Sun Ng, 63, traveled from Hong Kong for his granddaughter Kaylie’s first birthday celebration on September 17. (Photo by daughter Man Kwan Ng as submitted to the court.)
Posted on 11/24/2021 1:50:47 PM PST by ransomnote
[H/T LilFarmer]
Sun Ng, a retired contractor from Hong Kong, traveled to Illinois to celebrate his only granddaughter’s first birthday. He got covid and was near death in a Chicago-area hospital. All other options were exhausted, but the hospital refused to give Mr. Ng a generic, FDA-approved drug with an extraordinary safety record that a doctor believed could safe his life.
Finally, a judge asked the right question about ivermectin.
“What’s the downside?”
Put another way: If a man is dying of covid in an ICU and all else has been tried, why not order a hospital to give a safe, last-ditch drug?
Edward Hospital, located near Chicago, offered three arguments as to why Sun Ng, seventy-one, should not be given ivermectin:
There could be side effects.
Ordering ivermectin would violate its policies.
Forcing the issue would be “extraordinary” judicial overreach.
On each argument, DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Paul Fullerton firmly disagreed.
“I can’t think of a more extraordinary situation than when we are talking about a man’s life,” he said in a November 5 decision that is a model of rational decision-making in an irrational era.
“I am not forcing this hospital to do anything other than to step aside,” he continued in a Zoom hearing. “I am just asking—or not asking—I am ordering through the Court’s power to allow Dr. Bain to have the emergency privileges and administer this medicine.”
The hospital ultimately stepped aside. Dr. Alan Bain, an internist, administered a five-day course of 24 milligrams of ivermectin, from November 8 through November 12.
Ng, who with his wife, Ying, had come from Hong Kong to celebrate their granddaughter’s birthday, was able to breathe without a ventilator within five days—he, in fact, removed the endotracheal himself. He left the ICU Tuesday, November 16, and, although confused and weak, was breathing Sunday without supplemental oxygen on a regular hospital floor.
“Every day after ivermectin, there was accelerated and stable improvement,” said Dr. Bain, who administered the drug in two previous court cases after hospitals refused. “Three times we’ve shown something,” he told me. “There’s a signal of benefit for ventilator patients.”
Ng’s remarkable progress stands in sharp relief to the repeated attempts by Edward-Elmhurst Health, the hospital’s managing system, to thwart the use of ivermectin. It succeeded in having the court’s initial November 1 order dismissed by claiming Ng was in better health than his lawsuit contended (he wasn’t). It then defied the November 5 order, saying Dr. Bain was not vaccinated (a negative test resolved the issue).
Moreover, after Ng’s treatment was complete, the hospital system filed notice that it would appeal the order that had already been carried out. It did this even though Sun Ng seemed to have benefited greatly.
The patient’s improvement, or condition generally, did not seem to matter.
At the outset, the hospital argued against court intervention, saying, “Mr. Ng is not terminal at this point.” But it was forced to admit that he had for days teetered on the brink of death after Ng’s daughter and only child, Man Kwan Ng, spoke to a hospital doctor November 3—and took copious notes that were submitted to the court.
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change the policy. what a bunch of evil bastards!
This was a very moving story, and the picture of Mr. Ng with his grand baby made me tears. God bless the judge for doing the right thing.
Brandon and Fauci murdered at least hundreds of thousand of people by restricting Ivermectin and prolonging the pandemics; this needs to end.
got mine thru FLCCC
there have been other cases like this. hospitals still fight it. i think FDA/CDC is controlling this.
crime against humanity
The war on ivermectin and HCQ/zinc has killed 3/4 of a million Americans.
Hospitals won’t get their remdisiver and death bounties if they let ivermectin have a foot in the door
Moreover, after Ng’s treatment was complete, the hospital system filed notice that it would appeal the order that had already been carried out. It did this even though Sun Ng seemed to have benefited greatly.
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A sign of mass hysteria or mass formation is persisting in an action even in the face of contravening evidence.
I heard about this story a few weeks back. Thanks for posting a follow-up. Good news for this family.
There is no reimbursement based on administration or non administration of remdesivir. And the ruling is good. There is a right to try. But remember the order is for the hospital to get out of the way. However as some of my colleagues have pointed out demand of a treatment does not equate to a duty to treat on behalf of the physician. A court cannot compel or mandate that a physician write certain orders.
I think the courts should be careful around substituting judgment in terms of treatments. If there is a properly licensed physician width privileges in that hospital is willing to write the order the hospital should get out of the way. However it is one step away from a court ordering a doc to so something which would be quite dangerous.
Most doctors and nearly all hospitals can no longer be trusted.
That damned judge might ruin Pfizer’s Thanksgiving with talk like that.
Thanks, RN!
Bkmk
What is FLCCC?
Impeach 46 and his mandate.
But Big Pharma doesn’t make $hit when ivermectin is used. And Big Pharma doesn’t want anyone to think that there is an effective treatment that is cheap and doesn’t force the public to be ripped off by Big Pharma. And what about all of their research costs for the vaccines? They MUST recover that and much more for “helping” the public with the vaccine. Why would anyone want to live if they knew Big Pharma didn’t make money on the treatments?
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