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stillcool

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9. wow...I thought it was the same case...

Wed Sep 1, 2021, 05:22 PM

Sep 2021

that's wild.

A hospital refused to give ivermectin to a covid patient. Then a judge ordered doctors to administer it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/31/ohio-ivermectin-lawsuit-hospital-covid/
An Ohio woman has won a court order for a hospital to treat her husband, who is on a ventilator with covid-19, with the antiparasitic medicine ivermectin. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)
By Hannah Knowles and Timothy Bella

When her husband got so sick from the coronavirus that he was forced into a medically induced coma this month, Julie Smith turned to ivermectin — a deworming drug that some people are using to treat or prevent covid-19.

“My husband is on death’s doorstep,” she wrote, according to an affidavit. “He has no other options.”

Yet when Julie Smith got a prescription from an Ohio doctor, a hospital in West Chester Township, Ohio, allegedly refused to administer the drug to Jeffrey Smith while he was seriously ill and on a ventilator, according to a lawsuit she filed on behalf of her husband this month.

Now, the hospital is being forced to administer the unproven treatment to Jeffrey Smith, 51, after a judge ruled in Julie Smith’s favor.

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Judge sides with Illinois hospital refusing to treat man with ivermectin [View all] Jim G. Sep 2021 OP

Common sense prevails! SheltieLover Sep 2021 #1

discharge the patient. there are other places to get treatment nt msongs Sep 2021 #2

Right? Maybe the doctor can treat him at home. gldstwmn Sep 2021 #4

Does he have a vent at home? LisaL Sep 2021 #6

Why would he need one if he has dewormer? intheflow Sep 2021 #20

Dewormer is not going to keep his heart beating. LisaL Sep 2021 #22

Sorry, smiley faux pas. intheflow Sep 2021 #23

Hmm. Patient is on the ventilator. LisaL Sep 2021 #5

he doesnt want the treatment offered. his body his choice nt msongs Sep 2021 #11

Unless he wants an abortion in Texas in which case gldstwmn Sep 2021 #13

Well, he is attached to the vent so we don't know what he wants. LisaL Sep 2021 #14

It's for that republican traitor ailment, fascistitis, so she can intimidate and "own" the staff louslobbs Sep 2021 #21

That's the point. gldstwmn Sep 2021 #12

Someone needs to take a good, long look at doctors gldstwmn Sep 2021 #3

And then revoke their freaking licenses? (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Sep 2021 #7

That should be the least of it. gldstwmn Sep 2021 #8

wow...I thought it was the same case... stillcool Sep 2021 #9

It's sad that people are so desperate for their loved ones to live that they would try anything. gldstwmn Sep 2021 #15

The guy in Illinois? LisaL Sep 2021 #16

the attorney for the Mrs. declined stillcool Sep 2021 #17

That's the guy in OH. LisaL Sep 2021 #18

did I respond to the wrong post? stillcool Sep 2021 #19

If they want to prescribe their own course of treatment why go to a hospital at all? gldstwmn Sep 2021 #25

I think it's the right-wing doctors stillcool Sep 2021 #26

And you know that woman's lawyer gldstwmn Sep 2021 #29

Since when do patients get to order their doctors frazzled Sep 2021 #24

I've heard of doctors stillcool Sep 2021 #27

Seems like if they want ivermectin, it should be only ivermectin. Wouldn't that work well brewens Sep 2021 #10

There's money to be made running a quack hospital. Turbineguy Sep 2021 #28

Better yet, it could support Soylent Green production... Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #30

Non-standard care with off-use medications should be a liability issue bucolic_frolic Sep 2021 #31

Send him home to take Invermectin and sit in an Orgone box AdamGG Sep 2021 #32

I want some of whatever that judge in Ohio is taking. BobTheSubgenius Sep 2021 #33