The Medical Profession Implodes

By Steve Karp, M.D.

In “normal” times, the practice of medicine has many challenges, some from within and some from outside the profession. If you let it, much of your daily practice follows specialty guidelines, insurance company criteria, hospital formularies, and other annoyances. None of those entities have any liability when it comes to our patients. For the most part, liability lies with the treating physician.

Each specialty plays a particular role in a patient’s care and specialists often view issues from different angles while wearing their tunnel-vision glasses. For instance, some physicians view elevated cholesterol as an indicator to assess other potential underlying medical issues, while a cardiologist will just write a prescription for a statin drug, just as a cat reflexively chases a mouse.

What changed overnight and across the board, was an anti-science attitude across all specialties to everything related to COVID. A viral infection is not something requiring government management, rather, its encounter is part of a physician’s daily medical practice. The government has seemingly accomplished what medical insurers, medical boards, and hospitals tried, but had not yet succeeded at: complete mind control of physicians. And with that, the last vestige of respect I had for my profession died.

I’m often in attendance at medical meetings where the fine points of immunotherapy and monoclonal antibodies are discussed as part of the treatment for cancer patients. For physicians, it is their version of science in regard to a drug’s indications, mechanisms of action, dosing, management of side effects, and the studies justifying one drug or combination over another, the latter often supported by questionable statistical analysis.

After the science-lite discussion ends, the personal chitchat begins regarding COVID and vaccines, and the point is reached where any remaining rationality becomes akin to that heard among nursery school attendees.

The tone becomes one of acceptance of the government line, all medical knowledge and cognitive abilities having vaporized. There is no talk about the fine points of the various PCR tests, the science of personal isolation or masking, the appropriate use of indoor ventilation systems and their management, the changing of standard and long-extant medical definitions, the introduction of gene therapy used as vaccines.

Expecting any discussion regarding electron microscopy’s effect on clinical medicine, techniques of viral isolation and culturing, or the number of Nobel Prize winning ideas now scientifically abused is not within anyone’s ken. Instead, the conversation becomes who got their booster, when they are next due, how they interact, or not, with those around them so as to stay safe, how they worry about their child being exposed, and much other utterly time and life-sucking conversational trivia.

Apparently, most physicians have not bothered to review yearly influenza data, the time frame for vaccine development, refresh their memory on definitions such as vaccine, vaccination, and immunization, or their cell biology regarding DNA, RNA, mRNA and reverse transcriptase. Nor had they read up on symptoms commonly associated with influenza-like illness, vaccination effectiveness for influenza, or potential issues while ‘vaccinating” during active mutation of infectious diseases.

These concepts should be easily grasped by those managing cancer patients. But when it comes to COVID and vaccination, they are inverted, viewed backwards or inside out, bearing no resemblance to any known medical principles or care. All things COVID have become the medical exception, and have remained so for nearly two years.

Regarding the lapse of critical thinking skills, here are some examples that should have given physicians pause in digesting the propaganda diet they were fed. If I can easily spread COVID to someone by breathing on them, why is there the need to swab the deep recesses of the nose? Why is the PCR test’s methodology omitted from reports sent to physicians? When were masks ever recommended except for those with a known contagious disease such as active tuberculosis, or those with transient low white blood cell counts? When has gene therapy ever been used other than in incurable diseases?

Viral illness prevention is another topic that instigates a deer-in-the-headlights look. Vitamin D is essential for many body functions including the immune system, while obesity sets one up for many medical problems, and old age signals that your remaining days are limited. Nearly all those supposedly severely ill or dead from COVID were afflicted with most if not all of these factors. Though you cannot change your age, you can change your vitamin D intake, lose weight, stop smoking etc. Going off-script regarding prevention other than vaccination or monoclonal antibodies for treatment is considered unscientific.

From the time that our government issued a pandemic alert to the rollout of the vaccines, where was the inquisitiveness of physicians? If I, certainly not first in my medical school class, could figure out that these directly applied to the issues at hand, certainly those ahead of me in my class should have.

