I live within walking distance of a hospital. I hope I never have to visit.
Going on frequent walks and bike rides has been good for me over these last years. But in doing so, I have had close encounters with unfriendlies, multiple charging dogs, and even a copperhead last year that I was on top of before I knew what it was. Then there's the risk of crashing into or over something on my bike, especially in dim light. I typically spent some time after each close call thinking about what level of pain and suffering I could tolerate before I submitted myself for hospital treatment.
I really don't like tattoos, but I thought about having "No vaccines authorized," perhaps adding some politely stated threat, tattooed to my chest. That way brainwashed hospital militants couldn't claim they didn't know.
I’m with you - I was riding my bike to work predawn and was on top of an 8 foot alligator resting half on the nice warm bike path before I realized he wasn’t a black garbage bag! He hissed but did not chase😱
When my nephew went in to have his diseased kidneys removed at age 18, he wrote "NO, on his penis, so they would not mistake his penis for his kidneys.
His Mom donated one of her kidneys which also failed 10 years later. He has been on dialysis for almost 15 years, he is 42.
You can get stencils for semi-permanent ink tattoos. The ink lasts a couple of weeks and is waterproof but not permanent. Ask Grok this question: "what companies will sell me semi-permanent tattoos where I can specify the text?".
Thank a liberal, democrat, progressive or rino. Our tax dollars at work to make themselves and their donors "richer", regardless of the death and destruction.
Dr. Paul Marik had a high & impressive degree of success treating sepsis with high dose intravenous vitamin C in the ICU where he formerly worked before the hospital put him through a sham peer review following his attempts to treat patients with covid with ivermectin. For the life of me, I do not understand why using IV vitamin C for sepsis has not been adopted by every hospital. But then again, all we have to do is remember how patients with covid were treated in our nation's hospitals, with remdesivir & ventilators. Then we can better understand why using IV vitamin C for sepsis is not being used.
Here is more about Dr. Marik's success with IV Vitamin C for sepsisInterview with Dr. Paul Marik on Vitamin C Protocol for Sepsis
DrPaulMarikVideo.jpg
WAVY TV 10
Dr. Paul Marik
As reported by Dr. Thomas Levy in his article Vitamin C and Sepsis: The Genie Is Now out of the Bottle, Dr. Paul Marik from the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia has developed and tested a new protocol in his intensive care unit (ICU) for patients diagnosed with advanced sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis is a body-wide infection that rapidly evolves to a state of low blood pressure (shock) and multi-organ failure due to both the infection itself and the poor blood flow secondary to the low blood pressure.
After the first life-saving success, his vitamin C / hydrocortisone / thiamine protocol was used to treat 47 consecutive septic patients over seven months in 2016. He compared the results he achieved with these patients in a retrospective manner with a control group of septic patients treated without his new protocol during the prior seven months, simply looking at the outcome of survival.
Dr. Marik's results were stunning. Only 4 of the 47 patients treated with the protocol did not survive (8.5%), while 19 of the 47 control patients (who did not receive this protocol) died (40.4%). None of the treated patients developed any organ failure, and all of the treated patients were able to be weaned off of vasopressors (blood pressure-supporting drugs) within roughly 24 hours of starting the protocol.
Dr. Marik also noted that all four of the treated patients who died did not die of sepsis-related shock, but from their underlying conditions.
Following this study, Dr. Marik increased the number of treated patients with severe sepsis and septic shock to 150, and only person one from that group died from the sepsis itself. Moving from a 30-50 percent mortality utilizing standard treatment protocols for sepsis to achieving a sepsis-related mortality of less than 1% using IV vitamin C / hydrocortosone / thiamine therapy in this small treatment group is nothing short of miraculous. His protocol has since been lab-tested and proven to work. It is now used regularly at Eastern Virginia Medical School to treat sepsis.
Dr. Marik describes his work and experience in this video.
