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The following is written by Dr. Harvey Risch who is one of the heroes of the pandemic. He wrote the following at Real Clear Health and I am taking the liberty of republishing it here:
When the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, Ashish Jha, noted that “G-d gave us two arms” as part of a coordinated push encouraging both the flu and Covid vaccines, it represented more than an offhand quip. Jha’s statement showed that even as the global pandemic recedes, the “government-knows-best” mentality of the last two and a half years is here to stay.
In today’s climate, it may not be easy, but doctors must be willing to demonstrate professional independence. Doctors should always trust their own instincts and expertise, drawing from the full spectrum of observational, academic, and personal evidence to offer treatment to patients as they think best, without fear of reprisal or political pressure.
This is especially difficult at a time when certification boards and even states threaten doctors who exercise independent judgment. The California State Senate has passed legislation—which is sitting on Governor Newsom’s desk—that would take legal action against medical practitioners deemed guilty of “mis-informing” patients about Covid vaccines. But the vaccine risks have been carefully enumerated. Why should doctors who discuss these facts with patients be threatened with the loss of their livelihoods? Don’t patients have the right to receive informed consent? Isn’t that obligatory for doctors to provide?
Science is not static. It is always evolving. The pandemic has shown time and again that theories dismissed one day as fringe can become established, and then even further refined. Early in the pandemic The National Institutes of Health emphatically recommended against the use of corticosteroids to treat Covid, then a few months later it reversed course. And of course, Fauci has flip-flopped on masks and on lockdowns since March 2020—and regrets nothing. Most important of all, for a year and a half, CDC maintained that the Covid EUA vaccines strongly reduced population risk of infection transmission. Full stop. Any other message was deemed “misinformation.” Remarkably, on August 11, CDC itself publicly admitted that taking two vaccine doses does not prevent transmission, and that booster doses provide only transient and waning benefit. That is, that the vaccines have failed as a public health response to limiting Covid infection. Many scientists and doctors already observed this failure six-to-nine months ago. Should telling that fact to patients have been illegal then but allowable now?
Punishing or delegitimizing doctors who exercise independent judgment flies in the face of hundreds of years of medical practice. Some are fighting back. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has just filed suit in the Southern District of Texas against the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the American Board of Family Medicine, who have been threatening to de-certify doctors for expressing independent judgment. Several doctors have sued the FDA for unjustly influencing their independent medical practices.
The trust between patient and doctor must be repaired as soon as possible, and especially ahead of the next major public health crisis. We need to learn from two years of avoidable mistakes that have inflicted untold pain and cost lives needlessly.
Telemedicine has important roles to play in this process. The practice, which is essentially a virtual face-to-face visit with a medical professional, makes it easier for patients to access doctors, as well as to obtain second opinions. More than 20 percent of Americans already use telemedicine for their health needs. With 74 percent of doctors practicing in tightly controlled hospital or corporate medical environments, telemedicine provides patients with a pathway to access independent-minded doctors who exhibit critical thinking and draw from a broader range of evidence and practice to treat individual needs and circumstances.
Not all telemedicine groups allow unfettered doctor expertise and independence. But the recognition that a large fraction of doctor-patient interactions can be carried out by telemedicine, and that patients benefit by saving substantial travel and waiting time and have access to a wider geographic distribution of care, has stimulated its broader use. It’s a major opportunity to reverse the trend of increasing straitjacket corporatism of medicine and return ability back to independent doctors who use their considered expertise to do the best for their patients.
With the pandemic waning, I hope that more doctors will rediscover their intellectual independence and practice medicine freely without fear.
Dr. Harvey Risch is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and a Medical Advisory Board Member at The Wellness Company.
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Marty Lawing was the county manager for Guilford County until the end of 2020. He served under the Republican majority that controlled the Board of County Commissioners until the socialists took over Guilford County government with the 2020 election cycle.
It turns out that Lawing is now working in a comparable position in Fort Myers, Florida where Hurricane Ian made its direct hit. He is therefore on the hot seat coordinating the local response.
There are many folks in Florida who need lots of prayer right now. The county sheriff in that area was quoted earlier today that there have already been hundreds of fatalities in that county alone.
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Here is an outstanding essay on the state of American medicine by Richard Amerling, MD in the wake of the Covid-19 debacle. I am taking the liberty of republishing it here. While I might not agree with every single statement, this is overall a very important piece:
By Richard Amerling, MD – https://www.twc.health/
American medicine has become unmoored from its scientific and ethical anchors, as I have previously discussed. We abandoned real science for the pseudoscientific cult of evidence-based medicine. This grave error paved the way for the medical tyranny we are currently enduring, with no apparent end in sight. But the wholesale abandonment of medical ethics is a far more serious problem. After all, ethics predates our scientific understanding of medicine by millennia! Ethics are based on morality, not legality. Morality and legality are not interchangeable. We should not be able to redefine ethics to accommodate current law or fads. Otherwise, medicine quickly becomes a tool of the state.