Wisdom is a combination of knowledge, experience, and judgement. Knowledge can be imparted, experience gained, but judgement is an inherent quality, not acquired through instruction. You either possess good judgement or you don’t. For some reason, many physicians are not well equipped when it comes to that leg of the stool.

Or is the seeming lack of judgement purposeful? Certainly the increasing number of physicians who are employed by others, most notably hospitals, plays a role. Remember: “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” Do you think physicians are immune to that adage? Physicians are just like everyone else, except they spent their relative youth in an expensive trade school.

It is not an uncommon occurrence for patients, family, and friends to tell me that no matter what the issue they present with to a physician, the first question asked is “Have you had the COVID vaccine?” or “Have you had your booster?” Any answer in the negative is often followed by a harangue about its necessity.

The dilemma for physician’s seeming lack of judgement does not lie in the future since the future is now, represented by VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System). Significant adverse events and deaths due to the vaccine are getting harder to hide, or hide from.

Although stated in regard to the Vietnam War, this entire situation reminds me of a quote by John Kerry that I will modify for the circumstances we find ourselves in today; "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die from the COVID vaccine? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

All things COVID will eventually pass. Few things last forever. But at some point physicians may pay a price for their poor judgement in suspending critical thinking. The question is, who will judge them?

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^ Great article!

The Wu Flu finally got me.

Woke up from a short nap yesterday about 17:00 or so. Started coughing. Chest felt tight.

Uh oh...

Wasn't any better this morning (in fact I'd woken up coughing overnight) and I had an 11:40 appointment for a tooth extraction. So off to the urgent care clinic I went for a rapid test. Had them do a swab for a PCR, too.

Got a call back from the clinic: Positive.

*blegh*

So far a bit of tightness in my lungs, maybe a slight headache, occasional dry cough, and feeling kind of yucky are it. Temperature and blood oxy are normal.

Now upping vitamins C and D another 1,000mg each, swapping-out CoQ10 once-a-day for Quercetin twice-a-day, and adding zinc.

I was just getting back to a good workout schedule, too. Grrr...

^^^ I bet you'll get a quick handle on it.
Keep us posted on how you are doing and whether you use anything else in addition. Best wishes.

It's most likely going to get all of us eventually.

Godspeed.

I had the crud about a month ago- for me, the worst of it was within the first week. Low grade fever, but a dry, unproductive cough, dry mouth and the hardest to take over thanksgiving, complete loss of sense of smell and most of my sense of taste.

Drink LOTS of water, more than you need, take double of whatever vitamins you take, especially E, C, B complex, and zinc. Stay rested but get up move around occasionally to loosen up. Expect a lingering productive cough like with any bad cold. You’ll be right as rain in no time.

A friend of mine is a clinical data scientist manager in the pharmaceutical industry with a team of reports, the one girl on his team had already postponed her wedding in 2020 due to Covid. They held a rescheduled wedding a few weeks ago and 3/4 of the attendees got the Chicom Flu including her, the new husband (they canceled their honeymoon), her father and her brother.

Just found out this morning that her father died. It's my understanding that none of them in her family were vaccinated, who knows if that could have saved him. Goddam fucking Chinese need to pay for this shit!

Quercetin with Bromelain helps but I would also add Niacin. Also use the Zinc lozenges as too much Zinc too fast will cause nausea.

That said, nothing clears up the lungs as good as Ivermectin in my experience.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:..
I was just getting back to a good workout schedule, too. Grrr...

Keep doing as much physical activity as possible (not heavy exertion), and not sleeping/bedrest and lots of water and keep air moving while you sleep. And sleep on your side or stomach, not on your back.

(Instructions given by the nurse when I went to the hospital last year. She was a longtime respiratory specialist clinic nurse)

How much do we really rely on these tests?

You forgot the most important vitamin for cancer and other sickness.....D3.

Also Sambucol at Walmart.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
How much do we really rely on these tests?

