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Family Fights for Ivermectin for Dying Loved One, Courts Say 'No'
PJ Media ^ | 01/16/2022 | Kevin Downey Jr.

Posted on 01/16/2022 4:30:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Daniel Pisano is dying of COVID-19. He’s been on ventilator in Florida for 28 days now at the Mayo Clinic. His doctors give him a less than 5% chance of survival.

His wife and son want him treated with the COVID plan recommended by Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). It involves using ivermectin. They want Dr. Eduardo Balbona to treat their family member. The Mayo Clinic refused. The family went to court, hoping the court would force the clinic to allow an outside doctor to treat Pisano. Judge Marianne Aho decided against it.

They appealed that decision and lost that court battle, too. They don’t get to decide what course to take for the 70-year-old Pisano.

The Mayo Clinic asserted that the FLCCC COVID battle plan doesn’t fall in line with their COVID protocol, which at this point appears to be to leave Pisano on a ventilator and hope for the best. This, despite hundreds of stories of people using ivermectin to survive COVID.

Jonathan Bowling and his family have several comorbidities which make recovering from COVID-19 much more difficult. Watch his story as he credits the FLCCC protocol for saving their lives after they fell ill with the disease:

https://t.co/DagGiMqjJy pic.twitter.com/A7Toe2B49V

— FLCCC—Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (@Covid19Critical) January 8, 2022

Ivermectin is a drug used for livestock but it’s also been used for decades on humans. Numerous peer-reviewed studies show ivermectin can help people with the Bat Soup flu.

Why doesn’t a family have any say in the care of a loved one? More importantly, why would the Mayo Clinic allow people to die rather than try ivermectin? What’s stopping them?

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; courts; icu; ivermectin; lawsuit; ounceofprevention
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1 posted on 01/16/2022 4:30:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Dr. Balbona is a former physician at the U.S. Capitol, where he treated members of Congress and the Supreme Court. He has had a lot of success with ivermectin and the FLCCC therapeutic suggestions, though he admits to tweaking dosages. He stated he has cured “dozens and dozens” of seriously ill COVID patients.

He also faces an ongoing assault against his practices, even though he’s been successful. He frequently comes to his office and hears messages like this on his voicemail ,

Your license should be revoked, you worthless piece of garbage. You are killing people, not helping them, and to harass the Mayo Clinic, because you are not good enough to be their doctor is disgusting. Disgusting. You and doctors like you should all be banned from society. Shame on you. Disgusting. Goodbye and good riddance. I hope you get COVID. Goodbye.

2 posted on 01/16/2022 4:32:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Death from doctors with Trump Derangement Syndrome?


3 posted on 01/16/2022 4:32:51 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

FACT-O-RAMA! Ivermectin has been approved for use against COVID in 22 countries.


4 posted on 01/16/2022 4:33:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Why don’t they just take him to a different doctor. This doesn’t make sense.


5 posted on 01/16/2022 4:35:34 PM PST by NowApproachingMidnight (Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mayo is in On It.


6 posted on 01/16/2022 4:36:14 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Doing everything they can to stop COVID are they ,D’oh


7 posted on 01/16/2022 4:36:56 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

The Vaxcists will let you die to stay on script.


8 posted on 01/16/2022 4:37:40 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

RE: Why don’t they just take him to a different doctor. This doesn’t make sense.

Read the article. It says: They want Dr. Eduardo Balbona to treat their family member. The Mayo Clinic refused. The family went to court, hoping the court would force the clinic to allow an outside doctor to treat Pisano. Judge Marianne Aho decided against it.


9 posted on 01/16/2022 4:38:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Get another doctor and then sue the hospital out of existence.


10 posted on 01/16/2022 4:38:17 PM PST by ModernDayCato (Noah was a conspiracy theorist until it started raining. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Did the judge shorten her last name?


11 posted on 01/16/2022 4:39:14 PM PST by ryderann
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
"Why don’t they just take him to a different doctor."

He is essentially kidnapped.

12 posted on 01/16/2022 4:39:21 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Could you get him Out of MAYO?


13 posted on 01/16/2022 4:39:32 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The patient is to be depopulated. They, being the fascist medical community in collusion with the wold government, have outlawed early treatment and prophylactics to ensure the outcome and to gather data for a worse outcome yet to occur.

This is the preparation.


14 posted on 01/16/2022 4:40:44 PM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why doesn’t a family have any say in the care of a loved one?

They do, but they don't write the orders.

More importantly, why would the Mayo Clinic allow people to die rather than try ivermectin?

Because the Mayo Clinic does not believe ivermectin to be effective or even helpful in end stage COVID disease.

15 posted on 01/16/2022 4:41:06 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

hospital won’t release him. It’s pretty common for a hospital to fight a family who wants to transfer a loved one out for any reason.

I suspect it’s a follow the money thing and the STUPID CDC/Fedgov death protocols for “treatment” of covid.


16 posted on 01/16/2022 4:41:58 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: SeekAndFind

What happened to the Right To Try law?


17 posted on 01/16/2022 4:42:50 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

From what I’ve read, Ivermectin is an effective treatment if used shortly after being diagnosed with Covid. Once your in the hospital (in bad shape), it is not as useful or effective.


18 posted on 01/16/2022 4:43:31 PM PST by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They need to hold the Mayo.


19 posted on 01/16/2022 4:43:37 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

So there are a lot of interesting issues here — and I am presenting the factors, not commenting on the use of Ivermectin. My position on ivermectin is that it is inferior to monoclonals, and doesnt work in late phase disease. However, I support the autonomy of physicians to prescribe as they see fit and there is significant amount of literature both ways that there is no clear ability to definitely say one way or another what to do.

But here are the issues the court must resolve.

1. Mayo Clinic operate hospitals in three states — Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida. My guess (although the article does not say) is the this is a Minnesota cause of action. It fits with the paradigm of a very liberal state. I think in Florida, there would be a more receptive judiciary, and Arizona, who the hell knows — it is the Wild West.

2. We know how different rulings in different states. One one hand this is regulated by the STATE board of medicine, but I suspect that an enterprising attorney COULD get this removed to federal court, and then it will wind its way to the Supreme Court.

3. The other issue is that you have to be credentialed at a hospital to practice medicine at that hospital. (Privileges). Can the court insert someone onto a medical staff against the private companies will? It is a dangerous precedent and may yield litigation for staff privileges where a hospital might otherwise decline a physician to join staff. Private company versus federal government issue.

4. The duty to treat does not equal the duty to respond to demands for a therapy. While I admit this it reductio a absurdum, what if I had a patient say they wanted hemlock to cure a disease because some internet sensation said it could help? Can a court force another physician on staff to do something that is dangerous? Could a court compel me to do this? I would refuse an obviously dangerous treatment, but this is what is at the end of the skippers slope.

There are an awful lot of very intriguing and difficult issues to consider. I am NOT looking to have arguments, I am just looking to discuss the very broad issues that exist here.


20 posted on 01/16/2022 4:43:46 PM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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