Posted on 12/13/2021 10:12:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A Mississippi doctor said he was fired for attempting to treat COVID-19 patients with ivermectin, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat parasites, although the hospital in question said he was not an employee but instead was an independent contractor.
Dr. John Witcher, an emergency room physician at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, said was “told not to come back” after taking several COVID-19 patients off Remdesivir, which is approved by the FDA to treat the virus, and allowed them to use ivermectin.
“I was very surprised that I was basically told to not come back at the end of the day,” Witcher said on the Stew Peters podcast.
“These patients were under my direct care, and so I felt like taking them off Remdesivir and putting them on ivermectin was the right thing to do at the time.”
Baptist Memorial told news outlets that Witcher “no longer practices medicine as an independent physician” at the Yazoo City facility, adding that he was an independent contractor, not an employee at the facility.
The hospital system said that it follows “the standards of care recommended by the scientific community and our medical team in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19” such as vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments.
But Witcher said that he was working at the Baptist Memorial emergency room when three new COVID-19 patients arrived on Dec. 10. They were prescribed Remdesivir, but Witcher said that he has concerns about the drug.
“I was there at the hospital for three days straight in the ER and so I felt like this would be a good opportunity to try ivermectin on these inpatient patients that I had been following very closely and just see how well it worked,” Witcher remarked.
The hospital couldn’t prescribe ivermectin, he said, adding that he had to call a local pharmacy.
The pharmacy, Witcher said, then delivered the drug to the hospital and switched their prescriptions from Remdesivir to ivermectin.
However, according to Witcher, Baptist Memorial severed ties with him before he could administer the ivermectin.
“There’s a first time for everything, but I wouldn’t say it was experimental,” he said.
“There’s been plenty of evidence with patients right here in Mississippi that have taken ivermectin, and they’ve done well.”
There have been reports of severe COVID-19 cases recovering from the disease after taking ivermectin, a relatively inexpensive drug compared to Remdesivir. A lawyer for the family of a 71-year-old man, Son Ng, told The Epoch Times earlier this month that Ng’s life was “most definitely” saved by taking ivermectin “because his condition changed right immediately after” he took the drug.
Baptist Memorial didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Depriving patients of the treatment Trump received - monoclonal antibodies - seems irresponsible.
Pharma = murder for profit.
RE: Depriving patients of the treatment Trump received - monoclonal antibodies - seems irresponsible.
If you read the article, the hospital is NOT withholding monoclonals from patients, it’s part of their treatment.
It’s Ivermectin they are against.
One has to wonder why. Ivermectin has saved many lives.
I don’t trust the Big Government, Big Pharma or Big Medical System, anymore.
“I was there at the hospital for three days straight in the ER and so I felt like this would be a good opportunity to try ivermectin on these inpatient patients that I had been following very closely and just see how well it worked,” Witcher remarked.”
So this ‘Doctor’ wanted to conduct an experiment on this patients?
Why not? Our government is conducting a massive experiment on its citizens.
The hospital is playing word games. True, technically a contractor is not an employee. But if the contractor derives his main income from a single employer, then the IRS would hold he was an employee. In any case, they aren’t denying they did it, just that he was not technically an employee. The point is he was trying to treat a patient with a known, working formula and they dismissed him for it. As he was not “technically” employed he has no rights under any labor laws except, he may have some rights under his contract. But I doubt it.
SeekAndFind wrote: “If you read the article, the hospital is NOT withholding monoclonals from patients, it’s part of their treatment.”
No, the hospital wasn’t withholding monoclonals from patients, it was this doctor: who “switched their prescriptions from Remdesivir to ivermectin.”
He should have been fired.
Deprivation of Ivermectin is kickback by Big Pharma.
Sorry, something smells very bad here with his story. An emergency room physician would not be in the position to take someone off of Remdesivir as that medications would be started after admission. If he were an ER physician, once the patient was admitted, the patient would be under the care of a hospitalist or intensivist and the ER physician would no longer be writing orders, even if the patient were in overflow status in the Emergency Room (physically domiciled in the ER pending a room to open up).
