A Seussian Poem About The Plight Of A Vaccinated Man In Covid-"Morton Sues The Who"

I have read so many analyses and studies and articles describing the unprecedented changes within numerous institutions of society during the global Covid vaccine campaign but this Seussian poem absolutely outclasses them all. Plus, the timing of this poem couldn’t be better in regards to this insane U.S-WHO Pandemic Treaty. Now, although I love the humor and tone and how it ends, I have lived the reality of all that the Covid vaccines have spawned as I have a tele-health practice full of “Morton’s”, and I feel for them and strive for them on a daily basis. Just enjoy this amazing work of Jenna McCarthy who writes for the FLCCC Substack (as well as her own here ). Also, check out her highly accomplished bio at the end.
 “MORTON SUES THE WHO”
 By Jenna McCarthy
 The fifteenth of March seemed a nondescript day,
 although something was festering far, far away.
 It may or may not have escaped from a lab,
 (but make no mistake; it would end in a jab).
 Morton was working a job he could stand.
 “That’s odd,” he said plainly. “My throat feels like sand.”
 It was prickly and tickly and surely quite mild.
 “It  is  the cold season,” Morton said, and he smiled.
 Then he went back to doing the things you could do
 before things were decided for you by the WHO.
 But he made a mistake, and a grave one at that:
 He turned on the telly.  There was talk of a bat .
 Lots of them! Dead ones! For sale on the street!
 “They’re teeming with germs,” POTUS said in a tweet.
 “Oh dear,” muttered Morton, clutching his neck.
 All of a sudden, he was feeling a wreck.
 The telly-man said he should not go outside,
 he should not go to Target or get his hairs dyed.
 ‘Twould be good if he could shun the whole human race,
 and he abso-must-lutely start covering his face.
 He listened intently; did as he was told,
 because Morton very much wanted to grow old.
 That bat-bug was nasty, the whole world could see.
 It was hell-bent on wiping out humanity!
 So, Morton masked up and he cancelled his plans,
 and got extra obsessive about washing his hands.
 The telly-man told him that good things were coming;
 around the whole world, you could hear a faint humming.
 It rumbled and rattled, then turned to a roar;
 why hadn’t somebody done this before?
 They’d made a vaccine, he could get it for free!
 Now he would be protected from sure misery!
 What’s more, with a shot, he could unwrap his face.
 He could see other people, he could go anyplace!
 He could have Christmas dinner with Bob and his wife
 and visit with Grams without risking her life!
 So, he covered his mug and he rolled up his sleeve,
 for himself and his dog and his fat old Aunt Eve.
 “Getting a jab is the right thing to do,”
 he’d shout at his neighbors, his face turning blue.
 When Morton heard folks were refusing the shot,
 he basically told them he hoped they would rot.
 “You’re mean and you’re selfish and dumb as a stump
 and I know for a fact that you voted for Trump!”
 One day, the telly-man had some bad news.
 “One shot is as good as a badly-burnt fuse.
 Without two, you’re risky; a threat to mankind.
 We’ll give you a donut—or two—for your time!”
 The orders came down from a doctor named Ouchie;
 If anyone scorned his demands, he’d get grouchy.
 Again, Morton did what he needed to do,
 and his arm turned a perfectly purplish hue.
 “I got it, you guys! I got number two!”
 he boasted on Facebook. “And you all should, too!”
 The next day, a freakishly weird thing occurred:
 All Morton’s words began coming out slurred.
 His face was half frozen, half all-falling-down;
 his lips seemed to be stuck in a misshapen frown.
 I certainly wonder what could be the cause?
 he mused as he noticed the rash on his paws.
 And his head—it was splitting, a deafening pain.
 He felt quite as if he’d been hit by a train!
 But Morton had no time to dwell on his ills;
 the telly-man’s words had him covered in chills.
 “Two shots, don’t you know, are as useless as one.
 You must get a third; do not walk, soldiers. RUN!”
 Some people were saying the shots might be bad—
 might even be causing the symptoms he had!
 Nonsense like that really made Morton crabby.
 There was nothing but magic inside of that jabby!
 He was positive, sure of it, down to his bones,
 there was nothing in there messing with his hormones.
 Sure, young kids were suddenly dropping from strokes.
 But safe-and-effective! You can trust science, folks!
 What else could he do? There was no other answer.
 So what if it tripled his chances of cancer?
 Morton was part of the poked-and-proud crowd.
 Changing your mind simply wasn’t allowed.
 Somewhere around jab four or jab six,
 the telly-man dropped a new shit-ton of bricks.
 “Whether sixteen-times-poked or not prodded at all,
 you still need a mask to buy crap at the mall.
 And maybe this holiday folks shouldn’t gather;
 If you do, you could die. Is that what you’d rather?”
 For a second year running, Morton holidayed alone.
 He wished Merry Christmas to his family by phone.
 He woke up one morning not feeling too well,
 and realized he’d lost all his taste and his smell.
 He’d gotten the virus! The deadly disease!
 He crawled into bed with a feverish wheeze.
 From there Morton fell into a pit of despair.
 “I did all the things! This just isn’t fair!
 They told me those jabs would keep everyone well.
 And you, Dr. Ouchie? You can go straight to hell!”
 It’s true that poor Morton was falling apart;
 the slurring had turned to some pains in his heart.
 “It’s just inflammation, no biggie,” Doc said.
 “Now roll up your sleeve and lay down on this bed.
 It’s booster day, son. It won’t cost you a dime!
 It’s painless and safe, you’ll be done in no time.”
 “You know what?” cried Morton, his voice fiery mad.
 “I’m sick of this bullshit! The whole world’s gone mad!
 These vaccines of yours, they simply don’t work.
 I know ‘cuz I took them. I feel like a jerk!
 You bribed and you lied. It was all a big scam!
 You’ve raked in your billions. You don’t give a damn
 that people are dying and getting quite sick
 from your unconstitutionally mandated prick.
 I’m not taking another! You hear me? Not one!
 You couldn’t convince me if you pointed a gun
 at the tip of my temple and threatened to shoot it.
 You’re corrupt to the core and you cannot refute it!”
 Some folks down the street couldn’t miss Morton’s shouting.
 And most of them, frankly, had already been doubting
 the lies that the telly and Ouchie had told
 about a virus that for most was as mild as a cold.
 They rushed to high-five their courageous new leader,
 each promising to be Morton’s loudest cheerleader.
 They made signs and t-shirts: “I call my own shots!”
 “My body, my choice!” “They’re not ‘just’ blood clots!”
 Morton was happy but still suffering a lot
 of the horrible side-effects caused by that shot.
 He heard of a lawyer who was suing the WHO
 and he whipped off a two-worded letter: Me too!
 “Not safe, not effective,” the court finally said.
 “Quite frankly, you’re lucky that you aren’t dead!”
 Morton went home with a big pile of cash,
 and waited for the rest of the narrative to crash.
 It didn’t take long; that thing was quite frail.
 Best of all, Ouchie was going to jail!
 As the world bid adieu to the king of the liars,
 people danced in the streets and burned masks in great fires.
 The pandemic was over! They could live without fear!
 They could go to a bar! They could order a beer!
 They could do all the things that free people can do
 when they’re no longer being controlled by the WHO.

 Jenna McCarthy  is an internationally published writer, corporate speaker, screenwriter,  podcaster , two-time TED presenter, former radio personality and the author of more than twenty books for kids and adults. Her writing has appeared in over sixty magazines, on dozens of web sites, in several anthologies including the popular Chicken Soup series and most recently, as part of the esteemed  FLCCC Alliance Community . Prior to the pandemic, she considered herself a “sit-down comedian” and was prone to penning clever but whimsical books and essays and poking fun at marriage, modern life and anything else she found amusing. COVID, of course, changed all of that. Today, you’re likely to find Jenna mouthing off about tyrannical mandates, sweeping government corruption, and the perils of trusting Big pHarma. You can follow her  Substack  or check out her books and her blog at  www.jennamccarthy.com .

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Summary: I am proud to share the work of our newest FLCCC member Jenna McCarthy, a brilliant humorist and writer who absolutely nails the psycho and socio-pathology of the last 3 years in this Seussian poem.


