Posted on 08/01/2023 5:25:15 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
After they struggled with COVID-19 symptoms for two weeks, Joel Mahoney drove his parents to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport, where his mother, Nancy Mahoney, was admitted on Dec. 19, 2021 for complaints of labored breathing, fatigue and a cough. She was treated for COVID pneumonia that required supplemental oxygen.
She told the hospitalist treating her that a doctor, Ellsworth internist Meryl Nass, had diagnosed her with COVID “over the phone” earlier that month and prescribed a five-day supply of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin.
The proponents of using the drug to treat COVID have been roundly criticized, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned it should not be used to prevent or treat the virus.
The hospitalist reported Nass to the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine the same day Nancy Mahoney was hospitalized, according to disciplinary documents, and the board subsequently suspended Nass’ license.
In the 18 months since, Nass and her disciplinary case have become a cause for anti-vaccination advocates, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and far-right publications. She’s vigorously fighting her suspension, and RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advocacy group is paying Nass’ legal fees, she said.
She appears to welcome the publicity.
At one point, when Nass informed Joel Mahoney in a text message that the board subpoenaed his mother’s medical records, Nass wrote, “I know some crack attorneys. I certainly was hoping to make a public spectacle of an investigation."
On Friday, Nass’ adjudicatory hearing wrapped up its sixth full day. The first hearing date was over nine months ago. Closing arguments and board deliberations will be scheduled for a later date.
The board’s grounds for disciplinary actions — which have been amended three times, with some allegations removed — include 13 violations related to patient care and competence, medical recordkeeping, “truth-telling and misrepresentation” and failure to comply with the board’s complaint notification and subpoenas in a timely manner.
The violations are based on her care of three patients, including Nancy Mahoney. Each was prescribed ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, to prevent or treat COVID-19. In each instance, disciplinary records say, Nass never met the patients and only conducted care via telehealth, in which, among other allegations, Nass failed to establish a proper physician-patient relationship, and maintain complete medical records and documentation.
She is also accused of “fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” for allegedly lying to a pharmacist that a prescription for hydroxychloroquine was to treat Lyme disease; the patient was not diagnosed with Lyme disease. Nass told the board in a Dec. 11, 2021, email that she was “forced” to lie “as this was the only way to get a potentially life-saving drug for my patient.” She repeated that she lied in a virtual hearing with state lawmakers days later.
Despite her displeasure with the length of the proceedings, Nass said following Friday’s hearing that she has succeeded in making her case a “spectacle.”
Each day of the hearing has been live streamed on the website and YouTube channel of Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group chaired by Kennedy, which Nass said has garnered 180,000 viewers on at least one occasion. Kennedy, a longshot candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, has been sharply denounced for spreading anti-vaccine misinformation.
The Epoch Times, a far-right international media company, made a documentary claiming Nass is “one of many doctors whose medical license is being threatened for deviating from official COVID guidelines.”
Earlier this year she appeared on media personality Drew Pinsky’s podcast and YouTube show, “Ask Dr. Drew,” where she claimed the complaints the board received about her “were fabricated by activists using targeted harassment to censor her freedom of speech.”
The Washington Post included the Nass case in an article last week that analyzed disciplinary records from medical boards in all 50 states. “Across the country, doctors who jeopardized patients’ lives by pushing medical misinformation during the pandemic and its aftermath have faced few repercussions," the Post reported.
Nass’ practice has alarmed healthcare professionals. For example, Renata Moise, a certified nurse-midwife in Ellsworth, told the board that one of her pregnant patients was taking hydroxychloroquine prescribed by Nass.
In an email to the board, a copy of which she shared with The Post, Moise wrote: “When Dr. Nass promotes, prescribes, or advises treatments for COVID-19 which are not among the approved or recommended treatments, it hampers our ability here … to promote the public health factors necessary for controlling the pandemic.”
Nass said Friday that she has treated “hundreds” more patients with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Ivermectin is most commonly used to treat worm infections in humans but also has veterinary applications, primarily for horses. Hydroxychloroquine is similarly an antiparasitic drug, and is typically used for malaria treatment and prevention, and to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The FDA has not approved ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19 and issued a warning against using hydroxychloroquine outside of hospital settings or clinical trials due to serious heart risks.
