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Nevilledog

(50,659 posts)
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 08:24 PM Oct 2021

Hospital Says Ivermectin-Obsessed Pols 'Harassed and Threatened' Docs



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“Last week, several of our providers and care team members who are working tirelessly at the bedside were harassed and threatened by three public officials,” Andrea Groom, spokesperson for the Helena-based St. Peter’s Health, told The Daily Beast.

Hospital Says Ivermectin-Obsessed Pols ‘Harassed and Threatened’ Docs
A trooper was sent to the hospital and the state attorney general demanded a conference call with hospital execs after an elderly patient’s family complained.
thedailybeast.com
5:18 PM · Oct 19, 2021


https://www.thedailybeast.com/montana-hospital-harassed-and-threatened-by-ivermectin-obsessed-officials-including-ag-austin-knudsen

At least three high-ranking public officials in Montana tried to pressure a hospital to allow a woman hospitalized with COVID-19 to access drugs that have not been authorized for treatment of the virus—and even “threatened” doctors and dispatched a state trooper, according to the hospital.

“Last week, several of our providers and care team members who are working tirelessly at the bedside were harassed and threatened by three public officials,” Andrea Groom, spokesperson for the Helena-based St. Peter’s Health, told The Daily Beast in a statement Tuesday. “These officials have no medical training or experience, yet they were insisting our providers give treatments for COVID-19 that are not authorized, clinically approved, or within the guidelines established by the FDA and the CDC.”

According to the Independent Record, a patient in her 80s had requested ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug touted in right-wing circles as a miracle serum for COVID-19.

Groom said Tuesday that the officials “threatened to use their position of power to force our doctors and nurses to provide this care.” The conversations had been “deeply troubling” to hospital staff and doctors “because they were threatened and their clinical judgment was called into question by these individuals,” she said.

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Enter stage left

(3,389 posts)
2. Put them in scrubs & tell them they are now responsible for...
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 08:34 PM
Oct 2021

all the unvaccinated covid patients in the hospital.

These stupid MF'ers need to see what is involved with life or death decisions, and put it upon their shoulders to make those decisions.

Initech

(99,909 posts)
8. I think social media is amplifying the crazy.
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 09:20 PM
Oct 2021

People are living in bubbles and becoming radicalized through meme propaganda and it's scrambling their brains.

Initech

(99,909 posts)
5. In all honesty? Fuck 'em.
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 09:18 PM
Oct 2021

If they want to eat the horse paste, they can go to the feed store. If they want actual medical care - back of the line, asshole.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
9. So let's get sleazy
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 09:28 PM
Oct 2021

and just put some packing tape on a IV bag and write Ivermetic on it. In the actual records make up some medical term for cray family.

Yeah, I’m awful but most family don’t do their own chemistry lab work.

niyad

(112,426 posts)
10. Tell these authoritarian, ignorant, rwnj's that they can come in and administer
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 09:30 PM
Oct 2021

anything they want. . Provided that they sign, and have witnessed and notarized, legally binding documents stating that they accept full personal responsibility for the care of those patients, including all medical and burial expenses.

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
11. OK! Specify how much to administer. The liability is on you.
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 10:44 PM
Oct 2021

OK!

Specify how much to administer.

The liability is on you.

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