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I Do Not Consent: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture

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From treating COVID patients in her local hospital to fighting for the rights of frontline doctors, Dr. Simone Gold tells her story. The bumper-sticker directive to ‘follow the science’ was actually an evasion of responsibility. It let people off the hook for their bad decisions in a crisis. Was New York Governor Cuomo’s executive order sending COVID-hospitalized patients back to nursing homes to infect other vulnerable nursing home patients ‘following the science’? Of course not. And sending post-hospitalization COVID-positive patients back to nursing homes was unnecessary. Relative to the total nursing home population, Governor Cuomo contributed to a larger percentage of nursing-home deaths—especially when compared to the states without such a policy. New Jersey’s over seven thousand nursing home deaths account for half of the state’s fatalities since March. Pennsylvania did just as miserably. These governors made specific decisions that cost thousands of the most vulnerable, most expendable, their lives. But they didn’t do it to their own relatives.” —From I Do Not Consent

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 14, 2020

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261 reviews
December 31, 2020
If you are not angered when you read this book, you truly do not understand freedom or thinking for yourself. Although a good part of the book was devoted to Hydroxychloroquine, its effectiveness, its safety, and the irrational opposition to it by medical professionals, politicians, and media, its about much more. Its about freedom, common sense, and thinking for yourself. Dr. Gold's great advice to ignore the motives of the opposition is so important and freeing. It takes away THEIR argument and requires THEM to explain their actions rather than have us defend ours or our guesses as to their motives. Simply think, act based on your life experiences, and do your research. A great book!
20 reviews1 follower
December 1, 2020
This book is excellent!! It is such a breath of fresh air to hear someone say that there is hope. And not just any old “someone”, Simone is a board certified physician that has served in the frontlines in such a time as this!!! It is also so frustrating that her voice has been almost completely muted, because her voice was going against the lies that were spun and the fear that the politicians have been spewing.
She names names and pulls zero punches.
Regardless of where you sit on the fence politically, you owe it to yourself and those you love to read this book.

You just might save a life or two.

When you know better, you do better.
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68 reviews
January 7, 2021
This book was an easy read, but left me shaken. Not being a health care worker, I have trusted my children, husband, parents and myself to the doctors I pay to keep us all healthy. I cannot fathom why this current health situation would cause doctors to turn away and allow patients to die, without providing a proven drug that would save lives. Politics, Big Pharma and Big Tech have destroyed the confidence many have in science. Thank you, Dr. Gold, for your bravery and for speaking out to save lives. There is a website listed with an available doctor to speak with and receive help with prescriptions! This is an absolute treasure....EVERYONE needs to read it!
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155 reviews4 followers
February 7, 2021
Fantastic overview of the safety and effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and the devastating impacts it’s banning by Governments has had on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Simone Gold is a medical doctor and lawyer (yes she holds 2 masters degrees!) who was fired from her hospital after prescribing HCQ In combination with Azithromycin and Zinc “off lablel” to help cure her patients suffering from COVID. Subsequently she started the organization “America’s Frontline Doctors.” She is vehemently speaking out against medical cancel culture. Sadly she was recently arrested by the FBI for her activism.

She presents quite a case in her book for the dangers of letting Big Pharma call the shots. They are the only ones who stand to gain from banning cheap and effective therapeutics ($10 each) and selling their vaccine ($?) + remdesivir ($3000-5000 each)- so we must stay informed and refuse to give in to fear.

Dr. Gold puts forward a wealth of scientific proof that this cheap therapeutic which is FDA approved for over 65 years and has resulted in less than 50 adverse reactions in that time, is an effective treatment for COVID. She contends that it is so effective that our death rates would have been cut in half or 3/4 if it had been used properly in combination therapy. Of special interest to me was the graph in the back of the book detailing wealthy countries death rates who banned (HCQ) compared with many countries who allowed it (such as Costa Rica, South Korea, Israel, Turkey, India)...and what a drastic difference in death rates there were. I’ve always wondered why the USA was at the top of the list for deaths and now I think we clearly can see the reason why.

