We Support Dr. Paul Marik & The Hippocratic Oath!

We hope the following can help us make a change: EVMS Dean of Medicine & Sentara Healthcare

We Support Dr. Paul Marik & The Hippocratic Oath!

This petition is about sending a message to Sentara Healthcare and EVMS that they must allow their medical professionals to honor their Hippocratic Oath: "to follow evidence-based medicine, and to treat patients the best they know how."

Paul Marik, MD, one of the most highly published critical care physicians in the world and the Director of the ICU at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, was recently told by Sentara Healthcare that he could no longer administer a range of highly effective COVID-19 treatments to critically ill patients—the same treatments he has successfully used to reduce COVID deaths in the ICU by as much as 50%. The result of the prohibition has been a sharp increase in patient mortality. Because Dr. Marik can no longer stand by while patients needlessly die without proper treatment, he has filed a lawsuit to allow him and his colleagues to administer the combination of FDA-approved drugs and other therapies that has saved thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the last 18 months. 

As Dr. Paul Marik said best - "Corporations and faceless bureaucrats should not be allowed to interfere with doctor-patient decisions, especially when it can result in harm or death."  Our most recent example of this massive overreach stemmed from Dr. Paul Marik's suit against Sentara Healthcare Systems after he was barred from administering safe and effective COVID-19 treatments.

“The Sentara Healthcare System’s prohibition of the MATH+ protocol is a threat to every doctor and every patient in the U.S.,” said Pierre Kory, president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). “We know the protocol is effective. Patients who could have been saved by MATH+ are dying because of the hospital’s baseless restriction. We will continue to see more deaths that could have been prevented until the court takes action and orders the hospital to reverse course."

The MATH+ protocol has been used all over the world to effectively treat patients with COVID-19. It is generally well-tolerated with no reports of adverse medical events. In its September 27 memo to employees, Sentara Healthcare System tried to justify prohibiting many of the medications in the MATH+ protocol by claiming it “is not supported in peer-reviewed, published RCTs,” (Randomized Controlled Trials). However, this claim is demonstrably false. Peer-reviewed published RCTs do support the use many of the medications Sentara has prohibited, including fluvoxamine and ivermectin.

“The FLCCC stands behind Paul 100%,” said Dr. Kory. “We take an oath as doctors to do no harm. I can’t think of a way of doing more harm to a patient than to not administer a treatment that you know can help them. No doctor should be forced to watch their patient die knowing that more could have been done to save them and that is exactly what Sentara is doing.”

This petition has been organized by members of the community that simply CARE deeply about doing the right thing - for our families, neighbors, country, and future generations. We are not affiliated with the FLCCC, however, we strongly support the work they are doing.  No matter the outcome of this particular suit - we want to send a united message to Sentara Healthcare & EVMS that the community does not support their reckless decision and interference with doctor-patient decisions - today, tomorrow, or ever! 

The FLCCC Alliance was organized in March 2020 by Dr. Paul Marik and several other highly published, world renowned Critical Care physician/scholars – with the academic support of allied physicians from around the world – to research and develop lifesaving protocols for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in all stages of illness. Their MATH+ Hospital Treatment Protocol – introduced in March 2020, has saved thousands of patients who were critically ill with COVID-19.  Their I-Mask+ Prevention and Early Outpatient Treatment Protocol, which has kept countless people out of the hospital is a potential solution to the global pandemic.  For more information: https://covid19criticalcare.com/

Please donate at https://frontlinecovid-19criticalcarealliance.salsalabs.org/donate/index.html

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