The rapid tests are known to be unreliable, though apparently with a higher false negative rate than false positive. The PCR test is allegedly quite accurate.

In my case the tests were more to confirm what I already suspected, due to symptoms.

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Originally posted by 41:
You forgot the most important vitamin for cancer and other sickness.....D3.

I specifically mentioned I was upping my vitamin D intake.

Pfizer delivers good news (NOT!).

https://www.medscape.com/viewa..._trdalrt_pos1_211213

Yes, that FOURTH booster with their vaccine should get bad old Omicron.

At some point (way past that for the sane among us) even the sheep have to realize that they're being played.

Good luck to all of us now that .gov and .med rule our lives.

RMD

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Originally posted by rduckwor:
Pfizer delivers good news (NOT!).

https://www.medscape.com/viewa..._trdalrt_pos1_211213

Yes, that FOURTH booster with their vaccine should get bad old Omicron.

At some point (way past that for the sane among us) even the sheep have to realize that they're being played.

Good luck to all of us now that .gov and .med rule our lives.

RMD

Her Pfizer- I’m calling bullshit on that one. Even their top salesman Fauci says the nearly harmless omicrud may evade protection from the vaccine.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Even their top salesman Fauci says the nearly harmless omicrud may evade protection from the vaccine.

Unless you get (another) booster, naturally.

Praise God in the highest as good news for this family in their fight to have ivermectin used to treat their loved one in the hospital. God Bless !!!

https://www.dailywire.com/news...g-patient-ivermectin


Chris Davies and his father Donald have been fighting for their mother and wife Kathy Davies’ right to try the drug Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment at Fauquier Health hospital in Warrenton, Virginia, for the past few weeks. But the hospital — where Chris happens to work as a radiologic technologist — had put his mother through a series of legal hoops seemingly designed to block the treatment from being given to her.

On Monday, December 13, Virginia’s 20th Judicial Court found Fauquier Health in contempt of court after refusing to comply with previous orders and ruled that by 9:00 p.m. Eastern time tonight, Kathy Davies must be given the dose of Ivermectin as prescribed by a doctor retained by the Davies family. Additionally — if the hospital did not comply — the state had the right to fine the hospital $10,000 per day. That order would have been applied retroactively from December 9 onwards. The court also ordered that the Davies family be given police escort if necessary to administer the drug to their mother.

But, the court also said that the hospital had an opportunity to purge the contempt charge by complying with the order. The hospital is reportedly now opting to comply with that order after a week of arguing why they could not allow the drug to be given to Kathy Davies as the family requested.

The story offers hope for legal respite for many families who have found themselves in similar situations while trying to battle a medical establishment arguably opposed to any treatment not supported by the FDA to fight COVID-19.

The Davies’ saga started in October when Chris Davies’ mother was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. She was placed on a ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) on November 3. Donald was to serve as her medical proxy — and after consultation with Chris and his siblings — wanted doctors to give Kathy Ivermectin in hopes of finding success against COVID-19.

The doctors and hospital refused that request and were adamant they would not administer the drug despite the family’s wishes. On December 3, the Davies family notified Fauquier Health that they were hiring attorneys on Kathy’s behalf and filing a lawsuit.

“Pray we get a compassionate judge and that litigation goes smoothly,” Chris emailed friends supporting his mother on December 5. “We just want the right to try Ivermectin!”

“Let us pray we can get it to her and it will help her out of this long-suffering!!” he added. “Thanks all and God Bless!!!”

On Monday, December 6, according to a court document obtained by The Daily Wire, the court had ruled that Kathy had the right under Virginia law to try Ivermectin or any other order and prescription provided by Dr. Martha Maturi — the doctor retained by the Davies family who had prescribed Ivermectin — regardless of her employment with the hospital.

But, when Chris and a registered nurse went to administer the drug on the night of December 7 on the orders of Maturi, “hospital administration barred [him and the nurse] from entering the ICU with the Ivermectin.”

According to Chris, the hospital’s “COO Kevin Sales and CNO Christine Hart Kress stopped [them] with [the] original court order.”

