Posted on 05/17/2020 1:56:42 PM PDT by ransomnote
After outrage from grassroots Texans, state bureaucrats backed down on requiring physicians to submit a written diagnosis when prescribing a drug claimed to have had very positive results treating the Chinese coronavirus.
As previously reported, Dr. Ivette Lozano claimed she hit a brick wall from the Texas Board of Pharmacy when trying to prescribe hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus patients at her clinic. Lozano also said she believed such a requirement was a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
She reached out to State Sen. Bob Hall (R–Edgewood), who confirmed the board had not only mandated that physicians provide a written diagnosis with a prescription for the medication, but pharmacists could deny the prescription if its intended use—in this case, treating the coronavirus—wasn’t among the ones listed on its label by the Food and Drug Administration.
Hall argued prescribing medications for uses other than what is on its label is a “well-known, well-accepted practice” and challenged the board on these new restrictions.
The board responded by reversing its decision, allowing off-label prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine but still requiring a written diagnosis.
Yet after a grassroots outcry, the board backed down again and amended their guidance, adding, “[T]he intended use for the drug is not required if the practitioner determines the furnishing of this information is not in the best interest of the patient in accordance with Board rule 291.34 (b)(7).”
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PharmD pricks in action.
They are used to controlling doctors in hospitals.
This is where they can get sued big time if a patient dies and they blocked that patient’s doctor from writing this rx for the patient.
Texas needs her right where she is- prescribing the “Trump pills” to patients with the WuhanVirus.
As soon as possible; lives are at stake...
There’s so much BS going around about HCQ. Like heart trouble. So I looked up the John’s Hopkins info about HCQ and Lupus. NO MENTION OF HEART ISSUES AT ALL. The only bad side effect was eye issues AFTER 5 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS DAILY USE. Lupus patients call it their daily candy. Daily. Long Term. No monitoring required. Heart is not an issue.
So what are we talking about? Short term use WITH ZINC and a Z-pack at doses not out of line with the Lupus protocol. So docs just sit on their hands when the have nothing else to use until the patient crashes??? Oh, Orange Man Bad. I guess that’s why.
Some communities are releasing "the people" from low-level government mandates. "Let my people go" is from the spiritual "Go Down Moses," a phrase from the Book of Exodus 5:1: "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, "Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Let my people go that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness."
Now, despite the awful and bewildering plague which has invaded our land and destroyed our beloved people, God's grace and mercy remain available to us and there are evils which must be resisted and destroyed.
It’s not just Texas.
Below, the link shows the pharmacy rules by state and there’s more than one with “attitude” problems.
https://naspa.us/resource/hydroxychloroquine-chloroquine-and-azithromycin/
Winning!
Horray for Dr. Lozano......she exposed this crap. She’s a heroine in this sea of confusion and mayhem......
We are witness to a titanic struggle between Big Pharma profiteers and and an inexpensive, generic known cure being used in nearly every country on the planet for CV-19.
“As soon as possible; lives are at stake!”
Exactly correct. The use of hydroxychoralquindine with azithromycin and zinc in the late stage of the disease has not been good. In reality once you go on a ventilator you will probably die. Your lungs have been devastated by a cytokine storm. It is over. 80 percent die once on the vent. The reason they are on the vent as respiratory function is shutting down. They will probably die.
The use of this three drug therapy as been most excellent if used early. It works if used early. If one needs a vent it is mostly over as in death. The disease at this point has devastated your lungs. You will probably die, actually 80% die. Just say good bye to your loved ones. It is probably over. At this point the three drug therapy may save you but not likely. It must be used at the first suspicion of the disease. It is cheap and even if you do not have it but have symptoms it is wise to take it.
There has been much Bull Shit about the cardiac problems with this drug. It is real but very rare. I myself took it for a couple of years in Nigeria. I took it due to Malaria. We all took it and did not drop dead. We did not want to catch Malaria.
The danger is an abnormal conduction problem in the heart which is rare. The danger of Corona in a susceptible group is far greater.
Needs to go national
The DeepState infection has spread to many states.
Wow, entire countries on this planet are using this medication to treat covid but the leftwing health lobby in the USA has thrown up hurdles to patient-DR choice by threatening the pharmacist! How outrageous!
There’s a lot of prescription medicines that come under annual constraints, that is, unless you see the doctor again, after a year you can no longer get them. While of course, many drugs need periodic blood tests and things, there are many that could be taken for years or decades without needing changes from a doctor, so it is a waste of time and money to require medical follow ups.
So there should be a review of such drugs. If someone has no need to see a doctor, they should not be compelled to do so, as this drives up the cost of medical care for all.
The Texas Board of Pharmacy is obviously another rats nest.
Dr. Ivette Lozano - more proof it’s worth fighting the petty tyrants.
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