The Premature Use Of Mechanical Ventilation In The First Wave Of The Covid Pandemic

I would say that in all the Covid “rabbit holes” I have gone down, each one then led to me entering an often public “science battle,” only some of which I have “won.” But I did win a few, none more successful than when I immediately shut down the shocking and rapidly spreading obsessive practice by ER and ICU doctors with putting Covid patients on ventilators “early.”
 As the Chief of the Critical Care Service and Medical Director of the Trauma and Life Support Center at the University of Wisconsin (we called the center “the TLC” for short but basically it was just the name for the main ICU at UW), I was one of the more experienced ICU clinicians. I was also known as a “vent geek.” In fact, one of the reasons why I became a pulmonary and critical care doc stemmed from an early fascination with operating mechanical ventilators. Subsequently, I have long taught taught the management of acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation to medical students, residents, and fellows. One of my core teaching points focused on identifying the optimal timing for the decision to transition a patient to a mechanical ventilator.
 Guidance on how to make the decision is simple conceptually but stressfully complex in practice. Basically, the timing of transition to mechanical ventilation is that you always wants to shoot for “not doing it too early” while also “not delaying until too late.” See how simple that is?
 The reason for this approach is that mechanical ventilators are “double edged swords” in that they can absolutely be life-saving when truly indicated (benefits outweigh risks), but they also can injure the lungs when used inexpertly or prematurely because by placing someone on a mechanical ventilator, this automatically worsens their prognosis as well as their time to recovery.
 The worsened prognosis stems from the deleterious effects of mechanical ventilation which often requires prolonged sedation and immobility which then can cause confusion, delirium, muscle atrophy, and weakness. All of which prolongs patients recovery and opens them up to developing complications (the shorter time you spend in an ICU the better you will do).
 So, the timing of the decision is critical – do it too early and you will be doing it unnecessarily in a proportion of cases, and doing it too late leads to a procedure with higher risks (the act of intubating someone in severe distress with low oxygen is much riskier than in a more stable patient). So knowing when to intervene when a patient’s respiratory status is deteriorating is a critical and challenging patient care issue.
 This challenge is best described by Professor Martin J. Tobin whom I call the “Godfather” of mechanical ventilation given that he is the author of the “Bible” of mechanical ventilation, a 3-inch wide textbook called “Principles of Mechanical Ventilation.” It is the only medical textbook that I have read completely… twice. See, I told you I was a vent geek. Fun fact: Professor Tobin was the expert witness in the George Floyd criminal case while I was the expert witness in the civil case). Anyway, Dr. Tobin invokes the analogy of the mythical Greek sea monsters of Homer called Psylla and Charbybdis when he discusses how to “set” the mechanical ventilator properly, but I think the analogy applies just as well in regards to the timing and initiation of mechanical ventilation.
 From Wikipedia:
 Scylla  and  Charybdis  were mythical  sea monsters  noted by  Homer ; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the  Strait of Messina  between  Sicily  and  Calabria , on the Italian mainland. Scylla was rationalized as a rock  shoal  (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Calabrian side of the strait and Charybdis was a  whirlpool  off the coast of Sicily. They were regarded as maritime hazards located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa. According to Homer's account,  Odysseus  was advised to pass by Scylla and lose only a few sailors, rather than risk the loss of his entire ship in the whirlpool. [3]
 Because of such stories, the bad result of having to navigate between the two hazards eventually entered proverbial use.
 Now, here are a couple of slides from one of my lectures on managing mechanical ventilators:

 Similarly, knowing when to intubate someone (i.e. the act of sedating and paralyzing someone in order to insert a breathing tube through the vocal cords and into the trachea is a procedure that presents a rare but catastrophic risk).
 Meaning that if you don’t establish a supportive airway quickly in some patients, a cardiac arrest can ensue. Fortunately, due to modern intubating techniques, equipment (video laryngoscopes), simulation training practices, and sedation and paralysis protocols, death is rare but still non-zero. Now, although death is quite rare, I have been involved in more stressful/scary intubation scenarios than I (or my patient) would have liked. “Managing a difficult airway” is the emergency of all emergencies because you have a patient still alive where you are responsible to prevent a cardiac arrest from deprivation of oxygen and/or excessive respiratory fatigue.
 Certainly cardiac arrest resuscitations are emergencies, but the heart is already stopped and CPR is relatively straightforward in my opinion.. so it is a little different from the perspective of a physician. In one situation you are trying to bring someone back from an arrest while in the other you are trying to prevent its occurrence.
 In every instance that I made a decision to put a patient on a ventilator, I would always reflect afterwards as to whether I felt I had done it too early or too late. Psylla or Charybdis. With rare exceptions, I generally felt like I did it too late (not late late, but generally beyond the time that it should have been clear that they were not going to be able to avoid the ventilator.)
 The reason for my delaying is that I tried to give every patient as much time and treatment as I could until it was clear they were not improving enough or quickly enough to avoid it. But I tried to give them every possible chance without endangering them. So I would consider myself a “late intubator” by practice. The comfort level with deciding on the appropriate time to intubate obviously varies across physicians as their risk tolerance (and their perceptions of the competing risks) varies according to their training, experience, and personality.
 I never forget one fellow I had when I was the Director of a Fellowship training Program back in New York who, during his three years of training had more than double the amount of intubations as any other fellow (although not the only reason, I did feel he was an “early intubator” and I tried to guide him to a more conservative approach before he graduated my program).
 However, as Covid patients began to be admitted to UW Hospital, suddenly a number of my colleagues were coming up to me and “suggesting” that we institute a “rule” for when we put someone on a ventilator and they were suggesting that we use the amount of oxygen they were requiring. I immediately thought this was insane but I also understood where it was coming from – the doctors were scared as they had not developed familiarity with the disease and this was compounded by rumors or reports of Covid patients who were supposedly coming in with low oxygen levels and who, despite oxygen supplementation and looking fairly stable, would suddenly “crash.”
 Although this suggestion well-intentioned as I believe the doctors were advocating for early intubation largely for the “safety” of the patient, I knew this would paradoxically spell disaster if the practice became standard. Plus, I had serious doubts a pneumonia/pneumonitis would cause “sudden crashes.”
 Now, one of the main purposes of ICU’s are for “close monitoring” of patients who have single or multiple organ failures. I have spent my career consulting on patients in various forms and degrees of respiratory distress, and all respiratory failure conditions have a general trajectory and/or response to certain medicines such that knowing when to intubate becomes easier to identify as you gain more experience.
 And I gained a ton of experience in my early career because when I got hired in my first job after fellowship training, my hospital was poorly staffed with pulmonologists and intensivists. In the first three years of my career I saw so many patients that my “billings” were causing concern by hospital leadership because I was seeing over 200% the amount of patients that an average full time intensivist would see in a year (which might suggest Medicare or Medicaid insurance fraud and thus trigger an audit – whatever). I worked 80-90 hours a week, plus I moonlighted overnight frequently so I gained a ton of experience (and expertise) fairly quickly.
 Anyway, I simply refused to believe that an inflamed lung would lead to precipitous crashes and I knew this both intuitively but I also knew it from talking to my colleagues on the front lines in New York City. So I argued with the “early intubation” crowd that, even though this was a novel disease it doesn’t change the foundational principal of when to institute mechanical ventilation.
 At the daily Covid briefing that I led each day at UW (attended in person and remotely by all residents, hospitalists, and intensivists in charge of taking care of COVID patients), I argued very strongly that we should avoid setting an arbitrary oxygen requirement limit for intubation. Some had suggested to intubate once a patient required more than 6 liters per minute of oxygen via nasal cannula while others were suggesting something higher.  I explained that the indication for the institution of mechanical ventilation should never be based on an oxygen level and instead must be almost solely based on an assessment of the patients “work of breathing” and their ability to sustain that work of breathing. This is where it gets a bit more complicated as a patient’s ability to sustain an elevated work of breathing is itself dependent on multiple factors such as their frailty (or conversely their strength), their mental status, and the cause of their respiratory failure (some conditions are more easily and quickly reversed than others). Here is a schematic that I would use to try to teach this concept to my students (made by my old colleague Nate Sandbo at UW.)