Everyone needs to read this book!!!!

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13 reviews1 follower
November 23, 2020
Fight for our freedom

This is an excellent book telling of one doctor's experience with medical cancell culture, a term I never thought I would hear. This is important for everyone to learn so that we may fight for our freedom and fight against corruption.
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59 reviews24 followers
January 1, 2021
Excerpt:
As a doctor I know there are only two things to be considered regarding a medication: Is it safe and does it work? Hydroxychloroquine was approved as a medical treatment by the Food and Drug Administration over sixty- five years ago. Since that time, it has been used by more than two billion— yes, billion with a “B”— patients worldwide. HCQ is sold over the counter (OTC) to people in most of Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia but it is available only by prescription in the United States. To be clear, this is not because the drug is unsafe for Americans to use without consulting a doctor. In fact, it’s typically sold in the vitamin section of stores across the world. The reason it is only sold by prescription in the United States has to do with our domestic pharmaceutical processes. No one from Big Pharma has ever requested that hydroxychloroquine be sold over the counter."

I am not sure as to exactly what happened with considering hydroxychloroquine as a treatment, but it seems to be effective against the COVID-19 virus, and Dr. Gold proved it in this powerfully concise book. The code for the path to freedom is MYPDQ; learn what it means from reading this excellent book, and do it!
5 reviews
December 14, 2020
Fauci is a fraud

Read this book and learn the truth about dr fauci Big Pharma, Big Tech and totally fraudulent media and letting your freedoms just taken by them
159 reviews
October 23, 2020
Facts!

Wish everyone would read this little book full of wisdom and facts. Only those who are close minded or pushing an agenda would not agree.
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149 reviews
November 19, 2020
This is short but powerful and important

I encourage anyone who cares to pick up this concise book on treatments that work. The stories are truly jawdropping
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4 reviews
February 8, 2021
If everyone in the US read this 80-page book with an open mind, the country would be a very different place. Highly recommend.
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108 reviews4 followers
April 17, 2021
An absolute wack job.
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25 reviews1 follower
December 19, 2020
Easy read with good support for given references.

I think anyone out there who isn't a trained seal recognizes that we as a people are being manipulated. Why is it that large cooperate entities remain open with hundreds of people milling about, while the ma and pa businesses are shut down. People as a whole have become like trained seals; doing whatever their master the cooperate entity dictates. Free speech and thought have been tossed out for the security blanket of Big brother taking care of their needs. People like MS Gold are jewels in a pile of sand. Today close to half of all people believe in socialism a cancer on all freedoms under the guise of safety. I sincerely pray for this nation as I fear that few truly care about freedom any longer; for they have replaced it with security. Suckling your moms breast should've been given up while still young but some never do.
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10 reviews4 followers
December 5, 2020
I finished this book before I fell asleep, but awakened in the night and couldn’t stop thinking about it. Do we live in a country that the government, MSM, and social media groups hate their president so much that they reject, discredit a valid treatment that could save lives? Over 700 American physicians signed on to this, all with exemplary credentials. It’s like the Great Barrington Declaration where over 40,000 credentialed physicians and scientists from all over the world have spoken out about handling the virus and have been censored. I ask who are we to buy into the cancel culture?
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78 reviews1 follower
November 15, 2020
Good information about the virus, censorship of doctors, and the unfair bias against HCQ. The only thing lacking is citations for a lot of information she shares. She names some studies and articles, but there are other times she makes statements without any references. I believe what she says, but would like to access the info myself in order to share with others. I know the AFLDS website has a lot of that info, though.
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December 22, 2020
The bureaucracy of medical science decides what treatments are made available to you. 'Low profit' remedies, even good ones, are discredited and banned. Doctors are forbidden to prescribe them under penalty of termination and ridicule. Profit margins are maintained through fear, peer pressure and intimidation. How many people die is not a consideration. Do your own research. Knowledge is the first step to healing.
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December 9, 2020
I’ve tried really hard to keep my tinfoil hat in the closet this year, but it has becoming increasingly difficult to do so. This book is eye opening for sure.
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2 reviews
February 5, 2021
Censorship at the highest levels

