Some Covid experts think that over-use of sedatives and opiates caused the increased deaths in early Covid. They even go as far as suggesting euthanasia was committed. I strongly disagree.
I must say BS sir & I have followed & respected you...till now. My husband was euthanized, killed, in the hospital. His records & his journal he kept confirm. He wasn't on a ventilator. Those evil drs never NEVER spoke to me & I know they didn't discuss what they were about to do with him. Again, confirmed by his hospital records. After 10 days of remdesivir they gave him sildenafil with caused afif. He refused it after that first dose yet they continued it for days...3x a day 20mg, 40mg & 60mg doses. After his body was weakened they put him on end of life & killed him in less than 2 days with morphine & Lorazepam.
Oh, they let me in to watch him be killed but no communication whatsoever!!!! You can defend all you want but my experience in this trumps your biased opinion.
A yr & a half later another hospital tried to kill my daughter. They vented her though her oxygen was 96% (confirmed by video) told me she was going to die & I said he'll no, not on my watch. I refused to leave her & fought he'll to get her off the vent and home to her family. She's alive today because of all I witnessed concerning my husband's MURDER IN THE HOSPITAL!!!!!!
I find this a very convincing and sincere post. It's valuable to have an honest discussion even if some views run against the 'viral' narrative. It certainly helped shed insight onto the disparity between centres, some overloaded and others deserted.
It's also a useful reminder of the early days, pre-steroids, when contradictory signs, in desperately ill patients led to much confusion and stress in how best to treat them.
Having worked in acute medicine for many years, I was always deeply suspicious of accusations of widescale homicide from health staff, whom I still find very much 'caring professions'
I would suggest the ire of some of the post respondents be directed against those responsible for the production of and subsequent profiteering from this wretched disease.
I appreciate your candid, account of your experiences in this article. Your willingness to jump in to help in NY shows bravery and compassion, and your willingness to testify in senate hearings to get the real story out about Ivermectin and other critical issues at the time makes you a hero in my book! Speaking of books, I’m looking forward to reading your’s! :)
In addition to thanking you for being one of the good guys who is willing to jump in and help in times of need, I want to tell you my husband’s story, which leads me to believe that some of the information shared in the news may have led to worse outcomes for some patients.
My husband had bacterial pneumonia from wearing the mask but didn’t know it. He had gone to urgent care a few times over the course of several weeks because he felt sick. They tested him for covid but it came back negative, so he just kept coming home thinking he had a cold or allergies. Then he got covid. Three days of covid and we had to take him to the emergency room. The doctors there believed his symptoms were all covid related and were about to admit him and put him on a vent, where he probably would’ve ended up like many of the patients you described. Fortunately, his sister is a nurse and coached him ahead of time to insist on getting a chest X-ray. Also fortunately, he is a stubborn man, and even in his weakened condition he argued with the doctors and nurses until they gave him an X-ray. When it came back showing the pneumonia, the doctor said he had bacterial pneumonia because viral pneumonia wouldn’t have set in that quickly.* They gave him two antibiotics and sent him home, or he stubbornly insisted on going home, I’m not sure which. I wasn’t allowed to be in there with him and he was in a haze. (That’s an issue for another day, ugh) He took the antibiotics and the next morning was slightly better. Each day the improvement was gradual, which reminded me of the way my kids would recover from ear infections and things requiring antibiotics. He was back to work after 8 days on the antibiotics.
My experience with my husband made me wonder, if we had never heard of covid pneumonia, would other people who were sick like he was in the urgent care or ER, have gotten an X-ray as a normal diagnostic test and then been given antibiotics if the results showed pneumonia. How much of what we heard in the news affected the treatment of patients in hospitals? If it had an effect, was it for the better? I suspect the fear that turned normal, rational people’s minds to mush during much of the past few years had a negative impact. I know the media as a messenger of fear and chaos isn’t your field of study. Just thought I’d mention it because it did have an effect on all of us, and doctors are human too.