The Oath of Hippocrates remains the purest expression of medical ethics, and I encourage all to review it. Note that the precise wording “primum non nocere” or “first do no harm,” a core ethical principle attributed by some to Hippocrates, is not in the Oath, but the concept is there, along with the duty to teach and to honor one’s teachers, to consult learned colleagues, to devote one’s attention and art to the patient, to keep confidentiality, to respect life, and specifically never to kill, either via euthanasia or abortion! There’s not a word in the Oath about following guidelines and protocols.
It’s no wonder the Oath has been revised, disrespected, or ignored by the unethical elites who dominate Medicine. The modern practice of medicine would leave Hippocrates appalled!
I am a witness to the degradation of Medicine; it was largely self-inflicted. Perhaps the first step down the slippery slope was the surrender, without so much as a whimper, of medical confidentiality. Agreeing to provide confidential patient information to the various third-party payers was a gross violation of medical ethics. Accepting third-party payment is itself unethical, as it can create conflicts of interest that diminish allegiance to the patient. Direct payment is the only truly ethical system of physician compensation. We need to reestablish confidentiality at the same level as the lawyer-client, pastor-parishioner, and journalist-source, relationships.
Abortion is the killing of a human being in utero. It is clearly unethical and immoral. Legalization of abortion should not have impacted the ethical prohibition against this horrific procedure. The silent acquiescence to abortion by the American Medical Association, and others, created an indelible stain on the medical profession. Contrary to popular opinion, there are no legitimate “health of the mother” indications for abortion. Induction of labor or Cesarian section is almost always an option, even with severe eclampsia. Physicians who perform abortions are in gross violation of medical ethics.
The worldwide mass “vaccination” program is an egregious violation of medical ethics. People were coerced into taking an experimental gene-based product without any long-term safety data, and with alarming short-term safety signals. Informed consent to take part in this massive experiment was nonexistent. All physicians should have refused to go along, on ethical and scientific grounds.
The latest affront to medical ethics, and science, is the transgender movement. The notion of “gender” independent of biological sex is a scientific absurdity, as is the toxic idea that puberty-blocking drugs and mutilating surgery can change gender. Gender dysphoria is a most often a transient condition of adolescence or pre-adolescence. It should be addressed by psychotherapy, not highly toxic drugs or surgery. Removal of healthy organs by medical or surgical castration and mastectomy is a gross violation of primum non nocere and clearly unethical.
Filmmaker and journalist Matt Walsh reports on the gender transformation clinic at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Hospital:
In 2018, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game by emphasizing that it’s a “big money maker,” especially because the surgeries require a lot of “follow ups.” Dr. Ellen Clayton warned that “conscientious objections” are “problematic.” Anyone who decides not to be involved in transition surgeries due to “religious beliefs” will face “consequences.” After they have drugged and sterilized the kids, Vanderbilt will happily perform double mastectomies on adolescent girls.
Apparently in response to Walsh’s report, Vanderbilt has deleted the entire transgender website.
Why are the sheep that now pose as physicians silent on this travesty? I am calling on all remaining ethical physicians to speak out loudly against the mutilation of our children.
Doctors must defend life, and reject procedures that are entirely without benefit, and that inflict considerable harm.
Medical ethics has become an oxymoron. If we are to save the medical profession, we must restore real Hippocratic ethics as a first priority.
Author bio: Dr. Amerling is a native New Yorker. He graduated Stuyvesant High School, City College of New York, then earned his medical degree at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium in 1981. Dr. Amerling completed his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, at New York Hospital, Queens in 1986. In 1988 he completed a Nephrology Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and holds board certification in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. He is Past-President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Amerling’s work has been published as chapters in textbooks and in peer-reviewed medical journals. He has published numerous op-Eds and letters on health care economics and politics. From 1990-2016 Dr. Amerling was on staff at the Beth Israel Medical Center (now Mount Sinai Beth Israel). In October 2016, Dr. Amerling accepted a position as Professor at St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada. From April-August 2020, after SGU went to online teaching, he volunteered as a nephrologist at NYU/Bellevue to help with their acute dialysis program. In July 2021, Dr. Amerling was placed on administrative leave by SGU for non-compliance with their vaccine mandate, and ultimately terminated in January 2022. He is a founding member and Principal Academic Officer of The Wellness Company.
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The link is found here to give to North Carolina Baptist disaster relief, which is already sending teams to help folks down to Florida.
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Pres. Biden: "If Russia invades...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."
— ABC News (@ABC) February 7, 2022
Reporter: "But how will you do that, exactly, since...the project is in Germany's control?"
Biden: "I promise you, we will be able to do that." https://t.co/uruQ4F4zM9 pic.twitter.com/4ksDaaU0YC
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It is always worth listening to Dr. Peter McCullough.
In the course of this interview with Steve Bannon, he discusses how the drive for mass vaccination and a "global power grab" dictated the approach to handling Covid-19. He calls for malfeasance hearings if the GOP takes over the U.S. House of Representatives. He raises questions about the collusion that took place between the CDC and major media organizations:
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