Well written and backed by facts and studies, by a brave doctor, willing to tell the truth despite attempts to silence her
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May 13, 2021
Im sure no one will read this review with an open mind (as they say to read this book). The following is a non bias review of all literature regarding Hydroxychloroquine:
Hydroxychloroquine does not reduce deaths from COVID-19, and does not reduce the number of people needing mechanical ventilation.
Hydroxychloroquine caused more unwanted effects than a placebo treatment, though it did not appear to increase the number of serious unwanted effects.

We do not use medications that have no benefit, but may cause harm. Its very basic.
Please dont be fooled by this author. Ok to question, but ask yourself if you would question a doctor about the treatment of your serious illness if 95% of other doctors agreed that that treatment could cause harm and will not help.
Don’t just be a blind loyalist, sheep usually can be tricked easily. Remember, you will be told that people who do not share your view are the sheep or “brainwashed”. Everyone hears the same thing. It makes you feel special, like you are the one who “really understands”. Don’t destroy democracy without realizing you are the one doing it.
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42 reviews
December 2, 2020
Read this if you think k there is more to the shutdowns than meets the eye

Simone Gold writes clearly why you should believe the media re the corona virus and how to conduct your own research about this vs to determine what is fact and what is not. Excellent book.





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17 reviews1 follower
December 7, 2020
A great example of what happens to dissenters

Excellent and quick read. Sometimes redundant. Kindle is missing citations, which bothered me. Would like to see that list of 80 studies...
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25 reviews5 followers
April 27, 2021
In this book, Dr. Gold tells of how her world changed forever. She faces censorship, losing her job, and threats all because she wishes to proclaim the truth.

The book begins with Dr. Gold expressing her shock at so many medical professionals who are not thinking for themselves. At first she can’t believe it’s more than a joke, but as you read you will find just how serious the consequences for her actions are.

While I usually do not read non-fiction, this was a book that I encourage everyone to read. It’s very short but packed with information and things to get you thinking.

So many lies have been spread, stories written to cover up evidence, and certain groups of free-thinking people have been censored. This book will really make you think.

It’s not too technical and there aren’t many medical terms that are difficult to understand. Dr. Gold explains the situation of the U.S. very clearly and shows how we can stand up for truth and get the help we need.
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262 reviews2 followers
June 29, 2021
I have much respect for the doctors who are fighting back against the censorship MSM, big tech & big pharma have been doling out to these people. Dr. Gold is a board certified emergency room physician and an attorney and is the face of one of the grass roots groups aimed at circumventing MSM & social media where they have been regularly been censored & instead, taking the information directly to the people. (AFLDS dot org)

The information she wants the people to know includes that Covid-19 isn't as deadly as "they" (government, MSM, big tech, big pharma) want us to think it is. There are safe & OTC preventive supplements that can reduce the chances of one getting covid and/or reduce the symptoms if one gets covid. That hydroxychloroquine is VERY safe (FDA approved for over 60 years & proven safe in pregnant women) and is an effective treatment for covid. (She actually includes a copy of the white paper & addresses several points in it.)

Critical thinking involves educating ones self on the options and then making an informed decision. I would suggest everyone read this book (it's a short read) with an open mind. Use your life's experience and gut reaction for what makes sense vs what does not make sense and then make an informed decision for yourself.
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741 reviews51 followers
April 5, 2021
A must read. Simone Gold is honest, well qualified, professional, analytical, and not intimidated or bought.* This book is easy to read, though not as easy to swallow; for anyone interested in what's driving the loss of our civil liberties, the lack or misinformation, who the players are (media, government, big pharma, medical groups/doctors, America's Frontline Doctors, the patients and our communities) and some simple steps to reduce anxiety, take back your personal power to control and make decisions about your health.