The fact that covid was found in blood samples taken in November of 2019, also makes me wonder. If there were no noticeably overwhelmed hospitals in Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb… then maybe the chaos you saw in NY had some other contributing factors.
You mentioned that you have good pattern recognition, and I believe you do. I hope my pattern recognition is wrong when it’s telling me that I’m seeing a coordinated effort by people who intentionally sent out messages/protocols/directives that increased fear, chaos, and deaths during covid. I’m grateful to you for giving me hope that there are still good people in this world. Thank you!
*Not being a doctor, I don’t know how pneumonia looks on an X-ray, and if there’s a way of telling if it’s bacterial or viral. I think some of the messaging led doctors to believe that any pneumonia would be viral and not worth treating with antibiotics, but maybe that wasn’t true
Wow. A Brilliant piece of writing and explaining. Many thanks. This inside look and explanation of what goes on in such cases is something most of us would never experience or understand. There is so much nuance to what happens. We can all suspend judgement for a bit to gain a greater understanding. Just thanks.
"Dr. Paul recommends seeing: "Breaking the Oath: The Evils of Incentivized Healthcare."
2/2/20230
Hey Folks,
You won't want to miss the upcoming documentary, "Breaking the Oath: The Evils of Incentivized Healthcare." This powerful film exposes the intentional, genocidal murder of millions in the name of COVID protocols. It will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the healthcare industry." more at: https://www.paulthomasmd.com/drpaulsblog
Dr. Kory. Thank you for this article. It helps clarify many things.
The PCR test and its use has been a source of confusion for many, especially given the statements of Kary Mullis, the inventor of the technique. Would you be so kind as to shed some light on the matter? Thank you.
Dr. Kory deserves much praise for sharing his experience with dying patients. I will say, though that home hospice as opposed to dying in an ICU can be a comforting experience for the patient and family. MY MOST RECENT EXPERIENCE WITH HOME HOSPICE INVOLVES MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, WHO DIED OF COPD ABOUT A YEAR AGO. SHE WAS TOLD BY HER PULMONOLOGIST THAT THERE WASN’T MUCH MORE THAT COULD BE DONE TO RELIEVE HER SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND DISCOMFORT. SHE CAME HOME AND INFORMED THE FAMILY THAT SHE WANTED TO BE IN HOME HOSPICE. I AM A RETIRED NEUROLOGIST AND I INTERVIEWED SEPARATELY THE HOME HOSPICE NURSE BEFORE HER SEEN MY DEAR MOTHER-IN-LAW. THE FAMILY WAS ABLE TO SPEND TIME WITH HER ON HER DAY BEFORE PASSING. SHE HAD A STRONG FAITH IN GOD AND TOLD US ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS THAT DAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN HER DECEASED HUSBAND AND OTHERS, BECKONING AND WELCOMING HER TO HER NEW LIFE. A hospice nurse was excellent and comforting. My mother-in-law was given a sedative for sleeping that night, and she passed away at 2 AM in her own bed, peacefully. one thing Dr. Cory did not seem to mention and that is the power of faith, and I would suggest that those people in the Midwest accept a death more easily than those in New York, partly because they were largely Christian and believed that a better life awaited them. ( I did not do the capitalizations; the stupid dictation of iPhone did it, but I’m not about to attempt to retype everything, sorry).
I am a recently retired RN in Australia with many years experience in Palliative Care
I can only speak for Nursing Homes as haven’t worked in ICU for years
I doubted very much the deliberate intent in UK Nursing Homes as well
I agree entirely that most have a DNR order so Nurses have no choice but to relieve terminal suffering in this situation and with the greatly increased respiratory distress of the early Covid variants many more patients needed more Opiods or Midazolam so hence the greatly increased use
Unfortunately these patients were passively murdered by the complete banning of early treatment which could’ve saved many !
Probably UK laws are the same as Australia in that 2 Nurses must check the dose of any Opiod and both must attend the bedside and administer the drug together.
There is no way every RN on staff would have the deliberate intent to kill all their patients with these drugs!