Full interview with Dr. Paul Marik
WAVY TV 10
Dr. Paul Marik, a critical care doctor at EVMS, believes he has found the cure for sepsis, a common infection that gets into the blood and kills 1,000 people a day in the U.S. alone.
I have Mariks sepsis vit C protocol in my living will and advance directive to my family. I'm sure the hospital will refuse, but on the slim chance the state of medicine has improved by then. Tragic tragic, another unnecessary idiotic loss of a precious child.
I have this in my notes on my phone for emergency use with the dosage of Vitamin C—I could not find the dosage for hydrocortisone and thiamin, nor the frequency of dosage. I also need to inform my family about it too.
I will try to find those dosages & add them to my previous comment if I am successful. It may take a while but I am a very determined person by nature, so will see what I can find.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the 60% are oblivious to the constructed reality perpetrated by Legacy Media and the dark forces in our own government.
"At the time of admission, the girl’s father specifically requested that she be treated with inhaled budesonide by nebulizer. The UMC Hospital staff refused this request, and appear to have treated her as if she was suffering from COVID rather than ARDS"
The question arises of whether the hospital was responding to the reimbursement incentives established by the government, rather than to the medically-appropriate treatment. Did the hospital receive more reimbursement for a Covid treatment than for a ARDS treatment? This is a first-hand account of a physician who personally observed medical personnel administer a treatment they knew would kill the patient because that treatment resulted in more reimbursement for the hospital. https://rumble.com/v5hb3xv-whistleblower-doctor-speaks-out-hospitals-are-mandating-murder.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mattyivanovic
Lord have mercy on us, for the evil, that is occurring in the medical professions.
I recently had the experience with needing care and had to see many doctors to get things sorted out. Mind you, part of my reason for care, is because of a DOCTOR messing up. My point, you would not believe the cold and callousness of ALL but one physician I meet with. My husband was shocked at how unfeeling and rude they were. It was not us. We were pleasant and listened respectfully. We were not difficult at all.
Something is VERY wrong in the Medical field. I think it started when we separated the patient from the doctor under Obama Care. Now 90% of doctors belong under a Corporate umbrella. Big business has intruded into the doctor/ patient relationship. If you want to see an independent doctor, you have to pay out of pocket.
I had an email interchange with my (previous) GP in 2020 about what the std procedure / treatment is for someone arriving at hospital with Covid. I won't paste it in here, too long, but basically HE pasted in from his computer the word for word protocol eliciting the CORPORATE protocol including all Pfizer stuff listed off etc.
The point being: ALL the hospitals and ALL their doctors who are employed by the hospital or a corporate Healthcare company that WORKS WITH the hospital have the same rigid protocol, much or mostly adjusted for FDA approval to cover their asses.
They don't care about the patients; they DO care about being sued and maximizing Medicare reimbursement. It appears the era is gone where you could expect your doctor to do what is BEST for YOU. It's what is best for them and theirs.
Along with the government, insurance companies also mandate certain treatments (which are likely to conflict with the doctor's recommendation). Basically, they promote delay over expensive treatments: betting that the patient will die or get something worse before needing the original treatment. Statistically, they are guaranteed to gain from this strategy.
The John Hopkins study nails it.I have that in my Bookmarks. Sorry for the family. Losing a child in this way is the worst. The child would have been better off with homeopathic meds from Washington Homeopathic. Unless you have a broken arm or neck, feed your immune system organic foods, lots of time outdoors, play in the dirt and avoid doctors and hospitals...Dr. Malone notwithstanding.
Gary Null wrote a book prior to 2016 explaining medicine is the third leading cause of death in the United States. I’ll say it again why are we ignoring C Diff that is killing at least 30,000 Americans each year a half million Americans, who survive! He also protested the Covid con.
I, for one, acutely remember that Hospitals sued for the right to kill their patients (suppress alternative medication or removal from the Hospital) under Covid. That memory causes me considerable trauma whenever I need to interact with the medical profession, especially hospitals.