 So when you look at a patient who is struggling to breathe you have to ask yourself, can they sustain that amount of effort, for how long, and what is the underlying cause and is it rapidly reversible? There are certain conditions like acute pulmonary edema which can sometimes be turned around quite quickly with diuretics and blood pressure management and something called a non-invasive ventilator (called BPAP or CPAP machines) such that even when patients are in significant distress, you sometimes have enough time to “turn them around” before they “crash.” Other conditions like a worsening pneumonia with sepsis, there the patients generally need to be intubated once significant signs of respiratory distress are observed given that in such patients the “turnaround” is not so quick and there is a higher mortality associated.
 Anyway, my colleagues and trainees carefully listened and for maybe the first and last time in the pandemic, simply trusted my judgement and advice without too much “argument”. Whew. The idea of setting arbitrary oxygen limits as the trigger for intubation simply disappeared . I’m pretty damn proud of that because I know that was not the case around the country given that in many hospitals and academic medical centers they were using arbitrary limits to put patients on ventilators, and I believe this was one important factor which led to the widespread need for additional ICU rooms as well as ventilator shortages.
 I must say however, that I do not believe this “early intubation” practice lasted very long as doctors quickly gained more experience in managing Covid patients. They began to recognize that the pulmonary phase of Covid presented as a relatively unique form of respiratory failure in that patients would come in with often quite low blood oxygen levels yet would appear fairly comfortable in terms of their work of breathing, a condition doctors started calling “happy hypoxia.”
 Doctors then quickly got used to using high flow oxygen devices instead of mechanical ventilation. These devices, called “heated high flow nasal cannulas” (HHFNC) are a marvel of technology as you can deliver incredibly high flows of oxygen (up to 60 liters per minute) into their nose given that the oxygen is 100% humidified and heated. With normal low flow nasal cannulas that are not fully humidified or heated, if you try to increase the flow past 5 liters per minute, the patients cannot tolerate it due to discomfort and dryness. HHFNC became the workhorse of Covid and I believe many lives were saved by those devices. Fun fact: the devices were originally developed for use in racehorses (horses again?) and have only been applied to the care of patients in 1999, not falling into widespread use until after 2010.

 Next post I will go a little deeper into the reasons why Covid patients presented with this phenomenon of “Happy Hypoxia” (for all you respiratory failure geeks).
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Summary: The widespread and unprecedented initiation of mechanical ventilation early in the hospital course of Covid patients caused great harm. I am proud that I was able to block the practice at UW.


The Case Against The FDA For Their Illegal Anti-Ivermectin Actions

I am very happy about the coverage our case received today in the below Federalist article which can also be found here . I say “our” case because not only does it affect everyone, but also because the FLCCC, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and America’s Front-Line Doctors all submitted amicus briefs in support of the plaintiffs. The journalist totally understood how dangerous it is to concentrate so much power in a single Federal government agency (as well as the Federal government in general). The article was published under the Medical Ethics section of the paper and like I said, I am pretty proud of the quotes she decided to include. I think I will read it again I enjoyed it so much! Here it is:
 MEDICAL ETHICS
 Doctors Sue FDA For Prohibiting Ivermectin To Treat Covid-19
 BY: VICTORIA MARSHALL
 FEBRUARY 21, 2023
 4 MIN READ

 IMAGE CREDIT KLAUS NIELSEN/PEXELS/CROPPED
 A group of doctors is suing the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services for their various attempts at preventing ivermectin from being prescribed to treat Covid-19. Plaintiffs Robert L. Apter, Mary Talley Bowden, and Paul E. Marik argued the FDA tried to prohibit them from prescribing the drug, even though they have successfully used it in treating patients with the coronavirus.
 “The FDA generally cannot ban particular uses of human drugs once they are otherwise approved and admitted to the market, even if such use differs from the labeling — commonly referred to as ‘off-label’ use,” the lawsuit argues. “The FDA also cannot advise whether a patient should take an approved drug for a particular purpose.”
 But the FDA overstepped its authority by “ directing the public, including health professionals and patients, not to use ivermectin to treat COVID-19, even though the drug remains fully approved for human use,” the lawsuit continues. The aim of the suit is to set aside “any FDA actions that direct or opine on whether ivermectin is an appropriate treatment for COVID-19, declare such actions unlawful, and issue permanent injunctive relief enjoining the FDA from further engaging in such actions.”
 The plaintiffs originally filed their lawsuit in June 2022 — after the FDA and corporate media spun up the narrative that ivermectin is used as a cattle dewormer and that anyone who prescribed or took the drug as a Covid treatment was an anti-science rube — but a U.S. district court denied their claim. In February 2023, the doctors appealed their case to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Multiple groups have filed amicus briefs in support of the suit, including America’s Frontline Doctors and the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC).

 “This was a coordinated campaign amongst the agencies to limit the use of ivermectin,” Pierre Kory, president and chief medical officer of the FLCCC, told The Federalist. “Multiple actions taken by the CDC and FDA, as well as the media over a two-week period were triggered by the release of data showing that there were 90,000 prescriptions being filled for ivermectin by the middle of August.”
 Kory described the collusion among the FDA, CDC, and corporate media as a massive disinformation campaign.
 “For two weeks, all you heard was ‘horse dewormer,'” Kory said. “And the effects were massive. Hospitals started removing it from their formularies, pharmacists stopped filling. Doctors became scared to prescribe because they didn’t want to go against the agencies and take the risks on their licenses.”
 Even celebrities who took ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19, such as podcast host Joe Rogan and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers , were victims of a public smear campaign and derided for taking “horse dewormer,” despite both figures recovering quickly from their illness. As Kory explained, however, the massive propaganda campaign wasn’t really about ivermectin at all, but rather the use of repurposed or “off-label” drugs .
 “Repurposed drugs are the Achilles heel of the entire business model of the pharmaceutical industry,” Kory said. “And when you see our health agencies literally working in the service of the pharmaceutical industry by destroying the credibility of repurposed drugs, it’s terrifying. They’re not working according to the interests of patients or physicians but the pharmaceutical companies.”
 By prohibiting the use of “off-label” drugs to treat Covid, public health officials and federal bureaucrats put the interests of Big Pharma over patients. As such, physicians were scared to prescribe off-label drugs, a common practice within the medical community, for fear of losing their licenses. How many needless Covid deaths or severe infections might have been prevented if not for this false public intimidation campaign?
 *Victoria Marshall is a staff writer at The Federalist. Her writing has been featured in the New York Post, National Review, and Townhall. She graduated from Hillsdale College in May 2021 with a major in politics and a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @vemrshll.

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 P.P.P.S. I am writing a book about what I have personally witnessed and learned during Pharma’s historic Disinformation war on ivermectin.  Pre-order here for:

Summary: The case brought by Drs. Paul Marik, Mary Bowden, and Robert Apter is now at the Court of Appeals. I was interviewed for this awesome Federalist article today where I landed some powerful blows.


We All Got Fooled Again

Although I have been describing myself of late as an "expert" in spotting Covid Disinformation and propaganda tactics, this week I discovered that I, along with many others, got fooled by the above Newsweek article , naively thinking it as representative of the genuine reflecting of a bold medical student.
 After reading the below analysis of that article by A Midwestern Doctor on their “ Forgotten Side of Medicine ” Substack, I am both pleased and embarrassed to discover that I got “schooled.” You would think that I would no longer need such instruction after three years of being exposed to unending media propaganda around almost all Covid scientific topics and policies. But alas, I discovered that I still have more to learn about spotting propaganda (i.e. a story or message to get you to think or act in a certain way).
 A Midwestern Doctor saw the article for exactly what is was - yet another lame attempt at a "plea for amnesty" by those in power. Recall that their first attempt at trying to absolve themselves of their disastrous and damaging Covid policies failed spectacularly (you know, the one written by Emily Oster in the Atlantic ).
 In my defense, I read the above article only once and very quickly before I decided to immediately tweet it out in a somewhat positive way (like many others). The decision to use a medical student as an author of this “Oster 2.0” article was ingenious and was one way in which I got suckered by it. The other reason is that, the tactics used in the article were much more nuanced than in Oster’s piece and thus required a close reading, especially to the actual words/language used and the intent behind their use.
 I also think I got fooled by it because I sincerely (and naively) have been feeling like the “truth,” (or if you prefer, the “lies”) especially in regards to vaccines, are now being so widely exposed at an astonishing rate from so many varied data sources. This has resulted in numerous countries (but not enough) now severely limiting their use (not in the United States of Pharma but still).
 Further, vaccine uptake has plummeted across the country and world, and court decisions have been striking down mandates (largely based on an assessment of the scientific data). Twitter is more openly (but imperfectly) allowing the sharing of numerous previously censored scientific viewpoints. I was interpreting all these changes as finally reflecting a transition I mistakenly believed was starting to happen every single day over the past two years. Despite being consistently proven wrong upon awakening the next day to the newest absurdity in non-scientific policies and supportive media lies, this time, I really really thought it was starting to happen no?
 What I have been hoping for is that the expert and deeply researched “private knowledge” held by the huge network of independant Covid researchers and scientists that I am proudly a part of… would finally make the transition to being held as “common knowledge.” I thus over enthusiastically interpreted that article as emblematic of the beginning of a positive change in national awareness and potentially policy (ouch). Such a bold article calling out so many mistakes, and in a national magazine! Wow. Finally!
 If you are like me and thought Newsweek’s decision to publish an article like that was a genuine reflection of changing sentiment among not only the scientific community but also political and industry leadership, then please read the below essay. It wasn’t. At all. We are still getting played, but, at the same time, I think the decision to publish that article shows they are getting desperate. Enjoy (and please subscribe to “A Midwestern Doctor’s” Substack here ).

