COVID19 Re_ Removal Bukacek from Health Board Public Comment from Betty Kuffel, MD FACPFrom:Betty Kuffel
To:Kalispell City Council
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Re: Removal Bukacek from Health Board
Date:Wednesday, April 15, 2020 10:06:33 AM
Attention: All Council Members
As an internal medicine physician with decades of experience and a member of the American
College of Physicians and a FACP, I must protest the appointment of Ann M. Bukacek, MD, FACP, to
the Flathead City-County Health Board. She must be removed. This physician has publicly announced
conspiracy and anti-science views that are dangerous and possibly deadly to the people of Montana.
We are faced with a pandemic sweeping the world and the United States, with people falling ill and
dying in Montana. Dr. Bukacek has recommended the residents of Montana disregard the
recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the order by Governor
Bullock to practice social distancing and stay-at-home to stop spread of the disease. This course is
guaranteed to cause more illness and death. She also is strongly opposed to vaccination which is the
only hope of controlling the pandemic once a vaccine does become available.
Her video at Liberty Fellowship MT with 716,000 views spews conspiracies and contradicts health
experts. As a physician member of the American College of Physicians she is supposed to be an
advocate for health, human rights and well-being of the public. Instead, she is in ethical violation of
her position in the ACP and putting people in danger.
Her anti-vaxxer views and position on the Pro-Life Coalition make it unlikely she can divorce herself
from such views and provide fair, objective science-based healthcare and professional guidance to
the population of Flathead County.
Dr. Bukacek is unqualified to be on the Board of Health and should never have been considered for
the position because of her extremist views.
Who on the board is educated and qualified to be making decisions affecting the health and welfare
of Montana residents?
Betty Kuffel, MD FACPWhitefish, MT