Several (at least) cases. Usually the hospitals won and the patients lost. Most of the losing patients died, often alone, in the mandated treatment protocol and denied alternative treatment protocols. The hospitals got paid $100,000 dollars or more per patient from the government for following the full Covid protocols to their endpoint.
This is so sad beyond words for me! I was not a pediatric nurse on purpose. I preferred adults. Last 15 years in Cardiovascular ICU. Better known as “Open Heart”. We cared. We cared!!!
A child! Oh how this hurts! I will be an advocate for my husband who can’t make decisions now. But a child!!! A father knew to request a specific medicine!! May this new administration step up and stop this.
I have no problem believing the statistic of medical mismanagement being the third leading cause of death in the US based on the many mistakes I've experienced in hospital, including 2 which meant I ended up in critical care on a ventilator without sedation for almost 24 hours. It was the surgery which broke the PTSD camel's back.
Thank you for sharing this with us. It helps to be aware and better able to reflect on the course of events.
It's of particular interest to me, having gone through measles, mono and very frequent alpha-strep infections in my youth.
Dr Makary, in his recent book and in his ETV TL interview brought up the fallabilties of medical care and need for humility.
These cases occurred in hospital settings. I've personally been reflecting on the potential fallibility of the setup that's been developed. At one time, attending physicians were involved and pretty competent in caring for their patients and attending to their care if hospitalized. Now, the primary care provider has become a referral service. Hospitals contract with or hire hospitalists. To me, this represents a threat to the contenuity of care and right decisions.
So, why did these two hospitals come up with fatal therapeutics? Were attending physicians intimately involved, would there have been better outcomes? Do ATs/PC MDs need more training to play a meaningful role?
I'm hoping the current thrust to improve our health will also note and look into these gaps in the system.
Wow that is terrible. Last week I had back surgery. I was given the antibiotic Cefazolin because of having surgery. When I was talking to the anesthesiologist I ask if it was related to cephprozil . He said no it was a different line. When I had my last child I got serum sickness. I had an allergic reaction to the antibiotic they were giving me and started spiking fevers. After a week in the hospital they finally figured it out. In the mean time they were so worried that I had an infection.
Well guess what I started spiking fevers. It didn’t happen right away but started on the second day. What should have been an overnight stay turned into 5 days. Thankfully my Dr listened to me. He ran a bunch of blood tests plus gave me antihistamines. When the blood test white blood cell count was normal and my fever started to go down.
He sent me home. So here I am at home keeping my fever down by taking Celebrix, Tylenol and antihistimes. The surgery was a success he even found a calcified substance the size of a pea stuck on my nerve. My nerve was red. It is suppose to be white. It didn’t show up on the MRIs that I have had. Thank heavens he found it and took it out. . What if I was given more antibiotics. My fever would have ended up even higher. I’m so thank for my good Dr. and that he listened to me.
I feel so sad for the child’s parents whose Dr gave the wrong medicines.
Be proactive in your health. You have to know I am allergic to most antibiotics.
While studying continuing education for maintenance of my certification, I read an article recommending doctors should not interrupt a patient at presentation until 2 minutes, or the patient stops speaking. One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten.
Have a D.O. now and think he's good. Perhaps the med ed field has evolved to the negative since Dr. Malone's school days. When I was a kid, seems like all of the docs were M.D.s. The holistic D.O. approach maybe detours around the big pharma/money trap?
Praying for you, Melanie. Our daughter has had two back surgeries, neither any fun, one through the back, the other through the tum. She's back in the saddle; you will be too!