 The Forgotten Side of Medicine
 Dissecting The New Plea for COVID Amnesty

 Many of you may remember Emily Oster’s disingenuous plea for amnesty in The Atlantic. The responses to it were almost all “How about [insert your preferred profanity].” My favorite response was someone choosing to pay to fly this over her house after…
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Summary: I discovered that I, like so many of us, failed to see Newsweek's "Scientific Community Apology" article published this week for exactly what is was - pure propaganda. Again. They just won't stop.


5 Covid Mistakes Biden's New Chief of Staff Must Admit

Every day I am subjected to a new record in absurdity which is then soon followed by one far surpassing the previous.
 Check out the latest: Biden’s previous Covid Czar was promoted to the position of Biden’s new Chief of Staff. Wait, what? One of the leaders of what is one of the demonstrably worst national public health responses to Covid in the world. A guy responsible for policies that caused hundreds of thousands of needless deaths due to the suppression of early treatment while forcing and promoting toxic, ineffective, and lethal vaccines at the expense of people’s livelihoods and education. And he gets a promotion. What will tomorrow bring? Will it be Alfred Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, getting nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine? Aye aye aye.
 Well, at least there are some somewhat good news of late to offset this idiocy. The Biden administration has announced it will finally end the Covid-19 public health emergency—in May! The order been renewed every 90 days since January 2020, even as the disease waned and life in most places returned to normal. But the Federal government needs more time to unwind the mess it created. And so for another four months, it will be business as usual for pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, pharmacies, and everyone else gaming the health system to keep the emergency funds rolling in.
 So, I suppose there are good news and bad news. I wonder if this means they will start letting foreign visitors in without a “Covid vaccine” so some of my favorite international Covid truth warriors (like Jessica Rose!) can come visit to help us counter the incessant Disinformation tactics by Big Pharma (and others).
 Anyway, of the innumerable failed and damaging policies enacted by our captured Federal government, I focused on these 5 in the Op-Ed (feel free to make fun of me for the ones I did not include, but my defense will be that there are tight word limits on Op-Ed’s).
 Admit promises about experimental mRNA vaccines fell short (understatement of the year).

 Acknowledge that re-purposed generic drugs should play a role in the ongoing fight against COVID (yeah right, not in the United States of Pharma but hey, don’t blame me for trying).

 Scrap plans for annual COVID-19 vaccinations (if they do go through with this, that will set the newest record for absurdity, which, like I said above, will not hold top spot for very long).

 Immediately remove all pandemic mandates (there are so many hills to die on in fighting against the Covid fraud and corruption, but, as an American who is deeply committed to medical ethics, this is the first one).

 Concede that vaccine injuries are real, and call off the merchants of doubt. The propaganda narrative that they trial-ballooned in the past week, you know, the one where they tried to portray the vaccine injured as “faking it” (which literally focused on one of my patients), is just the latest salvo that sent me over the edge.

 The House Republican majority has oversight responsibilities and subpoena authority. The Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled its first hearing for early February. If the executive branch is unwilling to admit past mistakes, Congress should force its hand.
 You can read the whole piece on foxnews.com , but I have also included it below:

 President Joe Biden’s elevation of Jeff Zients, best known as his Coronavirus Response Coordinator, to White House chief of staff is the latest sign of the administration standing by its stewardship of the pandemic. Rather than a comeuppance, it’s more of the same defiance and obstinance that have become hallmarks of their "medical experts."
 The ringleader of Biden’s pandemic response deserves an expulsion from government, not a promotion. If Zients has any hope of rebuilding trust with Americans, he needs to acknowledge past mistakes. Here are five places to start.
 First, admit promises about experimental mRNA vaccines fell short.
 As Americans were learning how to pronounce "omicron" in December 2021, Zients delivered a dire warning from the White House briefing room: "For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm."
 Set aside how such an incendiary claim breaks Biden’s inaugural pledge to "stop the shouting and lower the temperature." The math doesn’t add up. Since Zients’ declaration, the percentage of COVID fatalities among the vaccinated in the U.S has steadily climbed – from 23 percent in September 2021 to 42 percent in January and February 2022 to a clear majority (58 percent) by August 2022, according to analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. In a more recent report from the health department of New South Wales, Australia which covered the last two weeks of December 2022, of the 1,415 hospitalized patients with known vaccination status, none were unvaccinated. The numbers have changed, but the condescension from the White House has never wavered.
 BIDEN TELLS CONGRESS HE'LL END COVID-19 EMERGENCIES ON MAY 11

 Second, acknowledge that re-purposed generic drugs should play a role in the ongoing fight against COVID.
 Since the pandemic’s earliest days, the Front-Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), the non-profit medical organization that I lead, has been gathering and presenting clinical evidence for alternative treatments. Summary analyses called "meta-analyses" which combine data from many individual studies have long been considered the strongest form of medical evidence over that of single or even a handful of trials. Numerous meta-analyses along with firsthand reports from clinicians around the world have found that safe, affordable medicines like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and fluvoxamine (among others) reduce COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
 Government agencies have ignored these facts and even mocked them. Doctors who discuss their professional experience helping COVID patients with effective treatments are accused of peddling "misinformation" and threatened by the likes of the American Board of Internal Medicine – as I have been.

 Jeff Zients, the then White House Covid-19 response czar, speaks during a press briefing at the White House where he spoke about a pause in issuing the Johnson & Johnson Janssen Covid-19 vaccine on April 13, 2021, in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
 Third, scrap plans for annual COVID-19 vaccinations.
 Last week, the FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products committee voted unanimously to retire Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s original COVID-19 vaccines and replace them with an annual booster of the bivalent shots, billed to specifically protect against the Omicron variant. Setting aside questions about efficacy, shocking new video footage showed a Pfizer executive discussing his company’s plans to mutate future strains of COVID that would require a new vaccine.
 Pfizer can deny the claims in the video all they want, but the numbers don’t lie. Analysts expect the company’s 2023 revenue to drop 26 percent as demand for the vaccine wanes. That’s just one year after projecting $100 billion of revenue fueled by the American taxpayer. Clearly, a pandemic in perpetuity boosts its bottom line.

 Fourth, immediately remove all pandemic mandates.
 This weekend, Novak Djokovic, the world’s top ranked tennis player, won his 10th Australian Open, tying Rafael Nadal for the all-time lead of 22 Grand Slam championships. Yet questions remain about his ability to participate in upcoming American tournaments due to vaccine requirements for foreigners that will remain in place until at least April 10. An organizer of one of the upcoming tournaments dubbed the whole situation a "disgrace" – he’s right.
 This problem extends beyond sports. Health care workers who were fired for exercising medical freedom should be re-hired, and military service members who lost recruitment bonuses and salary should be made whole.
 Finally, concede that vaccine injuries are real, and call off the merchants of doubt.
 It’s bad enough the administration has foregone regulatory safeguards to push an experimental vaccine on hundreds of millions of Americans. Now its allies are mocking those suffering from debilitating side effects with a coordinated smear campaign, despite the fact that the CDC’s own V-safe database found that eight percent of patients were injured badly enough to require medical care. Despite this, some of these despicable attacks even come with a derisive "#thankspfizer."

 I care for many people battling vaccine injuries, like Angelia Desselle. No one should be forced to endure the suffering she and so many others have gone through, only to become targets of media derision.
 It is unlikely that Jeff Zients will pay attention to these offerings. But there’s also a new sheriff in town. The House Republican majority has oversight responsibilities and subpoena authority. The Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled its first hearing for early February. If the executive branch is unwilling to admit past mistakes, Congress should force its hand.
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 Pierre Kory, M.D., is president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.

