1/🧵 Dozens of #Ivermectin lawsuits now filed trying to FORCE doctors to give a worm & parasite drug to people infected with a VIRUS!
If you saw a movie with this tag-line, you’d say, “That is so stupid.” And yet…read on…
bit.ly/2Z6QJ1o
If you saw a movie with this tag-line, you’d say, “That is so stupid.” And yet…read on…
bit.ly/2Z6QJ1o
2/ There has been a mix of results in state courts. Some judges have refused to order hospitals to give ivermectin. Others HAVE ordered medical providers to give the medication, despite concerns it could be harmful.
3/ NY State Supreme Court Judge Porzio wrote: “This court will not require a doctor to be placed in a potentially unethical position committing medical malpractice by administering a medication for an unapproved, alleged off-label purpose.”
4/ James Beck, an attorney in Philadelphia who specializes in drug and medical device product liability and has written about the influx of cases. “I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
5/ “The way medicine works is, they are the experts, the doctors and...the hospitals," said @ArthurCaplan, professor of bioethics @NYUgrossman. “When you go there, you’re not going to a restaurant. You don't order your own treatments."
6/ Ivermectin, as @MelanieGriffith famously said in Working Girl, “I’m not a steak, you cant just order me!”
I love that movie ✅
But…NY Lawyer Ralph Lorigo feels differently. He’s filed lawsuits for an 80 yo on ventilator & 65 yo in hospital who wanted it. Both times he won!
I love that movie ✅
But…NY Lawyer Ralph Lorigo feels differently. He’s filed lawsuits for an 80 yo on ventilator & 65 yo in hospital who wanted it. Both times he won!
7/ Lorigo says. “Doctors are not gods because they wear white jackets, I take issue with their stance. I’m not accepting that as a rule of law.”
He’s actively hiring more lawyers to make money off this insanity!
He’s actively hiring more lawyers to make money off this insanity!
8/ Show me ONE phase III study that supports Ivermectin? It’s not law we physicians are basing this on. It’s science, or the lack thereof.
My oath to you is first to “do no harm.” If a medicine isn’t helping, it can only hurt.
My oath to you is first to “do no harm.” If a medicine isn’t helping, it can only hurt.
9/fin
Ivermectin is @US_FDA approved for roundworms & some parasites in humans. The FDA has tried to debunk claims that animal-strength versions can help #COVID19, warning that taking large doses can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, #delirium and even death. 🛑
Ivermectin is @US_FDA approved for roundworms & some parasites in humans. The FDA has tried to debunk claims that animal-strength versions can help #COVID19, warning that taking large doses can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, #delirium and even death. 🛑
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