy.
Over the following months, several other GP's were placed under investigation by the IMC on similar grounds.
These include:
Dr Pat Morrisey
Dr William Ralph
Dr Gerard Waters
Last December Dr Neville Wilson, a GP in Kilcock, Co Kildare, was found guilty of professional misconduct over his failure to wear a mask at his clinic during Covid and for the display of a poster in his surgery stating covid vaccines were not safe.
In its reportage, RTE described the poster as ‘containing false and misleading information about Covid vaccines.’
Multiple claims against Dr Wilson - a former pilot with the South African Air Force - were raised at the hearing. One that was found at the hearing not to be proven, concerned his telling the father of a one-month-old baby, who needed treatment, in May 2022 that face masks and vaccines were ineffective against Covid.
In his defense, Dr Wilson insisted that he had only stated that he was not ‘anti-vax" but "pro-science.’
Meanwhile, long-term readers will remember the Senior Consultant at a well-known clinic in the west of Ireland, who spoke to this Substack about the dangers of covid vaccine boosters, on the basis of anonymity, under threat of punishment by the HSE.
Senior medics talk vaccine harm as boosters plummet to 2%
Senior medics seeing vaccine damage among Irish patients have been warned not to discuss the topic. Medics say they have been warned by the Health Service Executive (HSE) that if they speak to the media, they face penalties and risk being struck off.
Investigation
Dr Marcus de Brun is not under investigation for failure to implement public health guidelines at his surgery in Rush.
“Throughout all of my duties as a GP I consistently adhered to Public Health guidelines in respect of social distancing, masks, vaccines etc. In my view, my patients were already frightened enough in respect of Covid-19 and any failure to adhere to guidelines at my Practice would only serve to exacerbate their fears and anxieties,” he said.
Following five years of investigation into de Brun’s public questioning of Covid policy, a hearing date has been set for June 10th next.
The GP believes his investigation is one of the ‘most protracted in the history of the IMC.’ He describes this inexplicable delay as ‘a mechanism to control and intimidate and in this instance to silence.’
“The reason for the duration is clear (at least to me). Whilst under investigation by the IMC a doctor’s registration is effectively frozen. He or she cannot apply for a new job, nor can they leave the country to work in a new jurisdiction; without informing prospective employers that they are currently under investigation by the medical council.
“Secondly, while under investigation the doctor must comply with the investigators, requests for records and information, to account for their activities for the duration of the investigation, as I have been compelled to do since my investigation began in 2020. Failure to fully comply with the investigation process would result in the Council having recourse to immediately suspend the doctor from the medical register under section 52 of the Medical Practitioners Act,” Dr de Brun explained.
At the outset and conclusion of an investigation, the IMC has the option of dismissing a complaint; referring the doctor for further training, or (if the complaint reaches a threshold of serious misconduct) the IMC can call the doctor before a Fitness to Practice Hearing, where sanctions can be imposed and the doctor can be suspended from the register.
Vaccines
Ahead of the vaccine roll out in Ireland, Dr de Brun was warned that the IMC would prosecute any GP who refused to administer the jab to their patients. This prompted him to close his surgery in Rush.
“I made the very difficult decision to resign from my GMS (medical card patient) contract with the HSE and to close my practice. As I was no longer contracted by the HSE, I was no longer obligated to administer the vaccine. As a consequence, I presently work in the out of hours service and provide locum cover for colleagues, in this capacity I am not expected to administer Covid vaccines,” he said.
“I cannot apply for a fulltime post as I am the subject of IMC proceedings. Once again I must reiterate that the IMC has no issue with my declining to administer the Vaccine because I am no longer in possession of a HSE or GMS contract.”
Serious misconduct?
In 2023, Dr de Brun requested the factual basis of the case against him from the IMC. In response, he was told that his occasional articles published on Cassandra Voices together with his posts on X (Twitter) had been sent to an independent expert.
However, the independent expert, Professor Colin Bradley, a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at University College Cork, made no reference to ‘serious misconduct’ in his report.
Dr de Brun wrote to the IMC and asked why there was no mention of ‘serious misconduct.’
The IMC responded that it would write to Professor Bradley and request him to report whether or not Dr de Brun’s articles or X posts constituted ‘serious misconduct.’
In the second report that followed, Professor Bradley found evidence of ‘serious misconduct’ in the form of a post on Dr de Brun’s account Twitter account in August 2020. In the post, Dr de Brun stated that medics had ‘effectively been bribed into silence’ due to payments issued in respect of covid policies.
Dr de Brun’s X account has more than 47,000 followers.
In May 2022 Irish Times Health Correspondent, Paul Cullen investigated covid payments made to GP’s and found that each GP received on average, €70,000.
“Bear in mind that this figure was in addition to the money paid to us in respect of our GMS (medical card) contracts. In addition to these payments the government also offered a €1,000 euro bonus payment to all ‘frontline’ healthcare workers for their services during the pandemic. I have not availed of this payment and am unsure as to the number of GP's who have done so,” Dr de Brun said.
“For referring to the fiscal largess enjoyed by myself and my colleagues during the Pandemic as ‘effective bribery,’ I must now appear before the IMC to face the charge of ‘serious misconduct,’ Dr de Brun said.
Dr Marcus de Brun is scheduled to appear before the Irish Medical Council for a Fitness to Practice hearing on June 10th 2025.
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“A world where Doctors are not permitted to whistleblow or openly criticise public health policy, is a retrograde step that brings us back to an era where society is controlled by a special class of individuals, who are beyond reproach and beyond all hope of accountability.” - Dr Marcus de Brun
Read Dr de Brun’s article on Why healthy people don’t require genetic vaccination
Watch Dr de Brun interview with Elaine Mullally on X
Watch Dr be Brun interview with Gerry O’Neill (YouTube)
Listen to Dr de Brun interview on Niall Boylan Podcast
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As the mother of Roy Butler who died five days post vaccine and no answers .We as a family are 100% behind you in your fight for truth and justice. God bless you .
This is what tyranny looks like. Absolutely unbelievable when it’s all laid out.