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Summary: Just published another Op-Ed on FoxNews.com, the 3rd most visited news site in the world. I laid out just 5 of the Covid mistakes made by our Federal government that they should own, but likely won't.


The Republican House Must Investigate the Government’s War on Doctors

Whenever I re-publish my newspaper op-eds on this Substack, I tend to introduce them with some comments on “how I really feel,” instead of the more staid language and arguments used in those pieces. In this one, I essentially argued that the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government should be ground zero for investigating how the administration is using COVID-19 to wage war on doctors who won’t follow its orthodoxy.
 Although I am not under the delusion that it’s actions will actually result in meaningful changes in public health policy, I felt I should provide some guidance to them in the support we doctors (and thus patients) really need. I highlighted some of the most harmful actions taken to silence and suppress physicians, which would have been absolutely unthinkable a few years ago but now are becoming the norm, what with Clownifornia’s new bill (which just got slapped with an injunction!) threatening doctors livelihoods if their speech does not support the dominant consensus, er, I mean “narrative”
 I am doing this while every week new data piles up showing the immense toxicity and lethality and negative effectiveness of the latest vaccines. Yet the Biden administration and its allies in media and medicine only push them harder, inventing batshit crazy narratives to explain their shortcomings. Imagine their gratitude learning about this Canadian physician’s discovery of a “stroke season” !
 By now we all understand that these profoundly anti-scientific, unethical positions are driven by an unholy and terrifying alliance of government, the pharmaceutical industry, and media. The evidence is damning in how they have co-opted public health institutions to suppress dissent so they can continue raking in astronomical profits. The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), a nonprofit organization that certifies physicians’ medical licenses, is chief among the once-trusted institutions that has bent the knee.
 Last year, the ABIM accused myself, Paul Marik, and Peter McCullough of spreading “misinformation” and threatened our ability to practice medicine, ignoring the ever-widening disconnect between the Biden administration’s statements and the reality on the ground.
 A reality which literally amounts to a humanitarian catastrophe with young people dropping dead “unexpectedly” and the best analyses estimat ing over 500,00 having died directly from the vaccine in the U.S alone with further millions disabled . And we wonder why restaurants often cannot open or s ki mountains can only run half their lifts on even the most bluebird of powder days (of course there are multiple factors leading to this reality, but the vaccine lethality is the only “never mentioned” one.
 As an aside, although it is devastating to do so, I think that everyone should read Mark Crispin Miller’s Substack and his daily series entitled “In Memory of Those Who Died Suddenly.” He compiles and presents media reports of human deaths at a frequency and regularity that is difficult to behold (especially for an expert in sudden cardiac death, a subject I studied deeply during my years as an expert in therapeutic hypothermia in post-arrest patients, an event which was distinctly rare in active healthy people outdoors prior to the vaccination campaign).
 I feel responsible to read/witness what he is presenting to the world. I am tired of dueling and conflicting medical papers and agency data, cherry picked or manipulated to support the dominant delusion that these vaccines are benign. When you read Mark’s Substack, you are faced daily with reading about the untimely and sudden ends to the lives of real people, every day, around the world, amidst this terror of a global vaccination campaign. They are dying “unexpectedly” at enormous rates and falling ill with cancer at enormous rates . He seems to be the only one who is presenting these data in such a human, highly personal way by compiling individual media stories of the sudden ending of human lives at ever younger ages with an unimaginable regularity. Unfortunately, as per the most visited English language media outlet in the world, doctors don’t know why yet and the vaccines are not even mentioned as a possibility in this clown article published in the Daily Mail .
 Unrelenting reports of people in largely perfect health, out in society doing routine or pleasurable activities and then dropping dead or unconscious, often being captured on television studio sets, auditorium stages, subway platforms, street surveillance cameras, playgrounds, sporting events, athletic fields, and even broadcaster desks. To date, I am not aware of a single newspaper report (even from tiny local papers) which openly implicates the vaccine as a even a possible cause let alone an almost certain one. An unimaginably dystopian nightmare all around us… while society seemingly carries on as normal.
 Back to the ABIM: despite its status as a private organization with no statutory authority (insane right?), the ABIM has morphed into an “enforcement” arm of the government, wielding the ability to control certification and the livelihood of doctors, who are subject to career-ending threats for trying to alert the public to all the death and disability resulting from the vaccine campaign. Paul and I are fighting those charges tooth and nail. I am looking forward to soon sharing on this Substack the brilliant response we worked on with our assassin of an FLCCC lawyer, Alan Dumhof. I predict a clown world of a response and will share with you as soon as we get it.
 Anyway, here is my Op-Ed:
 Two years of one-party rule in Washington are over, and the new Republican House majority must now restore balance through vigorous oversight. The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is expected to focus on allegations of collusion between social media companies and the Biden administration.
 But it should expand its focus to include the government’s use of COVID to wage war against doctors — which continues to this day.
 The suppression of doctors’ freedom to advise and treat patients began early in the pandemic. Promising alternative courses of treatment, such as generic drugs like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, were shouted down by false news narratives.
 Media companies took their cues from public health agencies, which exaggerated concerns over people using medicines to treat COVID in ways that were not intended and against medical advice. Positive clinical data was ignored.
 The next major front in the war on doctors opened up with the vaccine rollout. President Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public officials promised these novel, rushed vaccines would prevent illness and even transmission.
 Biden’s declaration that, “If you get vaccinated, you won’t get COVID” has now been exposed as a lie, but it’s crucial to understand how it came to this.
 In the past, broad skepticism would have greeted plans to mass distribute a “safe and effective” vaccine that was developed and approved in just 12 months.
 And society would have flatly rejected government mandates that pushed people to get vaccinated or risk losing their jobs and becoming social outcasts. Science and medicine, practiced correctly, should challenge the powers that be, not blindly follow them.
 But in our ongoing ordeal, no skepticism has been allowed, no discussion, no options. Those who raised questions or suggested different approaches were smeared as “deniers” or even worse, “anti-vaxxers.”
 Even as the public learned more about the virus’s actual threat, the vaccines’ disappointing performance, and the tragic reality of vaccine injuries which began occurring at an unprecedented scale, the political imperative from Biden and Fauci never wavered.
 They continued to preach a single-minded focus on the experimental vaccines. More and more vaccine products were rushed through Emergency Use Authorizations from the Food and Drug Administration, resulting in astronomical profits for their manufacturers.
 This unholy alliance of government, the pharmaceutical industry and media deprived the public of full and fair advice from the medical community. The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), a nonprofit organization that certifies physicians’ medical licenses, has issued letters to me and my colleagues threatening our ability to practice medicine.
 They accused us of spreading “misinformation” — ignoring the huge disconnect between the government’s statements and the medical reality on the ground. Despite their status as a private organization with no statutory authority, the ABIM has morphed into the “enforcement” arm of the government, wielding the ability to control certification and the livelihood of doctors, who are subject to career-ending threats for veering from the government’s narrow and singular approach.
 And this month, California’s new law empowering state agencies to disbar medical professionals who deviate from the party line has taken effect. Gov. Gavin Newsom recently called California the “True Freedom State.” The scores of its residents—and its doctors—fleeing for Florida and Texas know better.
 A “one-size fits all” approach to vaccines, or to any other health issue, is almost never warranted. Here, proponents of vaccine (and of government and big-tech coercion and censorship) flatly refuse to consider patient factors, such as age, medical history, and overall health, to determine who needs what treatment.
 By virtue of their professional training, doctors must advise patients on available treatments and known risks of any treatment or procedure. By threatening doctors who might provide information different than their preferred worldview, ABIM is disrupting the doctor-patient relationship.
 When allowed to practice their craft freely, physicians can prevent societal disaster by focusing on individual patients, informed by clinical experience.
 Groups like the ABIM, and public medical officials like Fauci, should support and encourage evidence-based debate and patient-centered care.
 Instead, they have suppressed both that debate and treatment approach by persecuting its proponents. This campaign must be stopped, its origins and evolution must be thoroughly documented, and it must never be allowed to recur. Physician autonomy must be restored lest all patients suffer.
 Oversight is a core congressional function, and it’s particularly important when the government is under divided party control.
 The new Select Subcommittee has a long to-do list, but the people deserve a thorough accounting of the ongoing war on doctors.
 Pierre Kory is President and Chief Medical Officer for the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.

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Summary: I published an Op-Ed in the Daily Caller this week that I am quite proud of. As usual with my media Op-Eds, I had professional help... and it shows.


