wow - that is a little extreme but direct them to this wackjob - only $185 for visit and $350 for the medicine.
Remdesivir anyone?
I just found it ironic that we can't prescribe a cheap medication that probably has no benefit and is relatively safe, but we CAN prescribe an extremely expensive experimental medication that also probably has no benefit.
"There's a sucker born every minute." - P.T. Barnum
Just open a Med Spa or do "stem cell injections".
Your dad have common sense that a lot of people lack, obviously.
Very, very true.It takes cajones to prescribe something the FDA specifically says not to. Indefensible if a negative outcome occurs.
Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19
Using the Drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 can be dangerous and even lethal. The FDA has not approved the drug for that purpose.www.fda.gov
Yes, I know there are off-label uses for every medication, but the FDA usually doesn't make a separate page to say that an off-label use isn't supported by research.
www.seattletimes.com
On the other hand, if you’re near dead, with no hope and have already tried everything, I guess some experimentation ?might? make sense?Unfortunately, some patients are finding quacks to prescribe them ivermectin and getting courts to force hospital to administer them
Judge orders Ohio hospital to treat Covid patient with ivermectin (might be paywalled)
A hospital refused to give ivermectin to a COVID patient. Then a judge ordered doctors to administer it
A hospital in Ohio is being forced to administer ivermectin, a deworming drug, to a 51-year-old COVID patient who had gotten so sick that he was forced into a medically induced coma this month.
Agree. When you’re basically dead, why not try something. Ivermectin though, meh.
Like any other poison, if you put a high enough concentration of it in a test tube with live stuff, it'll kill it. They you can tell someone gullible to "extrapolate that to all 8 billion people" and "calculate the lives could've been saved" if the conspirators hadn't suppressed this drug. Make a catchy meme about it and boom, that "truth" is viral and seen by millions.
I've been mystified by that too. Same with hydroxycholorquine. Not sure how someone picked these medications randomly to test out on COVID. Seems to me I'd try standard antivirals first.....
I think my hospital and every respectable medical organization would support a physician who refuses to administer court-ordered ivermectin. I don't tell a judge how to do his job, so perhaps he shouldn't tell us how to do ours. What's next? Court order for Dilaudid for fibro patients? I simply will refuse. I'm not an agent of the court and as such cannot be ordered to do something that will cause harm to an individual.Unfortunately, some patients are finding quacks to prescribe them ivermectin and getting courts to force hospital to administer them
Judge orders Ohio hospital to treat Covid patient with ivermectin (might be paywalled)
A hospital refused to give ivermectin to a COVID patient. Then a judge ordered doctors to administer it
A hospital in Ohio is being forced to administer ivermectin, a deworming drug, to a 51-year-old COVID patient who had gotten so sick that he was forced into a medically induced coma this month.
The doc I had was referencing that retracted study last week. I asked if he knew the article had been retracted. I could tell he hadn’t. Again. I am all for using meds off label if there is some sort of evidence to support, especially in a last ditch effort. But I just don’t see it here at all.
I mean... Clarithromycin and Naproxen have anti-influenza A properties... and at least there's an in-vivo study out there (N=200, which seems small, but look at the size of most of the studies medicine is practiced off of... the N=1000+ are a relatively new concept) showing benefit.
That one is a little deceptive. I thought it was the other way around. I do recall being in the PICU as a resident, and there was some kid with PDA or something, and the Peds Cards fellow (in a thick Indian accent) making a quite funny joke about Cialis (using the name brand).
I'm too lazy to look up which use came first... but the reverse works as well...
err what? ACEi causes a rise in Cr that isn't terribly clinically relevant except in ~1% of patients while adding years of dialysis free time to basically every type of nephropathy.
Da Fuq?
Don't you have to know how to spell ICU before you're allowed to work there?
Wait, Bird....skydiving parachuteless???????
You just glide like an unladen swallow of course.
In the vast majority of cases, I agree, it isn't terribly clinically relevant. Yet people will hold for worsening renal function or not start because of an elevated creatinine.
I agree with the essence of what you are saying that there is a lot of hypocrisy in medicine, but I'm not sure these are the best areas or ways to highlight this point.
If I had a dollar for every time BIrdstrike quotes this line...
African or European?
You would then have exactly $1 dollar.