I actually just paid for a subscription to not only support Dr. Malone and his work but also specifically comment on this article. As someone who practices pediatric critical care for a living, I think we have to be extremely careful about the conclusions stated in this article. I pulled the study referenced. It was published by a group of Egyptian researchers in the Saudi Journal of Anesthesia and it studied 60 adults and compared inhaled budesonide to placebo. First of all, this is incredibly suspect because the standard of care for ARDS in adults and children is corticosteroids. See basically anything by Meduri in the past two decades. It is arguably unethical in 2025, or even 2017 when this was published, to compare budesonide to placebo. Furthermore, the average age in the study was 57 in both groups, with multiple etiologies for the ARDS rather than just purely sepsis, characteristics that makes this small study even less applicable to the child presented in this case. Furthermore, given the pathophysiology of ARDS it is at least plausible to hypothesize that distal delivery of budesonide would be impaired in this scenario. I don't know any of my colleagues in pediatric critical care who would consider budesonide as not only "standard of care" for pediatric ARDS but superior to systemic glucocorticoids.
Quotes like this:
"IV steroids suppress the immune system's ability to fight bacterial infections, and the father was aware that inhaled Budesonide is an effective, lower-risk treatment relative to IV steroids when treating ARDS."
and this:
"Instead of receiving clinically proven standard-of-care treatment with nebulized Budesonide according to the family’s wishes, the young girl was administered IV steroids and sedated with drugs that suppressed her respiratory drive and deep breathing, increasing the likelihood of partial collapse or closure of her lungs (a medical complication known as atelectasis), which reduces the ability of the lungs to bring oxygen to the blood, making it even harder for her to recover from her bacterial pneumonia and sepsis."
when using the above study as the evidence and ignoring decades of research on ARDS is not good science.
We who do pediatric critical care for a living know steroid medications affect the immune system's response in a multitude of ways, not just versus bacterial infections, and there are countless diseases and scenarios in critical care when we often need to utilize both antibacterial agents and corticosteroids simultaneously to save the lives of children. Even in children, ARDS has an exceptionally high mortality. I think it is at least premature and arguably incorrect to conclude that this poor girl's death was directly the result of intravenous glucocorticoids instead of inhaled glucocorticoids. It is tragic whenever one of our patients die, especially from a medical error, but I cannot agree with the statements of this article based on the study cited and my own personal knowledge and experience of doing pediatric critical care for nearly 20 years.
I support equipoise in medical research and support the work Dr. Malone and others have done over the years, but I had to respond to this article.
It is incidents like this that make me hesitant to go to any hospitals 🏥.
I live within walking distance of a hospital. I hope I never have to visit.
Going on frequent walks and bike rides has been good for me over these last years. But in doing so, I have had close encounters with unfriendlies, multiple charging dogs, and even a copperhead last year that I was on top of before I knew what it was. Then there's the risk of crashing into or over something on my bike, especially in dim light. I typically spent some time after each close call thinking about what level of pain and suffering I could tolerate before I submitted myself for hospital treatment.
I really don't like tattoos, but I thought about having "No vaccines authorized," perhaps adding some politely stated threat, tattooed to my chest. That way brainwashed hospital militants couldn't claim they didn't know.
Oh James, a copperhead! YIKES!!
My issue with vaccines is that I HATE NEEDLES 🪡. I'd be a terrible junkie.
If I were really honest, I don't like any kind of drugs.
If I find myself or anyone of my family members sick, I immediately conduct an internet search on HOME REMEDIES FOR THE AILMENT.
My belief is when I'm sick 😫 I will try God's medicine before man's medicine 💊 .
I’m with you - I was riding my bike to work predawn and was on top of an 8 foot alligator resting half on the nice warm bike path before I realized he wasn’t a black garbage bag! He hissed but did not chase😱
Whoa!
When my nephew went in to have his diseased kidneys removed at age 18, he wrote "NO, on his penis, so they would not mistake his penis for his kidneys.
His Mom donated one of her kidneys which also failed 10 years later. He has been on dialysis for almost 15 years, he is 42.
How sad! One of my grandsons was born with only one kidney!!
I pray that 🙏 his kidney stays healthy for his entire life!!!
