Summary: Sentara hospital admin wants Dexamethasone and Remdesivir to be used.
But not Ivermectin, Fluvoxamine etc.
Dr Paul Marik is saying in his last shift, no one survived. And asks for his privilege to treat restored.
November 18, 2021 was the court hearing.
See Dr Been interview of Dr Paul Marik, and the FLCCC update video with Dr Joe Varon and Dr Pierre Kory - see both videos below.
Must watch is The Blaze interview - see rough transcript below.
UPDATE: 2021-11-19 - Dr Marik and Sentara exec takes the stand:
https://www.wtkr.com/investigations/norfolk-doctor-leading-charge-for-controversial-covid-19-treatment-faces-off-against-sentara-in-court
Norfolk doctor leading charge for controversial COVID-19 treatment faces off against Sentara in court
By: Erin Miller , Web Staff
Nov 19, 2021
NORFOLK, Va. - News 3 is continuing coverage on an investigation that we have been reporting on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.
This is the latest update in the News 3 investigation: “Norfolk doctor leading charge for controversial COVID-19 treatment.”
On Thursday, Sentara Healthcare faced off in court with one of their own doctors, Paul Marik.
Marik, who is the director of the Critical Care Unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, is suing the healthcare system because they won't allow him to treat COVID-19 patients with the drug ivermectin, along with a host of other drugs that make up his developed MATH+ Protocol.
"Almost all of the treatments we use have been demonstrated to be safe and effective in randomized controlled trials," Marik said.
Marik claims that Sentara's policy may have led to the deaths of four of his patients who were never given the opportunity to learn of or be treated with potentially life-saving medicines. He said these actions are criminal.
"It's not just for me; it's for patients across the whole country. They have the right to choose what treatment they want," Marik said Thursday. "It's an outrage and yet there are other effective treatments available that they are trying to silence. The patients across this country need to know that they have options."
Marik's support of ivermectin was the subject of a different News 3 investigation in September.
He and a group of doctors pointed to a list of smaller studies suggesting the drug is safe and effective at treating COVID-19, but other doctors say there needs to be more data for bigger clinical trials.
In a statement, Sentara said they follow guidance of health agencies that don't currently recommend the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.
Sentara Healthcare is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the nation for quality and patient safety, and follows evidence-based protocols to treat COVID-19 as recommended by trusted agencies including the CDC, NIH and FDA. All of these agencies currently do not recommend the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 due to a lack of evidence regarding its safety and efficacy. Sentara generates treatment guidelines by engaging multi-disciplinary groups of clinicians to review literature, care standards and provide expert advice. In most situations, physicians are able to deviate from guidelines to individualize care for patients. However, in some scenarios, treatments that may potentially harm patients or that are widely considered to be outside the standard of care may be limited.
To that end, COVID-19 treatment guidelines at Sentara have been consistently communicated to all medical staff throughout the pandemic using usual channels. The most recent guidelines generated by the multi-disciplinary group of clinicians did include, but were not limited to, guidance on the use of ivermectin. All members of the medical staff receive the same guidelines.
Of note, on Tuesday, November 9, prior to when we were informed about Dr. Marik’s lawsuit, the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine’s (JICM) editorial board retracted [journals.sagepub.com] a recent article that Dr. Marik co-authored on the MATH+ protocol, in which ivermectin is used. Sentara Healthcare felt obligated to reach out to JICM with our concerns about Sentara Norfolk General Hospital data that the authors used to make conclusions, and provide accurate data to the Journal. After thorough review by JICM’s editorial board, the article was retracted. The Journal followed their retraction guidelines and procedures.
There was a pretty good sized group of people outside the court complex Thursday showing their support for Dr. Marik before he went into the courtroom.
There were people who claimed ivermectin saved their loved ones who were in the hospital with COVID-19 and others who believed their family died because they didn't have the option.
In the courtroom, Marik took the stand, arguing this court case isn’t about telling what Sentara to do, but rather about patient consent.
Sentara, on the other hand, says otherwise. They believe this is an attempt to "force" them into providing treatment that they deem unsafe.
Sentara's Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Dr. Joel Bundy, took the stand to argue this. During questioning, he said there are processes that each hospital must go through in order to administer certain pharmaceuticals. According to Bundy, Sentara Healthcare has 12 high performance teams that set these standards.