This would mean that meetings were held in which they were instructed to kill all the patients! Really??
There’s no way all staff would openly agree to such a thing
Their intent would have definitely been to keep the (*NB already dying) patient as comfortable as possible which these drugs are very effective for.
I’ve been trained for years that Morphine is invaluable for terminal respiratory distress just as Dr Kory stated and I’ve witnessed it countless times
I’ve also administered Midazolam countless times in Palliative orders for many years
It’s easy for people to stand back & make ignorant judgments who have never witnessed numerous dying patients with respiratory distress
I know what I’d want for my mother or father and that would be these drugs to relieve them of the suffering of being slowly choked to death
I’d like to know what opposers to this with no actual experience would ‘prescribe’
for dying patients if not these drugs?
Maybe come in to prevent the patient from
throwing themselves out of bed in total anguish of not being able to breathe?
Of course you’d have to stay 24 hrs/day
It’s true also that empty beds are avoided at all costs in Nursing Homes as the Government Funding dries up!
Saying all the above I don’t doubt that malpractice did occur in Hospitals for multiple reasons but most of it would’ve been avoided with the early treatment that Governments criminally banned
This helps a lot. I had two relatives in the last year die at home that I was helping take care of…the first experience was absolutely traumatic. For some reason my sister brought her husband home because he didn’t die when taken off the ventilator (for heart attack) so he spent a few days in a hospital bed in her family room. I do now see that he was suffering but how is anyone to know what to do as an untrained bystander?!! In addition, my sister wasn’t even taking care of him as she was too busy yelling at people on the phone. I think we did a better job with my mom a few weeks ago. The nurse explained what to do with the morphine, etc. I don’t think she was uncomfortable most of the time. Still, what a crappy system that families are left to help their loved ones through death with so little support. A hospice nurse for a half hour a day is not enough. My mom was practically kicked out of the hospital so we didn’t have that option.
Please listen carefully. Not one commenter here understands why you could not interpret what happened in Britain. I can explain it.
I was trained in Canada. In a socialist system like Britain has. It was a demoralizing experience. All of us became deeply cynical. Without realizing what was happening to us we were indoctrinated to accept low standards of care, particularly for the elderly.
As inexperienced residents we learned quickly how to care for intensely ill patients on the medical floor often alone at night desperately poring through reference books stuffed in pockets sewn into our white coats. Because at 65 they were not eligible to get into the ICU.
And it was not just the elderly. My first rotation in family medicine was in the highest intensity pediatric ICU in that province. My first day I was put on call overnight. Alone. I hadn’t even had a tour of the facility, had not met the preceptors. Nobody to call for help. Kind of a joke on the new guy.
I was paged to do 4 intubations on newborns that night. I had only practiced on cats. Somehow they were all ok. The nurses helped me.
I had similar experiences in the adult ICU. A patient died after I made the call to intubate while on night shift alone and he aspirated during my attempt. Others had similar experiences.
We were sent to man rural ERs alone. I had patients die there too.
We became numb. Likely we all have PTSD. We accepted this disregard for life as normal. One of my friends quit the program after a famous person died during his intubation attempt and the story hit the paper. Doctor bashing it a blood sport in the media there.
I got out as did over half of my classmates. I’ve been practicing in the US for 25 years. It took 10 years to fully deprogram. The first few I didn’t know I needed it.
There’s no possible way you can identify with the mindset that exists in the socialist healthcare system.
Your assumptions about what went on in Britain and other socialist countries are natural but completely inaccurate.
This is not to castigate all the physicians and other healthcare providers in those countries. They are not evil. Rather they are conditioned to accept what should be unthinkable. They have no idea what has been done to them.
To a degree the same thing has been happening here. We have been conditioned to accept direction from the health authorities. And insurance companies. Many physicians have nurse managers as their boss. Physician autonomy is now a quaint irrelevant concept.
Our training has been by spoon feeding. Few have the capacity for independent thought and moral foundations have been so eroded that many cannot fathom anything but blind obedience. We are unprepared for corruption.
