This past Tuesday (March 1st) a group of medical providers, including myself, presented concerns regarding our state’s handling of COVID to a couple dozen legislators. The format was in a round table discussion where each of the medical providers had a chance to tell 'our story’. The most moving story was that of a nurse practitioner who witnessed the death of several women who came to the hospital pregnant and sick with COVID. The babies were taken in an emergency C-section but the mothers were left to die under the NIH dictated protocol of Remdesivir and mechanical ventilation. She said that nurses would advocate for other forms of intervention but the doctors would deny. Additionally she recalled how the doctors would not even go into the room to see the patient because of their fear of getting COVID so instead they sent in the nurses to check stats and deliver treatment.
This particular nurse was pregnant in March of 2020 and she never hesitated to do her job, it did not occur to her to bail out and stay home because of her pregnancy. She went to work and cared for her patients. As she witnessed the one size fits all treatment protocols killing her patients and the complete disregard for other medical interventions (think Ivermectin), she opted to join some other concerned providers to start a private online health clinic to treat patients with compassion and successful protocols.
A pediatrician told her story about her research into the COVID shots and the known side effects that were being seen in pediatric patients. She observed the lack of proper informed consent being given to parents and told her clinic that she could not participate in giving these shots to children. It was against her clinical judgement and she was fired from her position. She has since joined a private practice where she is free to use her best clinical judgement with the children entrusted to her care.
A physician who has his own private practice treated over 2500 patients with protocols based on his clinical judgement and research he obtained from doctors such as Peter McCullough, Paul Marek and Pierre Cory—true pandemic heroes. He only had a dozen or so need hospitalization. Of those who were taken over by hospital care, one died. He has had 25 inquiries requiring investigation presented to the medical board. These reports to the medical board were not made by the patients he treated but by onlookers (think Facebook, Twitter) who found out that these patients were taking such dangerous drugs as HCQ or Ivermectin. These actions against his license have taken his time away from caring for patients to deal with lawyers and the board. None have caused any disciplinary action against this doctor but the frivolous nature of these inquiries has burdened the patient/doctor relationship.
I highlight the word private not because of exclusivity but to stress the need of these providers to leave the corporate run institutions that receive their dictate from the government controlled NIH. The doctors can no longer treat the patient using their own judgement, they must follow the orders of the three letter agencies. As another doctor presented, what is the point of the years of training and financial debt incurred to become a physician if one can’t then use sound clinical experience and judgement to treat a patient?? When 20-40% of medications prescribed annually have been used ‘off label’ for years, why all of a sudden can doctors not use safe drugs that have been around for decades to treat a novel virus??
These questions and many others were posed on Tuesday evening. The legislators listened intently and had many sincere questions of their own. They expressed an urgency to come up with action items that would preserve the doctor/patient relationship and an accountability of hospitals for the deaths our state experienced. There is a lot to be done! So much damage to undo to be able to move forward and prevent this from happening again. Fortunately there are some very brave men and women who are part of this medical freedom group willing to sacrifice leisure and family time to advocate for the Hippocratic Oath, above all else, DO NO HARM!
I want to close expressing gratitude to my father. When I left for dental school in the late 90s, he warned me about being part of a corporate practice. He could see what was happening in medicine and he had concerns that dentistry would follow suit. He was right, my profession is becoming more and more of a corporate model of insurance companies ‘buying’ dentists. I am grateful that I heeded his warning and took on the challenge of private practice so that I could have the freedom to exercise the best care for my patients. This freedom also allowed me not to mandate any health decisions on my staff. This freedom gave me the ability to stand with these other medical providers to fight for the doctor/patient relationship to occur in the treatment room, not some government or corporate office miles away from the clinical diagnosis.
Consider these things as you are looking for a provider. It may cost a little more to seek care from a private practice. Generally these doctors are going to strive to have a compassionate bed side manner and to provide the best care they can offer because they are winning the trust of each individual patient. Their ability to earn an income, maintain a caring staff and provide for their families isn’t based on following government orders, it is based on an honest doctor/patient relationship developed through decades of study and years of experience.
Dr. Jessica, your dad sounds awesome and was clearly a smart man. Your patients are lucky to have you. Thank goodness my dentists are a father/daughter team in private practice with a loyal staff. You are spot on