Mike Balos, a pastor at Maine Street Church in Brunswick, and Sarah Bishop, a mother of four in Ellsworth and Moise’s patient, said at Friday’s hearing they found Nass’ name in a provider directory on Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance’s website. FLCCCA was founded in the early days of the pandemic and endorses widely discredited “treatment protocols” for COVID.
Nass’ team called Mahoney, Balos and Bishop, identified as patients 1, 2 and 3, respectively, in the disciplinary documents, to testify Friday. Each said they were satisfied with Nass’ care.
Balos, like Mahoney, sought Nass for an ivermectin prescription to use “prophylactically” and he, too, was hospitalized in December 2021 with severe COVID. According to patient records subpoenaed by the board, Balos was admitted to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick on Dec. 16. He was intubated two days later and was on mechanical ventilation for 13 days. He was discharged Jan. 4.
Nass said the allegations against her have “no legal justification” and is a “spurious, illegal, unjustified, without-grounds prosecution” to go after her license.
The medical board did not respond to a request for comment Friday evening.
Give her Remdesivir and watch her die.
Over 400 Congressmen and their families received Ivermectin from the Congressional Health Service.
Big reimbursements for the hospital with that approach. They’d get nothing if Ivermectin were used and it worked.
Agree. They used every liberal buzz word in the progressive dictionary. It was almost like St. Antonio De Fauci wrote it.
Still useful, so I’ll post. In particular, the meta study link indicates effectiveness. This is a drug that should be OTC, is in much of the world. It has a safety profile significantly better than Tylenol.
Ivermectin links. More than you probably want to know about Ivermectin:
General info on use vs. Covid, etc.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/
Huge meta study
https://ivmmeta.com/
Doctors using it and protocols
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/
https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/treatment-protocol/
Emory University has a very prestigious medical school. The Dean of Emory Medical School has Indian heritage, and co-wrote an article in the Times of India advocating using Ivermectin against Covid, among other things. This has gotten =ZERO= coverage in US media, including his hometown paper, the AJC, and his hometown news network, CNN.
Try to convince me that isn’t newsworthy - both his original article and the non-coverage of it by US media.
Link to the article discussed above, and Emory’s leadership page.
Existing affordable drugs could rapidly reduce Covid-19 cases and deaths in India
One of the authors appears below as Dean
https://www.med.emory.edu/about/leadership/index.html
Africa and Ivermectin
https://archive.is/2021.08.28-042601/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431339779703017477.html
The infographic there is excellent. Summary: The parts of Africa where Ivermectin is in widespread use to prevent a terrible parasitic disease, African River Blindness, also have very low Covid incidence.
Interesting Twitter account that has linked many Ivermectin and other med studies on Covid treatments.
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher
Discovery of Ivermectin. A National Historic Chemical Landmark per the American Chemical Society. Not something to be derided as “horse dewormer”.
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/discovery-of-ivermectin-mectizan.pdf.
“The Story of Ivermectin”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZqVlyy6YtNiz/
https://rumble.com/vr0rim-the-ivermectin-story-original-and-uncut.html
Good 24 minute summary.
Ivermectin and Cancer
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/12kFnAdfAW/ivermectin-cures-cancer-/
India’s Ivermectin Blackout - Part V: The Secret Revealed
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout-—part-v-the-secret-revealed/article_9a37d9a8-1fb2-11ec-a94b-47343582647b.html
Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711.pdf
Regular Use of Ivermectin as Prophylaxis for COVID-19 Led Up to a 92% Reduction in COVID-19 Mortality Rate in a Dose-Response Manner: Results of a Prospective Observational Study of a Strictly Controlled Population of 88,012 Subjects
https://www.cureus.com/articles/111851-regular-use-of-ivermectin-as-prophylaxis-for-covid-19-led-up-to-a-92-reduction-in-covid-19-mortality-rate-in-a-dose-response-manner-results-of-a-prospective-observational-study-of-a-strictly-controlled-populatio
Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective by Andy CRUMP and Satoshi ŌMURA
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/
Dr. Omura was one of the Nobel Prize in Medicine winners for discovering Ivermectin. Article is at NIH, and is from the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, a prestigious medical publication.