You can get stencils for semi-permanent ink tattoos. The ink lasts a couple of weeks and is waterproof but not permanent. Ask Grok this question: "what companies will sell me semi-permanent tattoos where I can specify the text?".
Me too. God help me if I ever end up in one. I'd never go willingly.
I will go ONLY as a last resort!
It will never be my last resort for an illness. I'd rather die. Lol! If homeopathy, herbal or other natural cures fail, it'll be over for me.
Sounds like they are killing kids to "prove" how deadly measles are. Pure evil.
Karen, that's what they do.
Just like they would rather destroy our country than to let Trump succeed!?! YES, PURE EVIL 😈 😢!
Thank a liberal, democrat, progressive or rino. Our tax dollars at work to make themselves and their donors "richer", regardless of the death and destruction.
Dr. Paul Marik had a high & impressive degree of success treating sepsis with high dose intravenous vitamin C in the ICU where he formerly worked before the hospital put him through a sham peer review following his attempts to treat patients with covid with ivermectin. For the life of me, I do not understand why using IV vitamin C for sepsis has not been adopted by every hospital. But then again, all we have to do is remember how patients with covid were treated in our nation's hospitals, with remdesivir & ventilators. Then we can better understand why using IV vitamin C for sepsis is not being used.
Here is more about Dr. Marik's success with IV Vitamin C for sepsisInterview with Dr. Paul Marik on Vitamin C Protocol for Sepsis
DrPaulMarikVideo.jpg
WAVY TV 10
Dr. Paul Marik
As reported by Dr. Thomas Levy in his article Vitamin C and Sepsis: The Genie Is Now out of the Bottle, Dr. Paul Marik from the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia has developed and tested a new protocol in his intensive care unit (ICU) for patients diagnosed with advanced sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis is a body-wide infection that rapidly evolves to a state of low blood pressure (shock) and multi-organ failure due to both the infection itself and the poor blood flow secondary to the low blood pressure.
After the first life-saving success, his vitamin C / hydrocortisone / thiamine protocol was used to treat 47 consecutive septic patients over seven months in 2016. He compared the results he achieved with these patients in a retrospective manner with a control group of septic patients treated without his new protocol during the prior seven months, simply looking at the outcome of survival.
Dr. Marik's results were stunning. Only 4 of the 47 patients treated with the protocol did not survive (8.5%), while 19 of the 47 control patients (who did not receive this protocol) died (40.4%). None of the treated patients developed any organ failure, and all of the treated patients were able to be weaned off of vasopressors (blood pressure-supporting drugs) within roughly 24 hours of starting the protocol.
Dr. Marik also noted that all four of the treated patients who died did not die of sepsis-related shock, but from their underlying conditions.
Following this study, Dr. Marik increased the number of treated patients with severe sepsis and septic shock to 150, and only person one from that group died from the sepsis itself. Moving from a 30-50 percent mortality utilizing standard treatment protocols for sepsis to achieving a sepsis-related mortality of less than 1% using IV vitamin C / hydrocortosone / thiamine therapy in this small treatment group is nothing short of miraculous. His protocol has since been lab-tested and proven to work. It is now used regularly at Eastern Virginia Medical School to treat sepsis.
Dr. Marik describes his work and experience in this video.
Full interview with Dr. Paul Marik
WAVY TV 10
Dr. Paul Marik, a critical care doctor at EVMS, believes he has found the cure for sepsis, a common infection that gets into the blood and kills 1,000 people a day in the U.S. alone.
Thanks Debra, I saved that on my Mac as a separate file.
I have Mariks sepsis vit C protocol in my living will and advance directive to my family. I'm sure the hospital will refuse, but on the slim chance the state of medicine has improved by then. Tragic tragic, another unnecessary idiotic loss of a precious child.
That’s a great use for advanced directive! Do you have the dosage and frequency of usage?