Sentara, along with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) advise against prescribing ivermectin to COVID patients. They said in court that Marik has no standing.
It's important to note that Sentara guidelines do not prohibit Marik from advising people of the ivermectin option for COVID patients, they just can't receive that treatment at Sentara.
Marik’s attorney, Fred Taylor, explained what would happen if the judge rules in Marik's favor and allows the temporary injunction.
"If Dr. Marik or another doctor for that matter decides it's in their patient’s best interest - they talk to their patients about it, their patient also concurs - then that gives them the opportunity to have this medication,” said Taylor.
"It seems to me it's what the committee says versus what we think, you know what I mean? It's the patient, it's the physician who is at the bedside; I am responsible for the patient,” Marik said.
We asked Sentara if they would be doing any interviews, but they said not at this time.
Now, the case is in the judge's hands.
He says he'll provide an answer as soon as he can, but likely not before Marik is expected at the hospital for his rotation on Saturday.
The Norfolk Circuit Court Clerks Office later said the judge will make a ruling sometime next week.
News 3 will continue to update this story as we learn more.
EDIT: 2021-11-19 - more interviews of Dr Paul Marik on lawsuit:
https://odysee.com/@FrontlineCovid19CriticalCareAlliance:c/AMERICA-RIGHT-NOW-MARIK-111321:8
FLCCC’s Paul Marik, M.D. on America Right Now with Tom Basile on Newsmax
November 16th, 2021
On Saturday FLCCC’s Paul Marik, M.D. joined America Right Now with Tom Basile on Newsmax to discuss his case that was filed and served last Tuesday, November 9, 2021, against Sentara Healthcare for instituting a policy that prevents Dr. Marik and other physicians from administering proven, life-saving treatments. “This about standing up for the right of physicians across this country and across the world."
“I use a host of medications that have been proven in randomized controlled trials to reduce mortality from COVID-19, yet the hospital is prohibiting me from using them.”
“There are 10s of thousands of physicians across the world using this protocol, yet I am prohibited from using the medications in it. We have hospital administrators telling the bedside physician how to manage this complicated disease.”
https://twitter.com/Emiller_reports/status/1461378961896841223?t=mZFNifm9FAzR_kBylofXdQ&s=19
Dr. Paul Marik arrives at the courthouse with tears in his eyes. He says it’s about saving lives: https://t.co/VDd6dAwxE0 @WTKR3 https://t.co/10wf1cbj8I
(see video)
https://twitter.com/Covid19Critical/status/1461397655670697987?t=aHP17YQQA1dIKdMnQwFRIw&s=19
Dr. Sheila Furey speaks to the crowd at the Norfolk in advance of the hearing on Dr. Marik’s lawsuit against Sentara Health System. https://t.co/NbsVCiZ0Dt
(see video)
https://www.wtkr.com/news/investigations/norfolk-doctor-files-lawsuit-against-sentara-on-ban-of-ivermectin-use-to-treat-covid-19
WTKR3 article mentioned in tweet above:
https://www.wtkr.com/news/investigations/norfolk-doctor-files-lawsuit-against-sentara-on-ban-of-ivermectin-use-to-treat-covid-19
Norfolk doctor files lawsuit against Sentara on ban of Ivermectin use to treat COVID-19
Nov 11, 2021
NOTE: article and it's accompanying video report fails to mention that the Sentara hospital prohibition is not just against Ivermectin, but also Fluvoxamine.
Accompanying video report by Emily Miller for WTKR3 has interview with Dr Paul Marik and Dr David Boulware.
Irony is Dr David Boulware has been recently lamenting lack of recognition for Fluvoxamine, now that favorable results from TOGETHER trial are available, but may not realize here he needs to be in Dr Paul Marik's corner - no need to be triggered just by Ivermectin and turn off all support from doctors who find benefit with it.
https://twitter.com/boulware_dr/status/1461150092363137025?t=gfOc_-pKGIHg1nBdR1vLTw&s=19
David Boulware, MD MPH
Most people with COVID worldwide do not reside at a tertiary referral center with immediate access to MAb. For the 1% who do, MAb are great. For the 99% who don't have access to MAb, fluvoxamine is the next best therapy.
https://twitter.com/boulware_dr/status/1461154672991952904?t=4Wwm8TjekW_QH_N_Qb3Yng&s=19
David Boulware, MD MPH
By @IDSAInfo or @NIH providing no recommendation for any available oral therapy, these organizations are indirectly continuing to promote #ivermectin use by not providing any effective alternative for early #COVID19 therapy.
