Those doing the harm are protected – while those raising the alarm are vilified

How Dr David Cartland was driven to the brink of suicide

By Sally Beck

A GP battling to expose Covid pandemic myths was driven to the brink of suicide during a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing. It was only scrolling through pictures of his children that made him abort the attempt.

Dr David Cartland, 42, a GP based in Cornwall, is halfway through a misconduct hearing held by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), an independent fitness to practice organisation. It began in October 2024, adjourned after his suicide attempt until this week.

Dr Cartland said: “I wrote a message to my wife at 3am and said, ‘I’ve had enough’. I drove to Pendine Lighthouse and was going to jump off the cliff. The police came and talked me down after my wife alerted a friend who called them.

“A few things happened to lead me there. I’ve been accused of bringing the profession into disrepute. My accusers are allowed anonymity in the hearing and I’m not, the Human Rights Act doesn’t apply and they allowed a case of entrapment as evidence. When the GMC’s barrister read out his opening statement, it was so damning I thought ‘that Dave Cartland sounds like an utter scumbag’.”

In a honeytrap, a journalist posing as a patient, contacted Dr Cartland wanting a vaccine exemption to go on holiday. He admits writing vaccine exemption certificates for five patients who wanted to visit dying relatives abroad. He provided her with one. The GMC allege, ‘Dr Cartland’s actions were intended to create a medical record containing information which he knew may be false and that his actions were dishonest’.

The evidence is allowed, despite the fact the GMC’s barrister, Thomas Moran KC, more used to representing the GMC in cases involving sexual misconduct, clinical negligence and criminal offences, said a case of entrapment could be a legitimate reason to exclude it.

Dr Cartland takes the doctor’s hippocratic oath of ‘first do no harm’ seriously and felt he had a duty to mitigate injuries where possible.

He began tweeting in 2022, after his best friend died after a positive Covid test, but he discovered it was in fact, death by botched healthcare. Dr Cartland took the jab before he knew this and suffered an adverse reaction to two Pfizer jabs.

After his second jab, he was bedbound for days with shooting pains in his head and he suffered months of fatigue. Horrific cases of vaccine injury were seen in the Cornish practise where he worked, but the GMC is not interested in what he found, only the method he used to try to get the information out there. And as no one was listening, his social media messages became more desperate, often landing him in twitter spats with other doctors, who retaliated in kind. The GMC has decided not to investigate them though, although Dr Cartland has submitted formal complaints.

What he discovered in his practise is important. His double-jabbed patients began testing positive for Covid. In two weeks, 94.1 per cent of 102 vaccinated patients developed Covid compared with just two per cent who were unvaccinated. He looked at 38 patients who were triple jabbed and then developed Covid. The odds lengthened and this time it was 100 per cent of vaccinated compared with zero cases in the unvaccinated.

The GMC received 248 complaints against him objecting to what they called his ‘anti-vax’ tweets, which were exposing vaccine harms. Complainants also say he is critical of the LBGTQ+ community, which he denies, but there are zero complaints about his skill as a doctor. He qualified in 2007, became a GP in 2014, has three science degrees including a Master’s and never even had so much as a detention at school. He is not a natural rebel or troublemaker.

The GMC began investigating him in January 2023, on the back of complaints by doctors A, B and C, two men and one woman who have been granted vulnerable witness status and, therefore, anonymity. They allege Dr Cartland bullied and harassed them on X, Telegram and Gettr. Their main objections are hurty words posted between 2022 and 2024.

They three doctors claim incitement and say Dr Cartland’s tweets caused them to receive abuse and death threats. It could be said that Dr Cartland has no filter and what did he expect tweeting things like: ‘This doctor still can’t quit her vaccine pushing addiction! Show her some love! For all the babies and pregnant mums she has inflicted spike protein upon!!’ And, ‘Liar liar your bum’s on fire’ with a picture of the doctor next to her quote that the vaccine is 100 per cent safe for pregnant mums, despite the jab causing miscarriages.

He called out one of them who claimed the jabs were ‘100% effective against hospitalisation and death’, which of course they are not. The doctor retaliated that Dr Cartland was ‘anti-vax’ and he had ‘transphobic content on his timeline’, referring to a tweet showing the Nazi flag next to the pride flag and the comment that transgenderism is moving in ‘a Nazi-esque manner’ and had hijacked the LGBTQ+ movement.

That doctor then wrote to the GMC complaining Dr Cartland said ‘all gays are Nazis’, which is not what he said. He then tweeted that he was disgusting. A tweet that resulted in Dr Cartland receiving death threats.

He called the third doctor (a farmer with a PhD who boasts of being a cyber-bully) a sheep-shagger in retaliation. Said doctor had called him a c*** and posted on Telegram: ‘I love pretending I’m a scientist when really I’m a specialist in sheep arseholes’. The farmer boasts he is member of the 77th Brigade, the British Army psyop group hunting down doctors, teachers and lawyers challenging the Covid narrative on social media. Another message he wrote said: ‘I really love to treat my 77th comrades the same way I do sheep: slow and steady’.

Dr Cartland claims the complainants and their supporters: ‘Dox [sharing information] where my kids go to school, I’ve received death threats, they spy on me in my locality. I have so many stalkers fixated on ruining me. They poke the bear and when I react, they complain about me’. But this is all fine according to the GMC, while Dr Cartland is allegedly bringing his profession into disrepute.

Dr Cartland has a quick wit, a dry sense of humour and a nice line in sarcasm. He created one social media account called ‘drquackquackquack’. He knows his comments are inflammatory but can’t stop himself. “I shoot from the hip,” he said.

Dr Cartland’s tweets, to almost 300,000 followers, should be taken seriously. They are a desperate attempt to raise the alarm, you can feel the anxiety in his writing. His basic complaints are that Covid injections do not work and can cause disability and death, that Covid cases were exaggerated, there was no informed consent and Covid as a cause of death was being prioritised on death certificates over a patient’s long-term co-morbidities.

As a doctor, he saw first hand how reality differed from the narrative. By 2022 for example, one of his fit patients suffered reactive arthritis two days after his jab and was unable to move his hands and feet, a couple developed a bizarre skin rash with large ulcers within a week of vaccination, another patient developed a blood clot on his brain four days post jab. He said he had never had so much as a sneeze in his life. But Dr Cartland was particularly affected by two women in their forties, who died of vaccine induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) within a couple of weeks of being jabbed.

Neither had any significant medical history. One of the women had two young children.

Striking off good doctors, whose only crime is to question the ‘safe and effective’ narrative, is becoming familiar. Maybe his tweets will be construed as ‘breaching professional standards and conduct for members of the medical profession’. If debate had not been censored, such desperate measures would not have been needed.

But we are living in an inverted world where those doing the harm are protected and those raising the alarm are vilified.