AusDoc Magazine 5/2/2025 by Heather Saxena:
The former GP registrar who successfully beat an emergency suspension for his anti-COVID-19 vaccine rant at an AMA conference finally returned to practice last week.
But Dr William Bay’s GP job lasted just three days.
After the practice discovered his background, it was mutually agreed that Dr Bay would leave.
Dr Bay was suspended in 2022 after shouting at the AMA National Conference for doctors “to stop forcing these vaccines on people who are getting killed by them”.
He won a self-represented legal challenge to his emergency suspension last December after AHPRA conceded it had not given him a fair chance to respond to the complaints and that the case had a “reasonable apprehension of bias”.
This was because board chair Dr Anne Tonkin was on stage during the rant, spoke with one of the doctors who complained about Dr Bay and then chaired his emergency suspension hearing.
Last week, Dr Bay announced on social media that he had secured a telehealth job with Atticus Health, which runs several GP practices, aged care services and corporate health clinics.
In an interview with an anti-COVID-19 vaccine Facebook group, Dr Bay said getting back to medical practice was harder than he expected but many “good doctors” were “willing to take a risk on me”.
“So what if there has been controversy? So what if there has been some notoriety about me?
“The point of the matter is that I am a good doctor, I am an ethical doctor and I beat AHPRA at its own bloody game, which was outlasting the tyrants.”
Atticus Health’s founder, GP Dr Floyd Gomes, told AusDoc that he was unfamiliar with Dr Bay’s history when offering him the job.
“He had made us aware that he had an AHPRA complaint that was overturned,” said Dr Gomes
“I was not aware of all the exact details as I did not interview him myself and had not come across his name before in the media.
“After meeting with him and understanding his situation in more detail, we both agreed that it was most appropriate that he stop working at Atticus Health.”
Dr Gomes said Dr Bay worked for three days and “saw the usual number of patients you would expect to see in a private GP clinic”.
He would not say how he became aware of Dr Bay’s history.
However, several social media users claimed they had written to Atticus Health criticising it for hiring Dr Bay.
AHPRA has been considering a new complaint about Dr Bay regarding “multiple” statements he allegedly made about COVID-19 vaccines and ivermectin.
On social media, Dr Bay said his medical indemnity policy specifically denied him cover for any allegations of “improper social media use”.
He added that he was considering going into politics.
The former GP registrar who successfully beat an emergency suspension for his anti-COVID-19 vaccine rant at an AMA conference finally returned to practice last week.
But Dr William Bay’s GP job lasted just three days.
After the practice discovered his background, it was mutually agreed that Dr Bay would leave.
Dr Bay was suspended in 2022 after shouting at the AMA National Conference for doctors “to stop forcing these vaccines on people who are getting killed by them”.
He won a self-represented legal challenge to his emergency suspension last December after AHPRA conceded it had not given him a fair chance to respond to the complaints and that the case had a “reasonable apprehension of bias”.
This was because board chair Dr Anne Tonkin was on stage during the rant, spoke with one of the doctors who complained about Dr Bay and then chaired his emergency suspension hearing.
Last week, Dr Bay announced on social media that he had secured a telehealth job with Atticus Health, which runs several GP practices, aged care services and corporate health clinics.
In an interview with an anti-COVID-19 vaccine Facebook group, Dr Bay said getting back to medical practice was harder than he expected but many “good doctors” were “willing to take a risk on me”.
“So what if there has been controversy? So what if there has been some notoriety about me?
“The point of the matter is that I am a good doctor, I am an ethical doctor and I beat AHPRA at its own bloody game, which was outlasting the tyrants.”
Atticus Health’s founder, GP Dr Floyd Gomes, told AusDoc that he was unfamiliar with Dr Bay’s history when offering him the job.
“He had made us aware that he had an AHPRA complaint that was overturned,” said Dr Gomes
“I was not aware of all the exact details as I did not interview him myself and had not come across his name before in the media.
“After meeting with him and understanding his situation in more detail, we both agreed that it was most appropriate that he stop working at Atticus Health.”
Dr Gomes said Dr Bay worked for three days and “saw the usual number of patients you would expect to see in a private GP clinic”.
He would not say how he became aware of Dr Bay’s history.
However, several social media users claimed they had written to Atticus Health criticising it for hiring Dr Bay.
AHPRA has been considering a new complaint about Dr Bay regarding “multiple” statements he allegedly made about COVID-19 vaccines and ivermectin.
On social media, Dr Bay said his medical indemnity policy specifically denied him cover for any allegations of “improper social media use”.
He added that he was considering going into politics.
