Commendably, it sounds as if you’ve done your best to set everyone straight. Once certain patients are committed to nonvaccination, however, you are not free to make decisions that could reasonably be viewed as punitive. You can certainly insist on their keeping away from the premises if they pose a genuine risk to others in your practice. But that shouldn’t be the case, given that your patients are mostly vaccinated (and your staff entirely so) and that you’ll presumably require unvaccinated patients to wear masks and practice social distancing.
When unvaccinated patients ask for an appointment, you can routinely offer teleconsultations (in circumstances where this is a medically sound option), explaining that, in your view, every trip puts them at further risk of contracting or transmitting infection. That’s a good way of keeping before them the fact that a relevant expert in their lives has a different view from theirs. Still, these exasperating people should be free to ignore your very sound advice and remain in your care.
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