Ivermectin Case To Be Heard By The Wisconsin Supreme Court Today

The below overview of the case was written by Scott Schara, the father of now deceased Grace Schara, whose tragic hospital demise during Covid came to national attention and which inspired Scott to create the organization Our Amazing Grace Shines On. The FLCCC and the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons both submitted amicus briefs to the Supreme court in support of the plaintiff’s arguments.

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 John Zingsheim walked into a hospital in the Aurora Health Care system, tested positive for COVID and, within minutes, the doctor told him he was going to die.  The doctor immediately placed him on a protocol that included Remdesivir and Baricitinib. John's Power of Attorney (POA) and nephew, Allen Gahl, demanded he be taken off these drugs. John requested Ivermectin and high dose IV Vitamin C, but the hospital refused and administered Remdesivir again.
 John had sepsis multiple times, kidney failure that required dialysis, and was dying on the ventilator.  The hospice team encouraged his family to "pull the plug" because there was nothing more they could do. His family refused to give up and sought help from the legal system to try and obtain Ivermectin.
 Aurora continued to refuse and argued that when a medical treatment falls beneath their standard of care for patient safety, then the court had no right to intervene for the patient.
 Wisconsin’s own FLCCC (Frontline Covid Critical Care) Co-founder Dr. Pierre Kory, world-renowned expert in Ivermectin, was present and ready to testify on John’s behalf but the court never called on him to do so. The Waukesha Circuit Court determined that the patient/family’s request for Ivermectin should be honored and that, if necessary, a doctor outside the medical system could administer the Ivermectin to him.
 The family signed away any liability to the hospital for treatment with Ivermectin, and the outside doctor was made ready. An Appellate Court paused the order, and they ruled that the Waukesha Circuit court erred in their decision.  John was blocked from receiving ivermectin.
 Through a series of miraculous events, John was secretly given Ivermectin and survived the NIH protocol despite spending more 100 days of his ten months in the hospital on a ventilator.
 Today John is breathing on his own with a little help from supplemental oxygen and his kidneys both healed and are fully functional.
 John's case, Allen Gahl v Aurora Health Care Inc, is now coming before the WI Supreme Court and Attorney Karen Mueller will present oral arguments this Tuesday, January 17th.
 You can watch it for free on livestream at https://wiseye.org/
 This case would set precedent for Wisconsin and across the country so TUNE IN and send prayers to John, his family and everyone involved in this case.
 See court documents here: www.amoscenterforjustice.org
 Thanks for doing your part to stop this tyranny.
 Grace’s Dad
 Scott Schara, President
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Summary: A potential precedent-setting case may allow hospitalized patients to request and consent to specific medical treatments, even over the objection of doctors and hospitals.


Establishing "Standards of Care" in Medicine - Part 2

In Part 1 , I recounted my somewhat prolonged, arduous path into medical school and then through residency and fellowship training. In this post, I continue to glowingly :) trace my career to the present.

 Anyway, after I completed my training, I took a position as a clinician-educator at the teaching hospital where I had done my subspecialty fellowship training in (Beth Israel Medical Center in lower Manhattan). It is always an honor when those who trained you.. end up hiring you as a partner. Picture of me when I joined the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division in 2008 :). Little slimmer it looks like.

 Anyway, fast forwarding, the proudest achievements in my career as a “clinician-educator” was becoming one of the youngest Program Directors (PD) of a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Training Program in the country (I took over in my 4th year as an Attending (requirements are that you need at least 5 years for such positions). Although I was officially an “Associate” PD, I was literally the PD. Next were the winning of Departmental Teaching Awards at every academic medical center I worked for. However, what I am most proud of was helping pioneer two different, then novel fields of my specialty - the first was on the study and application of therapeutic hypothermia in post cardiac arrest patients and the other was in creating and teaching a novel diagnostic approach to critical illness using “point-of-care ultrasonography.”
 My interest in therapeutic hypothermia developed early on, and stemmed from a case of a patient who had suffered cardiac arrest on one of the hospital wards. We successfully resuscitated and brought him back to the ICU but, as is typical, he remained in a dense coma with little detectable brain function. The downtime of the arrest was almost 30 minutes which is not good prognostically. My mentor, Paul Mayo, told me that we should “cool” him (to cool his brain). I asked why and he replied that he had seen some papers on it and that the Europeans were starting to do this to comatose post-arrest patients. So we cooled him, and three days later… he regained full consciousness. Moved by this clinical experience, I dove in and started researching everything that was known about the therapy.
 This was actually when I was still a fellow still in training, and represents the first clinical initiative that I ever led. I created and instituted my hospitals first therapeutic hypothermia protocol and, as a result, I quickly became a regional and national expert in the therapy and started giving lectures everywhere. I was one of the expert panel members that helped develop NYC’s “Project Hypothermia,” where, when we started, my hospital was the only one out of the 46 NYC area hospitals that had a hypothermia protocol. Within a few years such protocols had been implemented at every NYC hospital and all ambulances and paramedics were equipped and trained to start cooling post-cardiac arrest patients. I did research studies trying to find which patients benefitted most or not at all, and on whether the speed or depth of cooling mattered etc (I was the first to do a controlled study on in-hospital cardiac arrest patients and I also published on rapidity of cooling using numerous techniques).

 In the beginning, me and Paul Mayo thought that the faster we got patients temperatures down, better outcomes would result (although we knew it was safe, we later found out this was not true). But, at the time, thinking speed was critical to their survival, we adopted an aggressive, rapid-cooling protocol which we “borrowed” from techniques used to cool Muslim pilgrims suffering heat stroke during their annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
 The pilgrims would be whisked into treatment units where they were disrobed, placed into hammocks, and exposed to high speed fans while being sprayed with warm water. Why warm water? Well, if you cover them with warm water under high speed fanning the water evaporates faster and this evaporative process sucks heat from the body much faster than if you used cold water (cold water causes the surface blood vessels to constrict, thus paradoxically trapping heat).
 Paul had used the same technique to cool some construction worker that had suffered severe heat stroke the summer before, so we employed the same method to cool our cardiac arrest patients. Anytime we admitted a post-cardiac arrest patient, my entire ICU team would wheel in this huge industrial fan which we placed at the foot of the bed, then we would strip the patient naked and doctors would dip towels in lukewarm water and “paint” the patient with the wet towels under a super loud fan which emitted a terrific racket. At the same time, we would cool bags of saline fluids and infuse them under pressure through large IV catheters in the neck or groin, sometimes getting 2 liters of iced saline into them in ten minutes using a pressure bag. Lastly, we would have two doctors do iced gastric lavages by placing a nasogastric tube and, using a comically large syringe, they would push iced water down the tube into the stomach. We would install 500ml and then suck it out, then refill with iced saline, repeat. Using this “combination therapy” protocol, we achieved some of the fastest decreases in body temperature of any method known. It was wild. One problem is that it created a colossal mess with puddles of water all around the bed and folks slipping etc.
 The sloppiness of the method was becoming a problem, plus it was massively labor intensive while trying to care for 16-20 critically ill patients a day. As the leader of the hypothermia program, my hospital asked me to choose a cooling device to purchase for use in patients that was a little less chaotic, labor intensive, and messy. There were a number of cooling devices on the market.. and I chose the one that was fastest. This was the device, called the “Thermosuit” which was literally an inflatable bathtub.

 Basically, you unrolled this sheet of plastic on the bed, placed the patient in the middle, and then you inflated it. Once the bathtub was fully inflated, you put a plastic cover over them, attached the tub via hoses to a large reservoir of iced water, and a pump would propel the ice water into the bathtub via tiny holes in the top sheet which sprayed the entire body almost like a fine sprinkler.

 Problem: it was glitchy. We would have different “failures” in the process every few times we used it. My fellows were starting to complain when they had to cool a patient because it was rarely a turn-key process. And then one day an incident occurred after which we never used it again. A code brown (which is different than a code blue as you will learn). And it was a big code brown. If you don’t know what I am talking about, basically, while cooling this one comatose patient, their physiologic response was to have a massive, very watery bowel movement. In the tub. Then, while trying to transfer the patient out of the tub, apparently the tub partly deflated and a river of brown spilled over the sides of the bed and all over the floor (and some of the staff). I was not there at the time.. but the fellow and nurses that were on that night never let me forget about it.
 Fun Fact: Joe Varon, one of the other founders of the FLCCC, was an even earlier “hypothermiac” in our specialty. I didn’t know him then, but I came across this picture early on in my career and I used to have a slide with it in my lectures. It was of Joe. Check out his method. Not as elegant as mine for sure. Go FLCCC!

