Posted on 07/26/2020 10:21:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Midland County Commissioners’ Court on Monday will hear a presentation from the Odessa doctor who claims to have found a “silver bullet” in the fight against coronavirus.
The opportunity to speak during Commissioners’ Court will give Dr. Richard Bartlett, a family physician in Odessa, a platform to present his findings, according to County Judge Terry Johnson.
Bartlett has touted an inhaled form of budesonide, a steroid often used to treat asthma, as a cure for the virus in several interviews with the news media.
Commissioner Randy Prude said he asked Bartlett to give a presentation during the meeting because he wants information about Bartlett’s treatment to be widely available.
“I frankly believe the sting of the pandemic would be over if we all had access to his protocols,” Prude said.
He said he hopes doctors and other medical professionals will listen in to the court session and consider using Bartlett’s treatment.
Officials with Midland Memorial Hospital have said they will not use the treatment because there is no evidence suggesting it would benefit patients with cases severe enough to require hospitalization. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Larry Wilson has also cautioned the community about accepting anecdotal evidence as proof of effectiveness, saying if it sounds “too good to be true, it probably is.”
Prude said he does not agree with the hospital’s decision to not use budesonide.
When asked if he was concerned that having Bartlett give a presentation might be viewed as going against hospital officials, he said, “I don’t really care when someone’s life is at stake.”
Additionally on Monday, the Commissioners’ Court will discuss raises for elected officials, according to an agenda packet. Some elected officials requested an 8 percent raise during the last court session to match the raise previously given to other county employees.
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New York Post ran this last week... maybe different steroids work better than others...
“Hospitals in hard hit regions step up use of steroids on COVID-19 patients”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/hospitals-step-up-use-of-steroids-on-covid-19-patients/
from link:
Several U.S. hospitals in states with fresh surges of COVID-19 cases have started treating their sickest patients with dexamethasone rather than await confirmation of preliminary results of a study by British researchers, who said the inexpensive steroid saves lives.
l8r
A cure?
I doubt it, but it may help patients who have difficulty breathing due to the virus.
I read about this. Sounds VERY promising, like Hydroxychloroquine, Z Max and Zinc, BUT it will be discredited because Trump suggested that some inhaled treatments might be promising. (NOT BLEACH!)
The ONLY thing that will save our country is a second term win for Donald Trump, a Republican majority in the House and a Republican majority in the Senate.
ALL THREE! or our country is DOOMED! (unless Trump just TAKES OVER)
Trump may have to make a decision on the level of Lincoln’s decision to go to war.
Well, if there’s no effective treatment for the disease, doctors have long just treated the symptoms.
If inflammation is the observable mechanism damaging patient’s lungs, maybe less inflammation is a good thing? Dexamethazone has been shown to work, why not try another cheap, widely available steroid as well?
I’m no kemist and no docter—can’t even spell ‘em.
But, the Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin and zinc regimen, oral steroids, and now this— they influence the autoimmune system.
I wonder if azithromycin has some anti-inflammatory effect, like doxycyline, prescribed in low doses to treat acne. Does anybody know?
If true, then this oblique strategy, constraining the immune system, is more successful than attempts that try to killing the virus head-on. The medical establishment is concerned with the latter over the former.
If this assessment is generally true, it might expose a problem in recent medical practice: treatments prescribed by centralized medical authority composed of narrowly focused “vertical” thinkers and strivers: that over-rides or even sanctions non-conformity. Have doctors lost the autonomy to follow their intuition in clinical practice? In other words, has the ‘art’ been suppressed in medicine?
When did this begin, if true? It seems fairly recent, say whithin the last 10 years.
Actual case: Person in mid-forties became ill with COVID19 on July 6th, tested positive at a local hospital on the 11th. Progressively worse until they went to the ER on the 15th. The hospital only gave a cat-scan and fluids. Finally, on the 16th, they found a doctor that would prescribe the “Trump cocktail” as they described it, plus a steroid delivered by a nebulizer. Within 1 week they are back to normal. They feel that without the “cocktail” and steroid inhalation treatment they would have eventually been put on a ventilator because oxygen level got down to 86%.
Yes, there has been a standardization in medicine. A study done some 50 years ago on ways to treat Tonsillitis showed doctors used methods done by better known doctors in their cities. They weren't checking what 'worked' best but played medical 'follow the local leader'. Sometimes that works - sometimes not so much...
Computers made it possible to easily see what worked and what didn't work... and that became the safer route for patients AND in avoiding malpractice suits (just a guess here...)
Ha ha ha they’re finally seeing it in the open
It is the silver ion
That’s the one
Dr. Bartlett has an excellent track record.
Unfortunately Birx or somebody is not letting this information get to Trump.
Agree 100% as long as there is no side effects anything that helps breathing is a God send.
If I were afflicted with this virus I would seek out pure oxygen to breathe.
If patients have trouble breathing why not give them oxygen to breathe?
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