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rea's avatar

One issue here and why this problem will not end for the foreseeable future is that physicians lost the ability to speak and practice freely and turned their authority over to the government and insurance companies. Years ago, doctors had clinical independence to treat their patients. Today's doctors are controlled by HMO's and huge hospital organizations. If their hospital tells them patients need 5 covid shots, they will just do as they are told. The cowardice and ignorance of these so-called MD's is shocking.

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Tsipora Pereira's avatar

The less these doctors learn during their medical training, the more they will come to rely on the ignorance if not downright stupidity of their patients. These (if they want to live) will have to get themselves better informed as time goes on. I for one know ten times more about medicine than three years ago.

That will result in ever more interesting conflicts in consulting rooms. Until these quacks will become just and justly obsolete.

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Avalanche's avatar

My VA doc (a useless but nice lady) pushed me every time she saw me (or, during COVID, spoke to me by phone {eye roll}) would not write a scrip for prophylactic ivermectin. After I HAD covid (I had some IVM pills from two telemed docs, and when the pills ran out, I used my syringes of horse paste ((Tractor Supply! Before they literally locked it down!) ! Got through covid fine. (Well, except for getting shingles 4 mos later...). VA doc also would not order a d-dimer after (LEF.org offers very low prices on blood tests -- drawn through LabCorps -- and they send the results to YOU (and to your doc if you tell them to. I use them often!).

Anyway... one time later when I saw her, she was again pushing the poison-vax, and asked if I'd take it: I leaned in towards her and said, quietly and VERY seriously: "Not for love or money.... nor at the POINT OF A GUN!" She didn't ask again.

Oh, and if you or someone you love GETS shingles.... some advice! I got this hard dull pain in my R breast, and under my R shoulder blade. (This was after 2nd d-dimer.) Could it be a clot?! There is NO connection between brst and shldr blade: no vein, no artery. Called the VA help line; she read a list of questions and told me to go to Urgent Care (I'm 2+ hrs from the VA clinic -- thank you Trump for 'local care'!)

You've read -- or know -- how a rash comes up, and then wee blisters come up in the rash -- and the blisters keep growing till they pop and ooze? And BURN like hellfire and itch like the devil?! Once diagnosed by the nice young doc at the Urgent Care (whom I filled with covid and IVM and vax-injury, Rundeathisnear, etc. etc. knowledge -- we were alone in the clinic on Sunday afternoon... And HE wanted to know! Good young doc!) I returned to taking 'treatment doses' of IVM

I had ordered pills from India (good service from: AllDayChemist.com) and the wee blisters would come up and, a day later, recede back into the skin. NO PAIN, NO ITCH!!! (Well some deep-in ongoing nerve pain in breast and shoulder blade -- which went away in a week or so.) ("Oh!" thinks I, "well, IVM is BORN to be an anti-viral, so of course!")

Everyone NEEDS to have IVM on hand -- ALWAYS! (IF viruses exist -- and I've reached about 85% dubious -- then IVM (and hydroxy if you can get it) is first-line treatment!) Dr. Lee Merritt is teaching about parasites now too - FASCINATING stuff!

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Tsipora Pereira's avatar

Thank you for your experience. We are dealing with clerks. Knowing more than they do is the only remedy.

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dhgjdg's avatar

Yes, it is cowardice, and also, a long term plan to do just what is happening. Stay safe. Stay saved.

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A Midwestern Doctor's avatar

That's a big part of why I stopped working for those organizations.

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LoveOneAnother's avatar

Hospital-acquired infections, also known as healthcare-associated infections, are infections that are acquired in a healthcare facility, such as a hospital, ambulatory surgical centers, end-stage renal disease facilities, or long-term care facilities.1 These infections are caused by viral, bacterial, and fungal pathogens and can get into the bloodstream, lungs, skin, urinary tract, or digestive tract. The most common types of hospital-acquired infections are bloodstream infection (BSI), pneumonia (eg, ventilator-associated pneumonia [VAP], hospital-acquired pneumonia], and surgical site infection (SSI). Infections that become clinically evident after 48 hours of hospitalization are considered hospital-acquired, and infections that occur after the patient is discharged from the hospital can also be considered healthcare-associated if the organisms were acquired during the hospital stay.2 These infections are hard to treat and can stay with the patient for a long time, and in the worst cases, they can be deadly.

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