Houston doctor who prescribed ivermectin to Fort Worth COVID patient faces discipline

Ft Worth Star Telegram ^ | July 28 2023 | Ciara McCarthy

[texas booster]

The case of a Fort Worth patient’s quest to treat his COVID-19 with ivermectin, and a Houston doctor’s determination to prescribe him the drug, is headed to a rare hearing where a state agency will argue that the doctor broke the law. The Texas Medical Board filed a formal complaint against Dr. Mary Talley Bowden in April, accusing her of unprofessional conduct when she allegedly prescribed ivermectin to a man at Texas Health Huguley Hospital where she did not have privileges.

She also did not properly review the patient’s medical history or the patient himself, according to the complaint. The dispute has garnered widespread attention because it involves ivermectin — a drug that prominent people, including former President Donald Trump, have incorrectly claimed as a COVID cure. The case also raises the questions of whether patients have the right to request drugs with no proven benefit, and whether doctors can responsibly prescribe such drugs.

The Texas Medical Board, which is responsible for licensing the 70,000 doctors in Texas, is focusing solely on whether Bowden had the authority to practice medicine at Texas Health Huguley, and whether she knew enough about the patient to prescribe him anything. “She did not conduct an exam, nor could she have done so, as she did not have privileges at the hospital where the patient was admitted,” the board’s complaint reads.

It’s rare for Medical Board cases to proceed to this stage. Most disciplinary cases — approximately 90% of them — are settled in informal, closed-door meetings, according to data from the board.

Bowden and her attorneys declined the opportunity to settle the case through informal mediation, and it is instead scheduled for a four-day administrative hearing in 2024.

[texas booster]

Bowden’s attorneys did not respond to emails asking for comment. In legal filings, Bowden has denied all allegations in the medical board’s complaint, and said the board failed to follow procedural rules in bringing the case.

[Responsibility2nd]

I wonder if this is about ivermectin or more to the point that this doctor had no hospital privileges and really treated a man who was not her patient.

[Responsibility2nd]

As usual the Enemedia cannot resist telling a lie…..

“…..former President Donald Trump, have incorrectly claimed as a COVID cure.”

[texas booster]

Texas Ping, the Best State in the USA!

A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.

This thread is a follow on to the post below, posted by SeekandFind.

American Medical schools have become infected by radical leftism

Keep in mind that the federal government has declared (through the IRS and other agencies) that ALL restrictions during Covid were enacted by STATE governments, and in this case state medical bodies.

The corruption seen here is technically narrowly focused - did the doctor have rights in this hospital, to direct the patents' treatment, at the time of admission?

This is a major attack on Dr. Mary Talley Bowden by the Texas medical establishment, and it flies in the face of good medicine.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Ivermectin won its inventors the Nobel Prize in Medicine. It has saved millions of Africans
from river blindness, and Ivermectin is used to successfully treat parasites of every kind in all
mammals. If it were toxic it would have killed me personally a long time ago.

[TigersEye]

"... including former President Donald Trump, have incorrectly claimed as a COVID cure."

This is mis/disinformation. Pres. Trump never claimed that Ivermectin cured Covid.

The case also raises the questions of whether patients have the right to request drugs with no proven benefit, and whether doctors can responsibly prescribe such drugs.

That is also mis/disinformation. Ivermectin has been called a wonder drug for its benefits to humanity and compared to aspirin and penicillin in terms of the suffering it has alleviated.

Also it is common medical practice for doctors to try medications with proven safety records for diseases that have no known treatment protocols.

The author, Ciara McCarthy, should be deplatformed from all media for spreading so much mis/disinformation. She should also have all of her bank accounts cancelled.

[texas booster]

that this doctor had no hospital privileges

The complaint is exactly about this, but the "news" article included this tidbit towards the end:

How ivermectin became falsely touted as a treatment for COVID-19

Ivermectin plays a central role in the case because of the ongoing battle between those who insist it is an effective treatment for COVID-19 and the researchers who have proven that it’s not.