 After the infamous “code brown” incident, I very quickly petitioned for purchase of a more practical, easy to use device (plus by this time, I had learned that speed of cooling was less important than duration). So we very quickly purchased cooling pads like the ones below, never again using the Thermosuit. See? We evolve with data and clinical experience, setting new “standards of care” along the way :).

 Ultimately, as more and more studies were done, my interests and expertise in therapeutic hypothermia waned as I discovered that it was largely beneficial mostly in witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients of primary cardiac causes and not in my general ICU patients. Then studies showed that cooling such patients was less important than simply preventing rises in temperature, so now cooling approaches are more reactive than pro-active and essentially target normothermia. However, it was a great early experience in my career.

 The next major contribution of my career was when I became one of the world experts that helped pioneer the development and teaching of “point-of-care ultrasonography” (POCUS). POCUS is the use of ultrasound by physicians at the bedside (at the “point-of-care”) to image internal organs in real time so as to make rapid, accurate, and often life-saving diagnoses in patients, with its greatest impacts in the critically ill . The reason why the impacts were greatest in critically ill patients is because.. the timeliness of both diagnosis and treatment in those patients are absolutely critical to their survival. An accurate diagnosis arrived at in a delayed fashion makes it too late to impact their clinical trajectory. A wrong diagnosis and treatment early on could seal their fate.
 With the advent of POCUS, no longer did we have to wait for all of the following to be done after entering an order for an ultrasound exam:
 Wait for an ultrasonographer to come and perform the study

 Wait for the ultrasonographer to painstakingly acquire images using an imaging protocol which assessed numerous variables that were irrelevant to the clinical questions important to saving the life of the patient ( but allowed for maximal reimbursement ). These “comprehensive” exams took way more time than the “focused” exams we later created.

 Wait for the ultrasonographer to send the images to a radiologist

 Wait for the radiologist to put the study on their worklist of images to interpret

 Wait for the radiologist to, in not-due time, interpret and write a formal report which would then, in not-due time, be sent to us, the ordering physician, many hours later.

 The “old way” was a painstaking process that would occur while the treating physician would be sweating it out at the bedside, trying to figure out what to do next because our patients were often deteriorating to the point of near death of a suspected but not truly known cause.
 Know this: physical exam findings - palpation and auscultation using hands and the stethoscope (invented in 1811) are extremely limited in determining the proximate cause of a life-threatening illness. As a doctor of the dying, you need to know the real time functioning of the most critical organs sustaining life, i.e. the heart, lung, liver, kidneys, intestines, and large blood vessels. Blood tests are sometimes revealing of the abnormality but not necessarily of the cause. Physical examination will give you clues but rarely the definitive answer.
 With an ultrasound probe in your hand, you could literally image the entire contours and function of all those organs and the information gained could lead you to initiate targeted therapies to reverse the respective organ failure detected.
 Just ask Winaka the orangutan (recall her from this post ):

 Anyway, instead of trying to send an unstable patient to a CT scanner or attempt to order multiple different organ ultrasound exams at the same time (which could and never would be done at the same time, or even on the same day, largely because each type of exam would require an ultrasonographer from a different service, (i.e. a lower leg exam for a clot, an echo (heart) exam, lung exam, and abdominal exam). Now, within minutes, I could do rapid surveys of the function of multiple organs, with immediate interpretation and application of findings. At two in the morning in some corner room of the hospital where a patient was deteriorating before my eyes.
 Here is one example of the heart ultrasound of a patient I was called to see on the medical ward who was suddenly breathless and in shock (low blood pressure, cool and clammy extremities).

 What you are looking at is the heart apex at the top of the screen, however the “black area” surrounding the heart represents a large amount of fluid within the pericardial sac such that it was compressing the right side of the heart (left side of screen) so little blood was getting pumped out. We rushed him to the ICU and put a drainage catheter through his ribs (using ultrasound).. and he instantly felt better. I have tons of cool cases like this but will leave off for now.
 POCUS was absolutely magical in the type and amount and speed of information that it gave you. I discovered this “magic” early on in my career.. and could not believe that the entire country and world of ICU doctors were not utilizing this technology in directing the care of their patients. I had tons of colleagues who, after relying on traditional methods of observation and intuition and reasoning (which were highly variable), would sign out their service to me on a Sunday night (ICU docs typically run the ICU for a week a time and would switch on Monday mornings). I would then come in on Monday and discover abnormalities they had not been aware of. It was absolutely frightening, knowing that the average doctor was relying on imperfect information while I had access to highly accurate, real-time and often treatment-changing information. Little did I know then, but for the next 15 years, I would devote my career to teaching doctors across the country and world in how to use ultrasound in the care of the critically ill patient.
 But, when I began, I knew very little obviously. I had to make myself expert in the skills of “image acquisition” and “image interpretation.” Meaning, I had to gain the skills of both an ultrasonographer and a radiologist. In the U.S and many other countries, this skill is never taught to non-radiologists, so I was forced to learn the skill largely on my own. An auto-didact if you will. Because, aside from my mentor Dr. Paul Mayo, there were so few ICU medicine practitioners who knew how to create ultrasound images in real time and interpret them accurately.
 So Paul Mayo taught me everything he knew about ultrasound before he left to take a position at a different hospital, first showing me the basics of acquiring and interpreting images of normal and diseased organs. But get this, he himself learned ultrasound from a German intern. In Germany, ultrasound image acquisition and interpretation was a standard part of a doctor’s medical training, starting in medical school. Although the average level of skill among the young doctors was quite low, the concept was highly valued (but not yet in the U.S).
 I do not think anyone outside of Medicine can understand the uniqueness of what Paul did with ultrasound. Paul was a Professor and the Director of an ICU in a major metropolitan center while an intern trained in Germany started telling him that if you learned to use ultrasound you could quickly find out a lot of things about a patient. If their lungs were dry or wet, if their gallbladder was inflamed, if their heart was functioning, and if not, which part of their heart was not functioning, if they had blood clots in their veins etc. The amount of detailed and specific information you could acquire within seconds to minutes was incredible. And the specificity of the information blew away the often in-accuracy or non-specificity of chest x-rays.
 To his historic credit, Paul Mayo listened to this intern. He started an “ultrasound club” where he would take an afternoon each week to practice image acquisition with the intern and any others that were interested. After learning what he could from that intern, Paul then reached out to his Cardiology colleagues and started going down to the Echo lab reading room to interpret cardiology exams with the experts. He even got them to teach him trans-esophageal cardiac echo (much more complex and invasive). Then Paul and his senior fellow at the time, Adolfo Kaplan, became one of the nations first non-cardiologists to pass the National Board of Echocardiography exam in the year 2000, one of the hardest exams among all specialty exams (65% passing rate even amongst cardiologists!). I later joined that elite group when I too passed the exam by one question in 2008.
 Paul then became colleagues with the true pioneers in the field which were the French. Fun fact as to why: in the U.S, almost all intensivists are pulmonologists, in much of Europe most intensivists are anesthesiologists, but in France, most of them are cardiologists . Cardiologists knew how to use ultrasound because that is the primary imaging modality of the heart. So, in the ICU, they started using their ultrasound machines to look at other organs and thus they literally invented the field. Through Paul Mayo, I was able to interact and learn from them on a regular basis. Another fun fact: in France, they call ICU doctors “re-animators,” i.e. the act of bringing life back to the lifeless.
 Now, the true pioneer and world-expert leader of POCUS among the french intensivists was Dr. Daniel Lichtenstein, a savant in the deepest sense of the word. Paul ended up becoming close friends and colleagues with Daniel. I read his seminal textbook maybe 6 times, ingesting every word. One early honor in my career was when, as a fellow still in training, I gave a lecture at a conference right before his keynote lecture.