Here’s a link to an interview with Dr. Marik about treating sepsis with Vitamin C, hydrocortisone, and thiamin.
https://www.faim.org/interview-with-dr-paul-marik-on-vitamin-c-protocol-for-sepsis
Thank-you for the link. I actually did see one interview but shall plan to watch this one too.
I have this in my notes on my phone for emergency use with the dosage of Vitamin C—I could not find the dosage for hydrocortisone and thiamin, nor the frequency of dosage. I also need to inform my family about it too.
I found the protocol that Dr. Marik used for his patients. The abbreviation QDS (which is the same as QID) means 4x/day. BD means 2x/day.Intervention
Vitamin C + Hydrocortisone + Thiamine in addition to standard treatment
1.5g QDS Vitamin C intravenously for 4 days or until ICU discharge
Hydrocortisone 50mg QDS intravenously for 7 days or until ICU discharge followed by a taper over 3 days
200mg thiamine BD for 4 days or until ICU discharge
I have also located PubMed articles where the amount of thiamine is 100mg, so it would be best to conduct further research on this.
I will try to find those dosages & add them to my previous comment if I am successful. It may take a while but I am a very determined person by nature, so will see what I can find.
Is it any wonder that trust in the "modern medicine" has plunged to 40%?
AMEN
Yeah, are the 40% totally oblivious to reality?
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the 60% are oblivious to the constructed reality perpetrated by Legacy Media and the dark forces in our own government.
I think those are essentially the same statements.
I wouldn't have thought it was even that high. Smh
"At the time of admission, the girl’s father specifically requested that she be treated with inhaled budesonide by nebulizer. The UMC Hospital staff refused this request, and appear to have treated her as if she was suffering from COVID rather than ARDS"
The question arises of whether the hospital was responding to the reimbursement incentives established by the government, rather than to the medically-appropriate treatment. Did the hospital receive more reimbursement for a Covid treatment than for a ARDS treatment? This is a first-hand account of a physician who personally observed medical personnel administer a treatment they knew would kill the patient because that treatment resulted in more reimbursement for the hospital. https://rumble.com/v5hb3xv-whistleblower-doctor-speaks-out-hospitals-are-mandating-murder.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mattyivanovic
Lord have mercy on us, for the evil, that is occurring in the medical professions.
I recently had the experience with needing care and had to see many doctors to get things sorted out. Mind you, part of my reason for care, is because of a DOCTOR messing up. My point, you would not believe the cold and callousness of ALL but one physician I meet with. My husband was shocked at how unfeeling and rude they were. It was not us. We were pleasant and listened respectfully. We were not difficult at all.
Something is VERY wrong in the Medical field. I think it started when we separated the patient from the doctor under Obama Care. Now 90% of doctors belong under a Corporate umbrella. Big business has intruded into the doctor/ patient relationship. If you want to see an independent doctor, you have to pay out of pocket.
I had an email interchange with my (previous) GP in 2020 about what the std procedure / treatment is for someone arriving at hospital with Covid. I won't paste it in here, too long, but basically HE pasted in from his computer the word for word protocol eliciting the CORPORATE protocol including all Pfizer stuff listed off etc.
The point being: ALL the hospitals and ALL their doctors who are employed by the hospital or a corporate Healthcare company that WORKS WITH the hospital have the same rigid protocol, much or mostly adjusted for FDA approval to cover their asses.
They don't care about the patients; they DO care about being sued and maximizing Medicare reimbursement. It appears the era is gone where you could expect your doctor to do what is BEST for YOU. It's what is best for them and theirs.
I'd like to read that.
OK, I made up a file:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/orffmbqi5wy3t125da1fe/Covid-Outpatient-Corp-protocol-guidelines.pdf?rlkey=ewf655rlzkzk4jngidxjsxq1l&st=yb6k0008&dl=0
Thanks!
Along with the government, insurance companies also mandate certain treatments (which are likely to conflict with the doctor's recommendation). Basically, they promote delay over expensive treatments: betting that the patient will die or get something worse before needing the original treatment. Statistically, they are guaranteed to gain from this strategy.