I hope this helps you and helps those who believe you are siding with the evil agenda behind this pandemic.
People please listen. Dr Kory is clearly a principled moral physician who cannot fathom the mindset I have described.
My thanks to you Dr Kory for being among those still capable of independent thinking with a commitment to truth and morality and a willingness to fight for what is right.
I greatly appreciate your description of what went on in NYC. Most of us never saw that chaos. It helps to know. And you have presented end of life care as it should be.
Dr. Pierre. For the first time I'm not pleased with a post from you.
Very fine diving line between palliative care, end of life treatment & offing people.
I applaud you defence of your profession & colleagues.
You might be overlooking one massive thing in the UK's information.
This article doesn't directly state that the UK did actually order huge amounts of midazolam prior to the pandemic. But an interesting article nonetheless.
Hi Pierre, this is an excellent and necessary post in that it has helped me to see that an alternative explanation in terms of the meds, and frontline carers’ explicit intent.
But that the situation was driven - as you’ve said - by failed policies, including that “ no effective anti-viral or anti-inflammatory treatments were “approved” is a critical point.
Could one argue for euthanasistic or murderous intent somewhere up the chain?
___
And with frontline caters, could one could still argue for negligence driven by fear or self-preservation or subservience or something.
___
As some others have said, an amend to your post prompted by comments and your replies may help.
I'm glad you cleared this up. John O'Looney (the funeral director from England) indicated he had some inside intel that nurses in the UK were actually using these drugs to euthanize people.
I would like to rebut from “my lane” as it were on several items in your note Dr Kory. I cared for my cancer stricken mother, who died peaceably at my home. This was during the original SARS, we were even quarantined at one point. I had a supportive husband, though little care from Cdn govt but we managed it. She was in her own room gazing out the window when she passed. Her lungs had filled so her breathing was shortened (she had double pneumonia as a child and her lungs were scarred). My young nephew also died peaceably at home, from leukaemia.
The thing is my mother had no distress on a well known opiate, my nephew on a morphine drip had no distress. So please, please if your loved on would prefer to die at home it can be done. My father died in palliative again from cancer and my mother never forgave herself for the manner in which he was treated.
What has happened in Cdn ICU I do not know but the old folks home was a crime scene and inhuman. I do know this as a dear friend was one of the few to volunteer to work the Covid wing. Not one doctor came, not one aged person was sent to hospital. No antibiotics were issued. They were isolated in their rooms on short rations as no one had time or were fearful to stay and nurse. The image of an elderly person holding short rations of water quivering in their hand unable to drink quick enough will remain with me forever as a fully garbed shield, mask et al would wait impatiently or leave, thus the food or water not ingested.
“They died of starvation, isolation” to quote my friend. I will ask about the pain relief provided.
Don’t put your loved one in a nursing home if you can possibly help it and dying at home can be done, it is hard work, but it can be done.
I must say BS sir & I have followed & respected you...till now. My husband was euthanized, killed, in the hospital. His records & his journal he kept confirm. He wasn't on a ventilator. Those evil drs never NEVER spoke to me & I know they didn't discuss what they were about to do with him. Again, confirmed by his hospital records. After 10 days of remdesivir they gave him sildenafil with caused afif. He refused it after that first dose yet they continued it for days...3x a day 20mg, 40mg & 60mg doses. After his body was weakened they put him on end of life & killed him in less than 2 days with morphine & Lorazepam.
Oh, they let me in to watch him be killed but no communication whatsoever!!!! You can defend all you want but my experience in this trumps your biased opinion.
A yr & a half later another hospital tried to kill my daughter. They vented her though her oxygen was 96% (confirmed by video) told me she was going to die & I said he'll no, not on my watch. I refused to leave her & fought he'll to get her off the vent and home to her family. She's alive today because of all I witnessed concerning my husband's MURDER IN THE HOSPITAL!!!!!!
I find this a very convincing and sincere post. It's valuable to have an honest discussion even if some views run against the 'viral' narrative. It certainly helped shed insight onto the disparity between centres, some overloaded and others deserted.