Finally, a physician would know if he were a direct employee able to be fired vs a member of the medical staff with privileges that would be very difficult to revoke.
I dont think this is physician is telling the truth. Looking to capitalize over ongoing political issues.
“..I don’t trust the Big Government, Big Pharma or Big Medical System, anymore....”
I guess it would be safe to say they’ve all lost total credibility with the People. IF they say the sky is blue, one better go outside and check for themselves. There is nothing coming out of these jackasses that’s credible anymore.
“Standard of Care” in most hospitals is a death sentence.
Partially true -
The EUA for Regeneron (the monoclonal antibody) only allows treatment prior to hospitalization / use of supplemental oxygen. Once you are checked into the hospital and/or put on supplemental O2, you can no longer receive Regeneron.
Short version of what follows - don’t let them check you into a hospital if you are still walking and able to find alternate treatment...
At that point the Medicare governed Standard of Care (Protocol) is Remdesivir which often confuses elderly patients who think that they are getting the “R” thing which they thought was good.
How do I know this - this happened to my Mother in Law who walked into the hospital on her own two feet breathing well but with 75-82% blood oxygen levels. They gave her the “R” thing on day 2 (we told her under NO circumstances let them give you Remdesivir and it was on her chart stating that) and an unknown level of vitamin supplements in her IV then added a BiPap breathing mask. On day 10 she passed away after being moved into “Compassionate Care” and declining the ventilator. They gave her one round of toxilizumab - which they deemed experimental (a different monoclonal antibody treatment originally developed for other diseases such as RA and not widely supported or known to help COVID patients)
No family members allowed into her room or even the glass wall outside it until the last few hours. Communication only by FaceTime - which became progressively harder. Dr would only speak to one appointed person 1 time per day to get any updates.
If she had turned around and walked out of the hospital and gone to a clinic to try getting the Regeneron and then gone home and taken the Ivermectin, Vitamin D3, Zinc, Vitamin C etc protocol (which she had available to her) then she would likely still be with us. She was overweight and had Adult onset diabetes - definitely NOT in her favor, but she had no chance really with the “Standard of Care”.
The Medicare bill - $99,000 - fortunately most/all covered by Medicare and/or FEMA, but the point being that the hospital is making substantial revenue from these situations.
This is intentional bureaucratic euthanasia IMO... The perps need to be held to account...
You are both wrong.
The hospital is said to use “Remdesivir,” which is a drug that has low efficacy against COVID-19.
“Regeneron” is the monoclonal, and it wasn’t being used.
“taking them off Remdesivir”?
This sounds like a refusal to murder patients. Of course, the administrators are unhappy.
fixed it
I stand corrected—I agree that neither the hospital nor the doctor were giving the monoclonals, which is not good.
It was only Seek and Find who’d said otherwise.
Hospital have forced many doctors into “independent contractor” status. A nephew’s wife is one such doctor.
The biggest reason is, since HIPPA and then after that Obamacare, is the very high cost of administration with all the mountain of additional paperwork requirements, and then there is the billing.
As an employee my nephews wife was not responsible for any billing that was not personally hers. As an “independent contractor” she is responsible for nearly 100% of the billing and paperwork requirements of nearly 100% of her activities at the hospital she works at - as “their” top infectious disease doctor.
Her day does not end when she leaves the hospital, usually not arriving home till sometime between 7 and 9pm. If my nephew does not have dinner ready yet (he works remotely from home), she sits at her computer in the kitchen, starting her night’s work of billing and required paperwork. She returns to doing that most nights between dinner and bedtime.
Of course whole staffs at the hospital were responsible for a lot of that when she was an employee and in her same role, as the top infectious disease specialist-doctor. Now with her work at home trying to finish her day, she works altogether at least 12 to fifteen hours a day. She told me once she feels like an intern all over again.
In some professions in some roles being an independent contractor is no picnic.
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