Nice Dr. Omura meme: https://patriots.win/p/15JmxJouZN/dr-satoshi-omura-/c/
I still don’t understand why no one brings up the “Right to Try” law that was legislated and approved by Congress....why don’t any of them cite this?
They must have some real Dullards in MA. I have not seen a stupid mask in my area of the state in almost 2 years. Who is paying this toads (the Board) to perpetuate this crap. (Bureaucrap).
This rag has an interesting ownership...
It appears early on in the article, as one reads through, and the writer's expectation is that a reader will simply accept the phrase. Don't.
Question --- what is Covid pneumonia? It's pneumonia. Yup. In the aftermath of the Spanish flu event a century ago, it turns out a great many deaths were from SECONDARY causes. The significant one was pneumonia.
One reads: "There are more than 30 different causes of pneumonia, and they're grouped by the cause." The many causes are documented.
Source: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/pneumonia
"Covid pneumonia" is a term now appearing, as if something somehow different than "viral pneumonia." What is the intent of the vocabulary change? Ultimately, it is to increase that "uptake" of the mRNA injections. Marketing, marketing and marketing.
Note the source above states, "Viral pneumonia. This type is caused by various viruses, including the flu (influenza), and is responsible for about one-third of all pneumonia cases. You may be more likely to get bacterial pneumonia if you have viral pneumonia."
So marketing, marketing and marketing, because of all those "caused by various viruses" pneumonias, ONE is touted as having an answer.
"Safe and effective." Effective enough that Fauci and others were protected and caught the bug anyway. Effective.
What;s effective? The marketing, marketing and -- Maine Monitor -- messaging.
“discredited”
For such a screamingly obvious propaganda piece, how did they avoid a gratuitous Orange Man Bad sentence, or something about racism or homophobia?
That's because they don't want a cheap, effective treatment.
Please, help us out. :)
That bears repeating.!
For any non-political disease off-label uses are allowed. Not so for Covid. That’s probably because Trump mentioned it. It had to be discredited and ridiculed only because Trump had said something about it. Had Trump said drink plenty of fluids and get lots of rest THAT would have been ridiculed. Liberals would have competed to appear bleary-eye’d and dehydrated. There would have been the Tictock dehydration challenge.
According to “medical journalist” Emily Bader.
https://themainemonitor.org/author/emilybader/
Yeah, I think I’ll go with the Dean of Emory Medical School over this mid-twenties nothing. But yet this is who many of the masses choose to listen to.
BTW, it’s the full moon, the dogs and I will be having our Ivermectin today. They get it monthly, I go quarterly.
And yes, I have no problems with the horse paste. I’d rather have pills, but it’s not worth the premium in money and brain damage dealing with getting it in that form. Again, it should be an OTC drug. I’ve been taking it for a couple years now. Any side effects?
NAAAAAAAAY!
Any sentient human by now knows that COVID’s creation was an engineered bio-weapon and the government’s directed ‘treatment’ was democide. For officials to continue to authorize and encourage more death shots (see below link) informs even the most dense among us that something is very much off-kilter. I’m sticking to my thesis that galactic aliens (biologics) are blackmailing the governments of this Planet into allowing their ‘experimentation’ on humans to continue. Whether their intended objective is the extinction of Homo sapiens is uncertain, but it sure looks like it, which informs us that the biologics experimentation on humans is malevolent. I see the government’s late admission (past midnight) that biologics now exist is the government’s feeble effort to give us a hint of the pickle we are in.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4171906/posts
We have one of these cases going on in my state, and I have to point out that the doctor didn’t do herself any favors by violating all kinds of protocols and professional standards to “treat” patients this way. Prescribing drugs to total strangers without examining them is a good way to get your license suspended no matter how good your intentions may be.
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