It's also a useful reminder of the early days, pre-steroids, when contradictory signs, in desperately ill patients led to much confusion and stress in how best to treat them.
Having worked in acute medicine for many years, I was always deeply suspicious of accusations of widescale homicide from health staff, whom I still find very much 'caring professions'
I would suggest the ire of some of the post respondents be directed against those responsible for the production of and subsequent profiteering from this wretched disease.
I appreciate your candid, account of your experiences in this article. Your willingness to jump in to help in NY shows bravery and compassion, and your willingness to testify in senate hearings to get the real story out about Ivermectin and other critical issues at the time makes you a hero in my book! Speaking of books, I’m looking forward to reading your’s! :)
In addition to thanking you for being one of the good guys who is willing to jump in and help in times of need, I want to tell you my husband’s story, which leads me to believe that some of the information shared in the news may have led to worse outcomes for some patients.
My husband had bacterial pneumonia from wearing the mask but didn’t know it. He had gone to urgent care a few times over the course of several weeks because he felt sick. They tested him for covid but it came back negative, so he just kept coming home thinking he had a cold or allergies. Then he got covid. Three days of covid and we had to take him to the emergency room. The doctors there believed his symptoms were all covid related and were about to admit him and put him on a vent, where he probably would’ve ended up like many of the patients you described. Fortunately, his sister is a nurse and coached him ahead of time to insist on getting a chest X-ray. Also fortunately, he is a stubborn man, and even in his weakened condition he argued with the doctors and nurses until they gave him an X-ray. When it came back showing the pneumonia, the doctor said he had bacterial pneumonia because viral pneumonia wouldn’t have set in that quickly.* They gave him two antibiotics and sent him home, or he stubbornly insisted on going home, I’m not sure which. I wasn’t allowed to be in there with him and he was in a haze. (That’s an issue for another day, ugh) He took the antibiotics and the next morning was slightly better. Each day the improvement was gradual, which reminded me of the way my kids would recover from ear infections and things requiring antibiotics. He was back to work after 8 days on the antibiotics.
My experience with my husband made me wonder, if we had never heard of covid pneumonia, would other people who were sick like he was in the urgent care or ER, have gotten an X-ray as a normal diagnostic test and then been given antibiotics if the results showed pneumonia. How much of what we heard in the news affected the treatment of patients in hospitals? If it had an effect, was it for the better? I suspect the fear that turned normal, rational people’s minds to mush during much of the past few years had a negative impact. I know the media as a messenger of fear and chaos isn’t your field of study. Just thought I’d mention it because it did have an effect on all of us, and doctors are human too.
The fact that covid was found in blood samples taken in November of 2019, also makes me wonder. If there were no noticeably overwhelmed hospitals in Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb… then maybe the chaos you saw in NY had some other contributing factors.
You mentioned that you have good pattern recognition, and I believe you do. I hope my pattern recognition is wrong when it’s telling me that I’m seeing a coordinated effort by people who intentionally sent out messages/protocols/directives that increased fear, chaos, and deaths during covid. I’m grateful to you for giving me hope that there are still good people in this world. Thank you!
*Not being a doctor, I don’t know how pneumonia looks on an X-ray, and if there’s a way of telling if it’s bacterial or viral. I think some of the messaging led doctors to believe that any pneumonia would be viral and not worth treating with antibiotics, but maybe that wasn’t true
Wow. A Brilliant piece of writing and explaining. Many thanks. This inside look and explanation of what goes on in such cases is something most of us would never experience or understand. There is so much nuance to what happens. We can all suspend judgement for a bit to gain a greater understanding. Just thanks.
Pertinent from Dr. Paul Thomas' blog:
"Dr. Paul recommends seeing: "Breaking the Oath: The Evils of Incentivized Healthcare."
