When your doctor works for a corporation and they tell him or her that no ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine will be prescribed (unless patient has rickets or RA), then your doctor will not be prescribing it. Ditto for the doc in the hospital. Unless your doctor has a private practice with no affiliation (because if he is affiliated w a hospital and prescribes it, goodbye privileges. And then find a pharmacy that will fill it (usually a compounder). It won't be your local, friendly Walgreens. Why? See above.
Exactly. And a good model we can generalize. Why do multi-state or even state medical boards exist? To protect patients...so that was the promise. Concentrate power so as to "protect" - safety, security, and the common good. Once power is concentrated, it will be abused. And as I've said for decades, that is not a slippery slope, kids, it's a cliff. It may seem fine to step off, for a while it even feels "free", but it never ends well.
This is true. But the message of these "truth guidelines" is that even if you are one of those few docs who practices independently you will follow the approved doctrine or you will not "practice" at all. This is another one of the incremental stories that has been creeping for years but 2020 showed they need not creep, or be subtle or clever, anymore.
When your doctor works for a corporation and they tell him or her that no ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine will be prescribed (unless patient has rickets or RA), then your doctor will not be prescribing it. Ditto for the doc in the hospital. Unless your doctor has a private practice with no affiliation (because if he is affiliated w a hospital and prescribes it, goodbye privileges. And then find a pharmacy that will fill it (usually a compounder). It won't be your local, friendly Walgreens. Why? See above.
This is the problem with the whole idea of a multi-state board who can fire you for not doing things their way.
That is ONE of the problems.
LOL fair point!
Exactly. And a good model we can generalize. Why do multi-state or even state medical boards exist? To protect patients...so that was the promise. Concentrate power so as to "protect" - safety, security, and the common good. Once power is concentrated, it will be abused. And as I've said for decades, that is not a slippery slope, kids, it's a cliff. It may seem fine to step off, for a while it even feels "free", but it never ends well.
This is true. But the message of these "truth guidelines" is that even if you are one of those few docs who practices independently you will follow the approved doctrine or you will not "practice" at all. This is another one of the incremental stories that has been creeping for years but 2020 showed they need not creep, or be subtle or clever, anymore.
Yes, that does seem to be the way it is going. Quickly.