 Some of the the most memorable care experiences were when I was faced with a patient dying of either multi-organ or single organ failure, and I did not know why. It is really humbling when you are the most senior doctor in the ICU and the entire team of trainees, nurses, consulting physicians (and families!) are looking to you to provide the diagnosis and guide an effective treatment plan and you don’t know what is wrong or what exactly to do.
 I hate saying this, but many doctors in such situations start barking orders.. as if they knew exactly what they were doing. They literally embody the adage of “don’t just stand there, do something.” The appearance of doing something made it seem like they knew what they were doing. No-one asked the doctor why they wanted to order this test or this medication, as everyone just assumed they had a reason and they knew what they were doing. But I could see that sometimes they were lost and essentially flailing to find some solid data to guide them as to what to do next. I get it, been there.
 I found that as I gained experience in critical care, when I was in those situations, I started doing the opposite. I became quiet and allowed my mind to race through the numerous diagnostic possibilities until I arrived at what I thought the best approach was, and yes, sometimes it included barking orders for testing/labs but it was mostly about absorbing the information available to you, asking for further details as to history, and then allowing your intuition and pattern recognition to guide your next actions. Many times the answer/diagnosis would come to me in this way only to be later validated by the testing and/or response to my treatment choice. What is fascinating about these situations is that they are unique to critical care - we were often immersed in medical emergencies which are defined by chaos, urgency, and the need to act on incomplete and sometimes unknowable information.
 After I became expert in POCUS, these situations were greatly reduced in complexity and stress because, in many of those cases, within minutes, I would know exactly what was wrong and could turn patients around because I could quickly identify a blown right or left ventricle, a massive pulmonary embolus, an occult pneumonia or excessive fluid in the lungs or a lung collapse, among many other critical diagnoses. It was exhilarating, not only to me, but to my trainees, but most importantly, to the welfare of the patient.
 After witnessing some of the more dramatically impactful cases that I managed, my trainees also became inspired to learn this skill set. So I taught while continuously learning, at times from my trainees themselves. We were all learning and teaching this new field together and it was exhilarating. Similar to what me and the FLCCC did when faced with the novel Covid-19 disease. Just sayin.
 Anyway, when I finished training, although I was not on a par with Paul Mayo, nationally I was one of the leading experts. So he and I, along with the amazing Seth Koenig, Mangala Narasimhan, and Robert Arntfield (still love you guys even though you haven’t called me in a long time), learned and taught and published together for years. We put together the first local, then regional, then national, then international courses in critical care ultrasonography. We travelled the country and world for years teaching, researching, publishing. It was exhausting but exhilarating. But it was new. And we were setting the standard for the practice of POCUS.
 The four of us spent years traveling around the country (and world - Spain and China and Saudi Arabia etc) creating and teaching courses for the American College of Chest Physicians. I did research projects in the field with my residents and fellows year after year. We created and administered the first “certification” exams. We, in collaboration with the Europeans literally set the “standard of care” and “consensus opinions.” The point is that it was us front-line doctors that set the standard of care, not some supposed health care leader or bureaucrat.
 I would say that my proudest achievement in POCUS was when I became the senior editor and co-author of the now best-selling textbook in the field, currently in it’s 2nd edition and translated into 7 languages. It even won the British Medical Association Presidents Award for best textbook the year it came out.

 But pioneering in medicine is NOT easy. My early years learning and practicing the skill were also spent fighting the specialties of Radiology and Cardiology who were trying to “protect their turf” of using ( and billing for ) ultrasound to look at the heart and other organs. They said we could never become sufficiently competent and that we would hurt patients instead by making “wrong diagnoses.” I said fine, then come and do your comprehensive heart exam at three in the morning while someone is deteriorating in front of me. That was hard for them to argue that point.
 Their obstructionism was driven largely, in my mind, by fear that we would order less “official” and “billable” ultrasound exams. It took us a long time, but we eventually proved them wrong in regards to “making errors.” I will say we certainly may have missed subtleties on those exams.. but.. subtle findings are almost never immediately life threatening. However, I will say that their fears of losing reimbursements were real because I definitely ordered a lot less “formal” ultrasound exams after I developed the imaging skills myself.
 Also, I can’t forget the fights with hospital administration, trying to get them to open the pocketbook and buy us ultrasound machines for use in the ICU. This is very hard to do if you also say you wont be billing for the exams you perform (sometimes we falsely promised we would bill but then didn’t - writing formal reports and billing took too long during a busy ICU day).
 So how then did we succeed in equipping every ICU in the country with an ultrasound machine as the standard of care? We argued that it was for patient safety and based that argument on the fact that many of the procedures we do in the ICU were made much much safer with the aid of ultrasound guidance. Hospitals don’t like lawsuits or patients injured. Ultrasound drastically reduced procedural catastrophes and lawsuits. Although rare occurrences, they were almost completely avoidable under ultrasound guidance in trained hands. Without that argument, the field would likely still be in its infancy. Fun fact: I always remember the ads posted in the NYC subway cars for law firms with this copy; “Have you been injured in a vascular procedure? Call Jacobi and Meyer!” The explosion of POCUS in ICU definitely reduced their business.
 My point is that the POCUS standard of care and consensus was created and driven by true “experts,” which to me, were the doctors or researchers on the front lines . That is why we called ourselves the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance in Covid. Not the rear-guard, bureaucratic, Pharma-controlled, pocket-protector, desk-doctor alliance (i.e. the NIH, PFDA, CDC).
 The doctors at the forefront of a new disease or practice in medicine will always know more and earlier than the "prevailing” consensus. Whatever the current consensus is, by definition, it will lag behind those of the front-line experts. But in California now, if a doctor forms an opinion based on their experiences diagnosing and treating this novel disease, they will not be able to teach those insights to others (“publicly express our opinions”) if it does not comport with the edicts emanating from behind the concrete edifices of our federal or state health agencies. Even if the doctors sole aim is to save lives or to warn a patient from incorrect or toxic treatments, they could lose their license. Beyond absurd. Hippocrates is rolling in his grave right now.
 I mean look at the last two and half years. First it was masks don’t work, they they do work, even on a beach in 40 mile-an-hour winds (Clownifornia). Hydroxychloroquine can be used, then it can’t. Lets skip ivermectin here. Then vaccines are 100% effective, then they found they don’t prevent transmission. They are safe, even in pregnancy, then the UK finally admits they have no data assuring safety in pregnancy just before birth rates around the world suddenly start to plummet 9 months after early peak rollout. But now California’s doctors need to shut up and withhold their professional opinion from patients even when they have knowledge of the mountains and myriad sources of data on the toxicity and lethality of the vaccines or the absurd ineffectiveness of Remdesivir, Paxlovid or molnupiravir.
 Although many are aware of our achievements in the FLCCC, I am also proud of contributions I made in Covid with non-FLCCC front-line colleagues. For instance, me and Paul Mayo recognized early on that the predominant form of transmission of SARS-Co-V2 was via tiny virus-laden droplets floating in the air and then inhaled by others when in the same indoor space. This was the reason why the illness spread so easily and in such massive numbers. We tried to alert the country to this fact by writing an Op-Ed which was initially accepted by the New York Times in April 2020. Unfortunately for us, the NY Times dropped our Op-Ed after half the Op-Ed board got fired when they published the controversial Senator Tom Cotton editorial that called for the military to quell the BLM protests. Later we were able to publish it in USA Today. But get this: we called airborne transmission at a time when the CDC and the WHO said it was not occurring. It was not for another year that the CDC admitted it, and even longer for the WHO . If I had been licensed in California and this law was operational at the time, that Op-Ed would have ended my career?

 Another little-known contribution was when I wrote the first paper identifying the pulmonary phase of Covid, not as a viral pneumonia (which it largely isn’t), but as an “organizing pneumonia” (a non-specific inflammatory response of the lung to injury) and whose mainstay of treatment is corticosteroids . My co-author was one of the top chest radiologists in the world (he led the U.S task force which did the initial review of all the chest CT scans that came out of Wuhan). The paper literally resulted from a discussion of the clinical and radiographic observations we were making… on the front lines .

 In that paper, I argued for widespread corticosteroid use at a time when all the national and international health care agencies were recommending against use.

 We submitted the paper to 6 journals before it was finally published 4 months later. By then corticosteroids had become the standard of care worldwide. Again, I wonder what would happen to me if I had done that under this law in California.
 Now, my license could be revoked if I recommend against Remdesivir, a joke of a drug in the hospital phase of this illness. Because if I do, that would be going against the “standard of care” in this country. This requires ignoring the fact that much of the world does not recommend its use in hospital. If my scientific opinion on the vaccine is like Denmark’s, which doesn’t vaccinate children against Covid and doesn’t recommend vaccination for low risk folks under 50, I will lose my license.
 So, to wrap up, you can see that I might have some “issues” with that California law. Someday I will tell you how I really feel about it :).

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Summary: A largely autobiographical journey down memory lane of my prematurely ended academic career.