My explanation to Dr Boulware why anti-FLCCC sentiment harming to all
https://twitter.com/stereomatch2/status/1461453901232803849?t=F-aJxXn2GR3vLrm8ZCwy4w&s=19
In the single-minded effort to gang up and "expose" Dr Marik, for ivermectin and HAT protocol for sepsis, critics have unwittingly allied themselves into the wrong corner
Dr Marik promotes use of Fluvoxamine
Yet Sentara hospital wants only Dexamethasone and Remdesivir (!)
https://twitter.com/stereomatch2/status/1461453929426923521?t=KGKM8ZzYiDNTSczqaBwwLg&s=19
And are prohibiting not just IVM, but Fluvoxamine !!
Given that IVM prophylaxis and anosmia reversal in 1-2 days is evident to early treatment doctors (anosmia is skipped in Lopez-Medina), I wonder if same sepsis protocol is right as well
https://twitter.com/stereomatch2/status/1461454469640695817?t=t0i_f8a7KzkQOqxQJYcyLw&s=19
https://rescue.substack.com/p/americas-top-critical-care-doctor
On October 6, Dr. Marik had received an email message from Dr. Joel Bundy, MD, Sentara’s Chief Quality and Safety Officer ..
It essentially banned Marik and other doctors from using ivermectin, bicalutamide, etoposide, fluvoxamine, dutasteride ...
https://twitter.com/stereomatch2/status/1461455126233849856?t=s6RdmsCQob6NJqWgAfeQqw&s=19
Marik only one doing MATH+ at Sentara, so receives those who fail as expected on Dexa and Remdesivir on the floor
And he now saying patients dying - so suing
References:
https://twitter.com/drbeen_medical/status/1460984480923983874?t=TDGHeErf7Um2ak-pDfd5TQ&s=19
Prof. Dr. Paul Marik sits with the #KoolBeens today to discuss medical practice and controls over off-label use.
https://youtu.be/bXiDpMBvsO8
(Nov 17, 2021 - 12pm Pacific)
https://youtu.be/bXiDpMBvsO8
or
https://odysee.com/@DrMobeenSyed:1/a-talk-with-prof.-dr.-paul-marik-%2811-17:4
A Talk With Prof. Dr. Paul Marik (11/17/2021)
Drbeen Medical Lectures
Nov 18, 2021
A Talk With Prof. Dr. Paul Marik (11/17/2021) We are honored to have Prof. Dr. Paul Marik with us today. We will discuss the latest updates for his COVID management efforts.
https://www.twitter.com/Covid19Critical/status/1461439424206712838
Listen in as Dr. Paul Marik is joined by Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Joseph Varon to discuss Marik's legal case against Sentara Healthcare. #LetDoctorsBeDoctors
https://odysee.com/@FrontlineCovid19CriticalCareAlliance:c/FLCCC-WEBINAR-111721_FINAL:b
https://odysee.com/@FrontlineCovid19CriticalCareAlliance:c/FLCCC-WEBINAR-111721_FINAL:b
FLCCC Weekly Update: November 17, 2021: Dr. Marik's Fight—A Tale of Two Doctors
November 19th, 2021
As Dr. Paul Marik continues his fight to use proven, life-saving treatments to help save lives, he is joined by Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Joseph Varon - and together they discuss Marik's case to fight for a doctor's right to treat.
On the one hand, Dr. Joseph Varon is able to freely treat his critically ill patients in his ICU with the MATH+ protocol, while on the other hand, Dr. Paul Marik has been handcuffed from using these medicines that he knows work best.
Listen to the webinar as the FLCCC doctors discuss the importance of letting doctors be doctors by allowing them to treat their patients to the best of their ability.