Thank you for your very informative comment.
The John Hopkins study nails it.I have that in my Bookmarks. Sorry for the family. Losing a child in this way is the worst. The child would have been better off with homeopathic meds from Washington Homeopathic. Unless you have a broken arm or neck, feed your immune system organic foods, lots of time outdoors, play in the dirt and avoid doctors and hospitals...Dr. Malone notwithstanding.
Gary Null wrote a book prior to 2016 explaining medicine is the third leading cause of death in the United States. I’ll say it again why are we ignoring C Diff that is killing at least 30,000 Americans each year a half million Americans, who survive! He also protested the Covid con.
I, for one, acutely remember that Hospitals sued for the right to kill their patients (suppress alternative medication or removal from the Hospital) under Covid. That memory causes me considerable trauma whenever I need to interact with the medical profession, especially hospitals.
I do NOT remember that.
Did they win?!
Several (at least) cases. Usually the hospitals won and the patients lost. Most of the losing patients died, often alone, in the mandated treatment protocol and denied alternative treatment protocols. The hospitals got paid $100,000 dollars or more per patient from the government for following the full Covid protocols to their endpoint.
sickening.
Thanks Gary.
This is so sad beyond words for me! I was not a pediatric nurse on purpose. I preferred adults. Last 15 years in Cardiovascular ICU. Better known as “Open Heart”. We cared. We cared!!!
A child! Oh how this hurts! I will be an advocate for my husband who can’t make decisions now. But a child!!! A father knew to request a specific medicine!! May this new administration step up and stop this.
I have no problem believing the statistic of medical mismanagement being the third leading cause of death in the US based on the many mistakes I've experienced in hospital, including 2 which meant I ended up in critical care on a ventilator without sedation for almost 24 hours. It was the surgery which broke the PTSD camel's back.
Thank you for sharing this with us. It helps to be aware and better able to reflect on the course of events.
It's of particular interest to me, having gone through measles, mono and very frequent alpha-strep infections in my youth.
Dr Makary, in his recent book and in his ETV TL interview brought up the fallabilties of medical care and need for humility.
These cases occurred in hospital settings. I've personally been reflecting on the potential fallibility of the setup that's been developed. At one time, attending physicians were involved and pretty competent in caring for their patients and attending to their care if hospitalized. Now, the primary care provider has become a referral service. Hospitals contract with or hire hospitalists. To me, this represents a threat to the contenuity of care and right decisions.
So, why did these two hospitals come up with fatal therapeutics? Were attending physicians intimately involved, would there have been better outcomes? Do ATs/PC MDs need more training to play a meaningful role?
I'm hoping the current thrust to improve our health will also note and look into these gaps in the system.
"It's of particular interest to me, having gone through measles, mono and very frequent alpha-strep infections in my youth."
For us old folks (not saying that you fit this category--I do), this was a normal childhood.
So true. I am with you and of too
If I have no say in the treatment I receive, that makes me a vassal or a prisoner.
Wow that is terrible. Last week I had back surgery. I was given the antibiotic Cefazolin because of having surgery. When I was talking to the anesthesiologist I ask if it was related to cephprozil . He said no it was a different line. When I had my last child I got serum sickness. I had an allergic reaction to the antibiotic they were giving me and started spiking fevers. After a week in the hospital they finally figured it out. In the mean time they were so worried that I had an infection.
Well guess what I started spiking fevers. It didn’t happen right away but started on the second day. What should have been an overnight stay turned into 5 days. Thankfully my Dr listened to me. He ran a bunch of blood tests plus gave me antihistamines. When the blood test white blood cell count was normal and my fever started to go down.
