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I actively prescribed ivermectin. I had good (not great) results, but used it in hospital patients. Three weeks ago, I went to order it for a patient and I was blocked from doing so by the policy of the hospital chain. I was not permitted to order it and the pharmacy was not permitted to dispense it.

This is not my choice, however after taking it up the chain I was told it was a corporate decision. Now, tell me how I have failed miserably.

Also I have advocated vociferously on this forum that ivermectin is superior to HCQ. And I hear pushback, but ok

As part of the treatment of this disease, I advocate the gold standard — that prevention is superior to cure and vaccination is a key, and I get called among other things — a fraud, a sheep, not a doctor, probably an LPN, and one of the freepers just last night tried to dox me.

The point is that if you think medical professionals have to agree with you. it is pointless. Quercitin is weak HCQ is ok for prohylaxis, not treatment, ivermectin is not a sure fire cure for anything but it is better than none. We have been trying to confer basic knowledge, but called part of the problem because many are so sure that they are correct they do not bother to research the conditions of how we are required to practice and do not want to hear what they disagree with.

I think you and I find each other in good company. From my last comment (while the good doctors with boots on the ground trying to save lives advocate for ivermectin, the bureaucratic medical "leadership" looks the other way), it sounds like you are on the boots-on-the-ground team and not the bureaucratic-medical-leadership team. I respect you for that.

Please don't take my statement regarding the healthcare professionals failing us miserably personally. I meant it generally, and in the future I will make an effort to state the "professional healthcare system has failed us miserably" to mark the distinction. I recognize there is a subset within the medical professional community whose hands are tied by "leadership", yourself included, as well as friends of mine. Others are all too willing to tow the bureaucratic line, because it is just a job and a paycheck to them. That is where malfeasance rears its ugly head.

When you state that you are "called part of the problem because many are so sure that they are correct they do not bother to research the conditions of how we are required to practice", I think you really hit the nail on the head, and I empathize. It is not that you, personally, have set yourself to be part of the problem. It is that you are *required to practice* under certain conditions not driven by the best care for your patient that *make you a part* of the larger system that is a problem.

Until we solve that problem, you will always be subject to higher-ups controlling what you can prescribe, accepting blame from the intelligent patients, and a calculated percentage of them will fail to thrive accordingly. And that's just wrong.

Quercetin may not be quite as effective as hydroxychloroquine. And hydroxychloroquine might not be quite as effective as ivermectin. But I can and have pointed ill people to the Marik protocol as a means of working around doctors unwilling or unable to help, and everyone I am aware of thus far who has given it a shot has thrived. It's certainly better than the alternative decline toward that date with a ventilator.

The EVMS doctors have saved lives by having the courage to publish a protocol that allows intelligent people to navigate around the roadblocks in the system. I try to connect intelligent people with the protocols that may help them, and the feedback I've received from the success stories is far more rewarding than a paycheck. Thank you for your efforts to mitigate this illness!