The Blaze interview with Dr Paul Marik
Must watch interview - for it's breadth of coverage.
https://www.twitter.com/Covid19Critical/status/1461416634476867600
"There’s nothing more heartbreaking that being denied the right to cure COVID patients by a hospital protocol that offers patients no proven alternatives." ~Daniel Horowitz Watch the podcast in support of Dr. Marik's legal case:
https://www.theblaze.com/podcasts/daniel-horowitz-podcast
https://www.theblaze.com/podcasts/daniel-horowitz-podcast
Ep 995 | The ICU Doctor Suing for the Right to Cure | Guest: Dr. Paul Marik
Description
There’s nothing more heartbreaking that being denied the right to cure COVID patients by a hospital protocol that offers patients no proven alternatives. But that is the predicament of today’s guest, Dr. Paul Marik, who is suing a Virginia hospital for denying him the right to treat with any effective therapeutic, including even vitamin C. Marik, a professor of internal medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, is one of the most published and cited intensivists in the world. He has developed the FLCCC COVID protocol that has saved countless lives, and now he is suing Sentara Healthcare for preventing him from using them in the ICU.
Rough transcript:
Dr Paul Marik section is at 20:00 minute mark:
mentions is made out to be ivermectin
But is actually all MATH+ drugs
And they want me to use Remdesivir which not effective and also expensive - and hospital earns more
Talks about Fluvoxamine
And anti-androgen therapy
They have banned these safe drugs
Perfect low side effects for women
Scientific data supports
This is an issue about repurposed drugs vs big pharma drugs
They dont like idea that repurposed drugs
40pct of drugs in ICU are off label
Suddenly with covid19 and can't use safe repurposed drugs
What they say works is Remdesivir and low dose 6mg dexamethasone (!) - which we know is not sufficient for very serious patients that we get ("homeopathic dose")
why methylprednisolone better
Dr Umberto Meduri world expert on steroids - he suggested - we used April 2020 - when agencies saying no steroids
Much more concentration in lungs - so better results with lower dose
genomic changes in covid19 - helps there
clinical data says better
Doctors keep using dexamethasone
RECOVERY UK study used - but clearly is an inferior drug
Sentara banned from using Vitamin C infusions
This was targeting me because I popularized Vitamin C - recent 2 RCTs using vitamin c showing improvement in outcome
Cheap repurposed drug and they dont like that
Host mentions doctor treating for free - whose patients benefit from vitamin c infusions
Your were getting better mortality
Important is serious disease - treat early
NIH medical malpractice if say wait for hypoxia
Immune response killing - like a fire - but if wait engulfs almost impossible to put out
Many of patients who come to ICU - come from floor inadequately treated - Remdesivir and dexamethasone
NYC was 88pct mortality
with no treatment
With our combination - can get down ICU mortaiity to 40pct
Joe Varon - everyone gets MATH+
US/EU - 21pct
His hospital is 7pct
Doesnt save everybody - but is related to timing
If early - very rare to die
Clinicians have to do whatever can to save lives
Patients I see have failed - common sense and do something different - as not allowed to use additional
After change - had 7 - 6 died - and 1 dying
I am sure could make difference - but prevented
Vitamin D and C levels - are exceedingly low in both asymptomatic and symptomatic
It is an outrage that dont supplement long term care patients
Active calcifediol - none proceeded to severe
Shuts off cytokine storm
I cant get calcifediol - not ban it - but if do may ban
If is expensive they may allow
In acute ICU need to use active form calcifediol
Such prohibitions not exist for any other disease
colleagues turning blind eye - afraid to stand up to absurdity
Host - noticed some crash - while people are on vent but then stable for weeks
Whats behind that?
Basic problem is macrophage turned on
Disease progresses - but inflammation not controlled get fibrosis lung damage - then no way of getting on vent - is a miserable and awful death
we know how disease progresses
Once lung scarred there is no turning back
Thats why want to treat aggressively up front
Need to do CAT scan - to distinguish inflammation or damaged lung - in 2-3 weeks - steroids and ivermectin - is reversible
now personalized treatment
Applying same to all as being told is absurd - has to be individualized
How many on ventilators who not got scarring yet - how many if gave ivermectin and high dose steroids - how many could save
Critical issue - 18months and still treating doctors still not understand disease
Many physicians have eyes closed
Kidney failure - is one of problems
Part may be excess serotonin - and hospital is questioning why
And drug toxicity Remdesivir - is 2nd commonest organ to fail
Renal failure - want to do early treatment to prevent
Lawsuit - how interact and are they
supporting
Yes difficult - covid19 families not allowed into hospital
Usually families part of treatment - now they left out - dont know is alternate therapy
There are families who ask for escalation of therapy and hospital declines
Assessment of virus more aggressive
What works still
No question Delta more viral concentration - and faster to lung damage
Still ivermectin, fluvoxamine still work - but early
https://rescue.substack.com/p/americas-top-critical-care-doctor
America's Top Critical Care Doctor Sues to Save His Patients and the Hippocratic Oath (Paul Marik, Part I).