Ivermectin has been used for decades, primarily to treat tropical diseases in humans and in veterinary work, said Derek Lowe, a medicinal chemist who has worked on drug development for decades. The drug is best known for treating river blindness in humans, an infection that is spread when flies infected with parasites bite humans.

Whenever a new pathogen, like the coronavirus, emerges, drug researchers around the world begin screening drug compounds to see if any drug that has already been manufactured and approved could be used to treat the new disease, Lowe said.

Some initial reports showed that ivermectin could stop cell cultures in a petri dish from getting infected with the coronavirus, Lowe said. But unfortunately, the good news stopped there.

Keeping in mind the the Star Telegram is run by leftists, for leftists and only promotes the party line, it is still shocking that this opinion piece is inserted at the end as fact.

[texas booster]

Sorry, TigersEye, such punishment is only for those that speak out against the ruling elite.

[kiryandil]

I wonder if this is about ivermectin or more to the point that this doctor had no hospital privileges and really treated a man who was not her patient.

In Quaxx We Trust

The quacks can jam it.

[TigersEye]

She should be put in a public stock and have rotten vegetables thrown at her then. :)

[entropy12]

I bet his patient has been de-wormed thoroghly.
Ivermectin is used to de-worme horses.

[texas booster]

“The problem is that the ivermectin results were at unrealistically high concentrations,” Lowe said. “There are a lot of other things that will ‘work’ if you just take a gargantuan amount. But they’ll do a lot of other s–t too.”

The doses of ivermectin that were being used in cell cultures were much larger than the doses that were safely used to treat humans with river blindness, Lowe said. The concentrations were so high, he added, that it would probably have been impossible to reach the same concentrations in a human body as was being done in the petri dish.

At that point, most doctors moved on from ivermectin, recognizing that it wasn’t going to be effective at treating COVID-19. Additional clinical trials, including multiple trials done in humans, found the drug was ineffective, Lowe said. And the trials that did show promising results were not rigorous enough or big enough to prove a cause and effect, he added.

The above quotes are from the same article, and continue the establishment dogma that only FDA approved vaccines could save one from the ravages of Covid-19.

[gas_dr]

Hit it on the head. If you don’t have privileges at a hospital and prescribe it’s a problem. Big one.

[TigersEye]

Her patient received one to the most highly revered medications produced in the late 20th century ... according to the NIH anyway.

Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective Feb. 10, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Discovered in the late-1970s, the pioneering drug ivermectin, a dihydro derivative of avermectin—originating solely from a single microorganism isolated at the Kitasato Intitute, Tokyo, Japan from Japanese soil—has had an immeasurably beneficial impact in improving the lives and welfare of billions of people throughout the world.

(snip)

There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘Wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of Mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide—especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people.

[TigersEye]

Completely curing a disease is not the only way to treat a disease.

Those cell culture tests were only looking at a complete cure.

[BrexitBen]

Individuals cannot freely ingest a cheap, plentiful, and extremely effective drug.

Big Brother mandates that you take the expensive, experimental, dangerous vaccine.

Your master has spoken !

[BrexitBen]

The tablet form of Ivermectin has been taken by millions of people for years. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize for their discovery.

Make sure you get ALL the facts before you make such an absurd statement.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Isn’t Ivermectin an Ionophore? It weakens cell walls so vitamins and minerals taken for treatment of COVID can penetrate the cells and do their job. Ivermectin alone is questionable, but combined with Vitamins, A, C, D, and Zinc, it can be helpful.

[threefinger]

It's a deliberately deceptive headline. They went out of their way to make it sound like her prescribing Ivermectin was the problem, when the problem actually was writing prescriptions in a facility where she didn't have privileges.

If you have to LIE to make your point, you don't have a point worth making.

[Bikkuri]

The pro-vaxxers are out in force...