While Chris had the Ivermectin in hand, he says that Kress “threatened to report the nurse to the medical board to revoke her license” because “she was not an employee of the hospital.”

The hospital told Chris they had filed for another emergency hearing to be held on December 8.

On December 9, Judge James P. Fisher of the 20th Judicial Court of Virginia ruled — according to another document obtained by The Daily Wire — that Maturi had the right to give Chris’s mom Ivermectin under Virginia law, stating that “this court finds it unnecessary to descend into an analysis of the merits of Ivermectin as a treatment protocol” and that the hospital must make a “reasonable effort” to transfer care to Maturi.

The order continued, noting that the hospital’s arguments against admitting Maturi into the hospital were not sufficient.

Davies attorney Ralph Lorigo argued that “all reasonable effort” regarding Ivermectin meant three things: 1. Prescription of medicine, 2. Administration of medicine, and 3. Taking any calls relating to Ivermectin and the patient.

Hospital attorneys reportedly agreed to grant Maturi admitting privileges under those conditions.

But on Friday, Maturi spent hours answering questions about malpractice insurance, references, and other forms that the hospital said were necessary before allowing to see the patient. The hospital waited until 3:30 pm on Friday, December 10, to let Davies’ attorneys know that they were not going to admit Maturi into the hospital despite the court order.

Davies attorneys discussed the matter with the hospital attorneys on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as to why Maturi could not receive privileges. The hospital said that if Maturi were to administer Ivermectin, she would have to take complete control over the patient. They essentially said that no doctor or nurse employed by the hospital would assist in taking care of the patient.

This made no sense to Davies’ attorneys or family for a variety of reasons, chief among them that one doctor is never in charge of the patient, but rather a team of doctors, specialists, and nurses care for the patient.

This was yet another three days that Chris’s mother would not receive the drug. Since the hospital had denied the Davies family the right to give Ivermectin to Kathy on Friday afternoon, an emergency hearing would have to wait until Monday morning.

In response, Davies’s attorneys argued in court on Monday that the hospital had been unreasonable in their efforts to care for the patient, Kathy Davies, and should be held in contempt of court.

Judge Fisher agreed and ruled on Monday that the hospital could appeal the order, comply, or face the 10k per day fines.

Lorigo said that after several hours of trying to ask for “clarification” on the matter, Fauquier Health finally complied with the ruling. Hospital administrators even let Chris and his father know that they found a registered nurse who could assist Dr. Maturi deliver the Ivermectin.

As of press time, Chris and Maturi were traveling to Fauquier Health with Ivermectin in hand to finally deliver it to his mother in hopes of helping her defeat COVID-19.

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I’m sorry, but if someone prevented me from seeing my mom, someone would get an ass beating and would maybe wind up in the ICU they worked in.

Why is it so hard to understand that all they want is the attempt to try and save their family member? Just get out of they way and let them try…note in the chart AMA, and move on…

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
I’m sorry, but if someone prevented me from seeing my mom, someone would get an ass beating and would maybe wind up in the ICU they worked in.

Why is it so hard to understand that all they want is the attempt to try and save their family member? Just get out of they way and let them try…note in the chart AMA, and move on…

Ironic that many of the same (type) of people in the medical field, are so adamant and supportive of the right to die movement. Yet do such things as this facility has, to prevent people from trying what they desire, in the treatment of one's illness.

Insanity.

Joe Biden on Monday said he will be visiting tornado-ravaged Kentucky on Wednesday.

Over 100 are feared dead in Kentucky after at least 18 tornadoes tore through the heartland late Friday night and early Saturday morning.

Link with video of Joe, talking about people in Kentucky in need of booster shots.

Biden to Travel to Tornado-Ravaged Kentucky on Wednesday… Will Have His Team Set Up Covid Booster Shot Sites





Because those looking for their loved ones are obviously wondering where to get a booster shot since their town was destroyed and they have lost everything.

Keeping priorities in order for us all, Let’s go Brandon.