Dr. Marik helplessly watched seven covid patients die needlessly after his hospital denied his use of life-saving drugs. He goes to court Thursday for the right to use his judgement to save lives.
Michael Capuzzo
Nov 16, 2021
Dr. Paul Marik, endowed professor at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, the most published critical care doctor in the U.S., and chief of the ICU at Norfolk’s top hospital, led the discovery and development of the most widely used treatment protocols for covid-19, saving countless lives. Why would a hospital try to stop him?
On October 6, Dr. Marik had received an email message from Dr. Joel Bundy, MD, Sentara’s Chief Quality and Safety Officer ..
It essentially banned Marik and other doctors from using ivermectin, bicalutamide, etoposide, fluvoxamine, dutasteride ...
https://twitter.com/BetsyAshton1/status/1460382432914464773?t=mo24OaggNeoiy3zA9lI9Nw&s=19
Dr. Pierre Kory: "Barring Dr. Marik from using the medicines he believes will help his patients is unconscionable, contrary to reason and science." (Marik, Part II)
https://rescue.substack.com/p/dr-pierre-kory-barring-dr-marik-from
https://rescue.substack.com/p/dr-pierre-kory-barring-dr-marik-from
Dr. Pierre Kory: "Barring Dr. Marik from using the medicines he believes will help his patients is unconscionable, contrary to reason and science." (Marik, Part II)
Dr. Kory and Dr. Joseph Varon have saved thousands of covid patients who would have died elsewhere without the protocols Marik and these FLCCC physicians developed.
Joyce Kamen
Nov 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/BetsyAshton1/status/1460382738238820354?t=nmyuEXpygJU1D5DMzjO32Q&s=19
A Virginia Doctor Calls for a Protest this Thursday Outside the Circuit Court in Norfolk to Support Dr. Paul Marik (Part III)
https://rescue.substack.com/p/a-virginia-doctor-calls-for-a-protest
https://rescue.substack.com/p/a-virginia-doctor-calls-for-a-protest
A Virginia Doctor Calls for a Protest this Thursday Outside the Circuit Court in Norfolk to Support Dr. Paul Marik (Part III)
Dr Sheila Furey has saved many patients with Marik's protocols; "We need to send a message to the judge and to Sentara hospital that the doctor-patient relationship is sacred."
Sheila Furey, MD
Nov 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/Covid19Critical/status/1460071187325894659?t=_Ba4fNi7i60padGiM1emHw&s=19
“Just think about the ethical ramifications of prohibiting a therapeutic intervention to a sick patient. This has to come to an end.” —Dr. Joe Varon
https://www.facebook.com/611267803/posts/10158865831932804/
https://www.facebook.com/611267803/posts/10158865831932804/
Joseph Varon
11 November at 15:02 ·
Wow...COVID-19.....What a number have you done on the USA. We are more divided than ever. Everything related to this illness is argued, both by the scientific community and lay people. Everyone is an expert on this illness. I have been seeing COVID-19 patients for 602 days and I can tell you, this is a back-stabbing illness, and instead of everyone being an expert, we should all work together to control this pandemic.
Along with 4 other amazing colleagues, I co-founded the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC.net) in an attempt to learn more about the illness and offer treatment strategies that could be followed by others in order to avoid more demises. We created several protocols, that in our hands worked amazingly, but since then, we have been attacked, non-stop, by those who don't believe in us or our protocols, for one or other reason. In the past, these medical disputes were dealt with in academic environments by scientists. Now, the media make this a "show" and things get worst.
To what point we have gotten, that our Co-Chief Medical Officer at FLCCC, Dr. Paul Marik, filed suit against Sentara Healthcare System for instituting a policy preventing him and other physicians from administering proven, life-saving treatments. Just think about the ethical ramifications of prohibiting a therapeutic intervention to a sick patient. Wow...just wow!
This has to come to an end. We are all here trying to save lives. I work non-stop, and I see that these therapeutic interventions make a difference in the outcome of my patients.
I welcome any ideas to create an homogenous message to the scientific community as well as lay people in order to help humanity.
there doesn't seem to be anything here