He sent me home. So here I am at home keeping my fever down by taking Celebrix, Tylenol and antihistimes. The surgery was a success he even found a calcified substance the size of a pea stuck on my nerve. My nerve was red. It is suppose to be white. It didn’t show up on the MRIs that I have had. Thank heavens he found it and took it out. . What if I was given more antibiotics. My fever would have ended up even higher. I’m so thank for my good Dr. and that he listened to me.
I feel so sad for the child’s parents whose Dr gave the wrong medicines.
Be proactive in your health. You have to know I am allergic to most antibiotics.
While studying continuing education for maintenance of my certification, I read an article recommending doctors should not interrupt a patient at presentation until 2 minutes, or the patient stops speaking. One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten.
Had 2 D.O.s tell me they were trained to....listen to the patient! Both did.
Have a D.O. now and think he's good. Perhaps the med ed field has evolved to the negative since Dr. Malone's school days. When I was a kid, seems like all of the docs were M.D.s. The holistic D.O. approach maybe detours around the big pharma/money trap?
Praying for you, Melanie. Our daughter has had two back surgeries, neither any fun, one through the back, the other through the tum. She's back in the saddle; you will be too!
Thank you
So in this second case the doctor didn’t even administer IV Antibiotics?
I actually just paid for a subscription to not only support Dr. Malone and his work but also specifically comment on this article. As someone who practices pediatric critical care for a living, I think we have to be extremely careful about the conclusions stated in this article. I pulled the study referenced. It was published by a group of Egyptian researchers in the Saudi Journal of Anesthesia and it studied 60 adults and compared inhaled budesonide to placebo. First of all, this is incredibly suspect because the standard of care for ARDS in adults and children is corticosteroids. See basically anything by Meduri in the past two decades. It is arguably unethical in 2025, or even 2017 when this was published, to compare budesonide to placebo. Furthermore, the average age in the study was 57 in both groups, with multiple etiologies for the ARDS rather than just purely sepsis, characteristics that makes this small study even less applicable to the child presented in this case. Furthermore, given the pathophysiology of ARDS it is at least plausible to hypothesize that distal delivery of budesonide would be impaired in this scenario. I don't know any of my colleagues in pediatric critical care who would consider budesonide as not only "standard of care" for pediatric ARDS but superior to systemic glucocorticoids.
Quotes like this:
"IV steroids suppress the immune system's ability to fight bacterial infections, and the father was aware that inhaled Budesonide is an effective, lower-risk treatment relative to IV steroids when treating ARDS."
and this:
"Instead of receiving clinically proven standard-of-care treatment with nebulized Budesonide according to the family’s wishes, the young girl was administered IV steroids and sedated with drugs that suppressed her respiratory drive and deep breathing, increasing the likelihood of partial collapse or closure of her lungs (a medical complication known as atelectasis), which reduces the ability of the lungs to bring oxygen to the blood, making it even harder for her to recover from her bacterial pneumonia and sepsis."
when using the above study as the evidence and ignoring decades of research on ARDS is not good science.
We who do pediatric critical care for a living know steroid medications affect the immune system's response in a multitude of ways, not just versus bacterial infections, and there are countless diseases and scenarios in critical care when we often need to utilize both antibacterial agents and corticosteroids simultaneously to save the lives of children. Even in children, ARDS has an exceptionally high mortality. I think it is at least premature and arguably incorrect to conclude that this poor girl's death was directly the result of intravenous glucocorticoids instead of inhaled glucocorticoids. It is tragic whenever one of our patients die, especially from a medical error, but I cannot agree with the statements of this article based on the study cited and my own personal knowledge and experience of doing pediatric critical care for nearly 20 years.
I support equipoise in medical research and support the work Dr. Malone and others have done over the years, but I had to respond to this article.
Well written reply. I appreciate the alternative perspective.
Here’s a link to an interview with Dr. Marik about treating sepsis with Vitsmin C, hydrocortisone, and thiamin.
https://www.faim.org/interview-with-dr-paul-marik-on-vitamin-c-protocol-for-sepsis