Posted on 03/25/2020 9:23:43 AM PDT by kiryandil
The 5 days of treatment for any patient. Pretty clear.
Do you see any dates of treatment? I didn’t. There can’t be too many because the disease has only been here for a few weeks. For him to have collected 500 patients or 350 or whatever he must have “formed his study group” very recently. He claimed people who were not terribly ill if they were all outpatients. His end point is “shed virus”. That may imply an outcome but it is damn far from proving anything. I have read this pathetic email 5 times now and each one was a waste of damn time.
As my professor of Pharmacology used to say, he could ladle carrot soup on a patient and write a damn paper. Funny, the first thing he told us is never prescribe a drug that has been on the market less than 2 years. Let other people discover the complications.
Then the deal is, find ships that still are in operation and sailing to South America or another tropical area, pick one and make a screen shot. Take it to the doctor and tell him you need malaria meds before this cruise you’ll be taking (but really won’t be). Doctors do this all the time for travelers.
There’s a government website that tells what drugs are suggested or required when visiting these ports.
OK. We each have our own approach.
My take is he is the doctor of this community and his 1st obligation was to keep them safe. In a patient sample of 350 he did not have one that needed to be hospitalized.
He thought that it was important that other doctors have knowledge of his patient experience for whatever use they could make of it. He is not a researcher, not pretending to be one.
Doctors are taught to share their case experience if it is unusual or could be useful to the medical community at large.
If you can afford to discard this knowledge rather than using it as grist for the mill, as part of the data using these drugs for COVID-19, that’s fine, up to you. Were I on this firing line I would appreciate having this data.
You mean the way Hydrxychloroquine is said to alter intercellular pH causing antiviral action?
Or that it facilitates entry of zinc into cells, where zinc inhibits viral replication?
Don’t know, don’t care. Al I want to know is does it work. Medical Students will have to know all that stuff because they will be “pimped” on it and made to look foolish to bully them into accepting a miserable life style.
I would much rather have access to the charts of every dead and seriously ill. Because I know what “science” is.
For example even when a cardiologist gave me a clean bill of health when she detected a EKG "anomaly", she talked me into getting a CT scan that detected a "very high calcified plaque score in in several of the coronary arteries." In the subsequent visit to the cardiologist, he explained that since I passed the stress test there was no need for surgical intervention, but they did modified my meds and said I should get 150 minutes of cardio exercise per week which I am doing.
She would give us those meds in a heartbeat.
Sounds like Joe "wastoute" Biden here fergot that you're talking about drugs that have been around for decades, JayGalt. 
This is advertising. Not science.
They haven’t treated a disease that has been here for weeks.
Is that where you learned to favor political inclinations over potential treatments for worldwide, economy-crippling pandemics, when there’s good clinical evidence that the treatment works?
Thanks for sharing
Advertising for what? This man is not looking for anything. He only wants to help the greater community by sharing his experience. He has done a mitzvah.
That you don’t care about hydroxychloroquine killing the virus is quite evident.
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