Posted on 09/05/2021 5:26:14 AM PDT by MNDude
Rolling Stone magazine has been called out for publishing an inaccurate story Saturday about hospitals in Oklahoma being overrun by Ivermectin overdoses.
The Rolling Stone story reported that the number of Ivermectin drug overdoses have so overwhelmed hospitals that gunshot victims have been unable to get medical treatment. Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug that has a human version but is more commonly used for deworming livestock.
In an interview with local Southeastern Oklahoma station KFOR, a rural Oklahoma physician Dr. Jason McElyea spread many of the same falsehoods.
“The ERs are so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated,” he said.“All of their ambulances are stuck at the hospital waiting for a bed to open so they can take the patient in and they don’t have any, that’s it,” said Dr. McElyea. “If there’s no ambulance to take the call, there’s no ambulance to come to the call.”
In response to that interview and the Rolling Stone piece, the Northeastern Health System (NHS) – Sequoyah released a statement claiming Dr. Jason McElyea “is not an employee of NHS Sequoyah”, he also hasn’t worked at that hospital in over two months nor have they treated any patients for Ivermectin overdoses. (
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Like Alec Baldwin, playing a doctor, said in the movie Malice, ‘God complex’? ‘I AM God
Any story that uses the term “horse de-wormer” is on its face is stieruitwerpselen.
Former employee sues MRHC for breach of contract
By Adrian O’Hanlon III | News Editor Apr 17, 2018
A former doctor and foundation board president is suing the McAlester Regional Health Center Authority for breach of contract, according to court documents.
Attorneys for Jason McElyea seek $150,400 in damages after they claim the MRHC Authority did not notify the former physician of its intention to terminate the agreement between the parties effective immediately, according to court documents filed April 10 in Pittsburg County District Court by attorney Russell Uselton.
The context being "reality."
“Not an Employee” means nothing unless he said he was an employee. I have no opinion on the rest of it, but if “not an employee” is intended to mean “he has no connection to this hospital that would put him in a position to know what he’s talking about”, “not an employee” doesn’t do it.
All doctors depend on board Board Certification now in order to get paid by Insurance or to have hospital privileges. Say something “inappropriate” and lose that cert. One can always get certified by Boards that are every bit as professional as the accepted boards but those boards have may not stealth certified by the HMOs that run medicine now. Almost all doctors are effectively employees of Big Med and except for the few top docs who work for the very wealthy and those who have wisely moved off shore, and they have to toe the line to keep their practices.
The local Việt Kiều community 20 to 30 years ago sent many of its sons and daughters to med school and produced many MDs and DOs. 10-15 years ago the med school bound began to more and more divert to the auxiliary med fields, ex ray tech, Respiratory therapy, etc. They saw the way things were going for MDs and went where the net income was just about as good without all the government and paper hassles and liability insurance. The present generation seems to be avoiding the medical field altogether. Some of the doctors I know from that first generation have gone back to school for the auxiliary specialties to get out of the government clamps.
Plus, get this, there’s another lib shiboleth here. We need gun control! If we had gun control, all the rube Trump voters taking horse paste wouldn’t be killing the hospital’s 50 daily gunshot cases! Voila!
Can’t find one single enemediot outlet that ran the story that has issued a correction.
Did any moderators or higher say this story was B$?
Get a load of this, updated a few minutes ago... A non-correction correction...You just can’t make this crap up.
“The issue is never the issue, the issue is always The Revolution.”
They could and should have issued that statement within a few minutes.
Yeah they're the Gateway Pundit of the left.
Maybe they wanted to do their due diligence first and thoroughly fact check the story (on a Saturday, on a holiday weekend) before they made a statement so they don't look like the idiots that Rolling Stone looks like.
Winston Churchill
Hospital administrators are aware of this, too... And make use of it.
You take zinc with meals to reduce the chances of stomach illness
OMG...i TAKE A ZINC TABLET EVERY DAMN DAY!!!NO UPSET STOMACH.
obviously a DEMOCRAT.
Just like that UVA rape story they covered a few years ago.
Good catch!
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