I'm thankful for groups of professionals like America's Frontline Doctors who dare to be outspoken during these unprecedented times. I think the six recommendations for dealing with the confusing directives and information is very helpful as is the evidence and the trail leading to power and money.

To defend myself, as it's apparent that the media is definitely in control of the popular narrative around the pandemic, I am shocked by the politicization of medicine and health care. I am not far right or left and will never, even remotely support Donald Trump. I am very clearly against mandating vaccinations including negative consequences like fines, taxes, bullying, and limiting what someone can do or where they can go. The smears, mislabeling, and misrepresenting of Simone Golds' opinions and voice verges on the MacCarthy era tactics to me. I am however in the process of trying to read all sides to this story - and frankly, trying to keep myself away from the multimedia as much as my addiction will allow.

I gave the book 5-stars, not because it's a touching book well written, but because I hope more people read outside of the media, pharma, government narrative.

• Dr. Simone Gold is a medical doctor and lawyer (yes she holds 2 masters degrees!)
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9 reviews
October 3, 2021
Wherever there are vast amounts of money or power involved I tend to be skeptical right away of those who stand to gain. This book confirmed much of what I already suspected, I just wanted more proof and from people on the front lines of our "world crisis". Dr. Gold makes it quite clear, in my opinion, that there are and always have been excellent options other than a vaccine to treat TTTGA (that thing that's going around). I mean when you gather almost 1000 doctors behind you who believe the same thing and you go to the steps of the nation's capital to share your data, well, I think that is something worth listening to. She lost her job, the website her group created was shut down, and most were discredited for not following the science when that is precisely what they did. All she and her colleagues wanted to do was treat their patients with an extremely effective drug that has been around for nearly 100 years, approved by the FDA, and as safe as they come. Yet they were told they could not use it, and would be risking their careers if they did. If you want another viewpoint on 2020 other than what we are told by big media and big pharma, this is a super quick and enlightening read.
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March 6, 2021
Vital Information!

Throughout this pandemic I have been unable to understand the suppression of COVID-19 prevention and early treatment protocols. When has it ever been our policy to let patients sit home without treatment to see if they either recover or become sick enough to be hospitalized?

Dr. Gold’s book I Do Not Consent answered my questions from both medical and legal perspectives. Dr. Gold has the expertise and great courage to stand up for the medical community and humanity. It allows us to see the truth and to regain hope that we are not helpless during this pandemic.

It is vital information for all Americans who want to protect the freedoms we have always enjoyed, but equally valuable for our worldwide fellow human beings who have been enduring this pandemic and need hope and guidance.
16 reviews1 follower
July 17, 2021
Thank You, Dr. Gold. Inspiring…

A MUST READ. I hope Dr. Gold continues to practice as she is an asset to society. Thanks to her and all doctors who stood up and spoke against the misinformation and disinformation. Your sacrifices will be rewarded. May God protect you and continue to bless you.
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252 reviews5 followers
April 18, 2021
If you are wondering why Board Certified doctors were censored by Big Tech, Big Pharma and the media cabal of jackals, Dr. Simone Gold lays it all out in this well documented expose of the corrupt ruling class and their anti-American, authoritarian power-grab via COVID-19.

This will send a chill through any savvy reader with a pulse and a brain of his or her own.
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172 reviews3 followers
December 2, 2020
What if there were a simple, low cost, treatment available and it was systematically squashed. You would have to ask yourself, Cui Bono. "Who Benefits?" That is exactly what Dr. Gold asks and addresses in this eye opening book.
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8 reviews
April 6, 2021
In 2002 a virus from China called Sars co-v which was 78% similar to sars co-v 2, which is why they share a name, ripped through many countries. A study called “Chloroquine is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread” was published by Faucci’s NIH. The study demonstrated that chloroquine was effective in treating coronavirus.
I don’t know why Faucci said in 2020 that HCQ is not an effective treatment for SARS co-v 2 and I don’t care. All that matters is hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of that misinformation campaign that he and others perpetrated on the American people and all those who participated in it should be tried for crimes against humanity.
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