An Iowa physician who has been critical of mask mandates and the COVID-19 vaccine is now suing a Missouri hospital over its staff-vaccination requirements.
In an August 2023 posting to X, James announced she was suing the Missouri hospital where she worked in 2021 before the facility began requiring COVID-19 vaccinations of the staff, writing, "Guess who's getting sued?!? My former employer - Mercy St. Louis fired me after 5 years of employment from my virtual ICU job - because they refused to acknowledge my religious exemption. It's time for Christians to fight for our religious beliefs."
According to the lawsuit, James applied for a religious exemption and wrote on the application that "Healing power is from God alone" and she "Takes direction and guidance treatments from Him and Him alone." She also indicated she was "Guided by God" to decline the vaccine.
James then sought a right-to-sue letter from the Missouri Commission on Human Rights.
After she refused to comply with the vaccine mandates at Mercy St. Louis and lost her job, James filed for bankruptcy and established The James Clinic in Chariton where, she says online, "Doctors are doctors again."
James has not responded to messages from Iowa Capital Dispatch, but she has spoken publicly about her medical philosophy on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, talk radio and conservative podcasts.
James' social media posts contradict federal advice on COVID. In past posts to Twitter and other social media, James has called face masks silly, ineffective "Face diapers," called Fauci "Evil," and said of ivermectin, the so-called horse dewormer used by some to treat COVID-19, "There's no medicine that's safer on the planet."
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