2/2/20230
Hey Folks,
You won't want to miss the upcoming documentary, "Breaking the Oath: The Evils of Incentivized Healthcare." This powerful film exposes the intentional, genocidal murder of millions in the name of COVID protocols. It will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the healthcare industry." more at: https://www.paulthomasmd.com/drpaulsblog
Dr. Kory. Thank you for this article. It helps clarify many things.
The PCR test and its use has been a source of confusion for many, especially given the statements of Kary Mullis, the inventor of the technique. Would you be so kind as to shed some light on the matter? Thank you.
Dr. Kory deserves much praise for sharing his experience with dying patients. I will say, though that home hospice as opposed to dying in an ICU can be a comforting experience for the patient and family. MY MOST RECENT EXPERIENCE WITH HOME HOSPICE INVOLVES MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, WHO DIED OF COPD ABOUT A YEAR AGO. SHE WAS TOLD BY HER PULMONOLOGIST THAT THERE WASN’T MUCH MORE THAT COULD BE DONE TO RELIEVE HER SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND DISCOMFORT. SHE CAME HOME AND INFORMED THE FAMILY THAT SHE WANTED TO BE IN HOME HOSPICE. I AM A RETIRED NEUROLOGIST AND I INTERVIEWED SEPARATELY THE HOME HOSPICE NURSE BEFORE HER SEEN MY DEAR MOTHER-IN-LAW. THE FAMILY WAS ABLE TO SPEND TIME WITH HER ON HER DAY BEFORE PASSING. SHE HAD A STRONG FAITH IN GOD AND TOLD US ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS THAT DAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN HER DECEASED HUSBAND AND OTHERS, BECKONING AND WELCOMING HER TO HER NEW LIFE. A hospice nurse was excellent and comforting. My mother-in-law was given a sedative for sleeping that night, and she passed away at 2 AM in her own bed, peacefully. one thing Dr. Cory did not seem to mention and that is the power of faith, and I would suggest that those people in the Midwest accept a death more easily than those in New York, partly because they were largely Christian and believed that a better life awaited them. ( I did not do the capitalizations; the stupid dictation of iPhone did it, but I’m not about to attempt to retype everything, sorry).
https://twitter.com/Xx17965797N/status/1627702893229838336?s=20
I am a recently retired RN in Australia with many years experience in Palliative Care
I can only speak for Nursing Homes as haven’t worked in ICU for years
I doubted very much the deliberate intent in UK Nursing Homes as well
I agree entirely that most have a DNR order so Nurses have no choice but to relieve terminal suffering in this situation and with the greatly increased respiratory distress of the early Covid variants many more patients needed more Opiods or Midazolam so hence the greatly increased use
Unfortunately these patients were passively murdered by the complete banning of early treatment which could’ve saved many !
Probably UK laws are the same as Australia in that 2 Nurses must check the dose of any Opiod and both must attend the bedside and administer the drug together.
There is no way every RN on staff would have the deliberate intent to kill all their patients with these drugs!
This would mean that meetings were held in which they were instructed to kill all the patients! Really??
There’s no way all staff would openly agree to such a thing
Their intent would have definitely been to keep the (*NB already dying) patient as comfortable as possible which these drugs are very effective for.
I’ve been trained for years that Morphine is invaluable for terminal respiratory distress just as Dr Kory stated and I’ve witnessed it countless times
I’ve also administered Midazolam countless times in Palliative orders for many years
It’s easy for people to stand back & make ignorant judgments who have never witnessed numerous dying patients with respiratory distress
I know what I’d want for my mother or father and that would be these drugs to relieve them of the suffering of being slowly choked to death
I’d like to know what opposers to this with no actual experience would ‘prescribe’
for dying patients if not these drugs?
Maybe come in to prevent the patient from
throwing themselves out of bed in total anguish of not being able to breathe?
Of course you’d have to stay 24 hrs/day
It’s true also that empty beds are avoided at all costs in Nursing Homes as the Government Funding dries up!
Saying all the above I don’t doubt that malpractice did occur in Hospitals for multiple reasons but most of it would’ve been avoided with the early treatment that Governments criminally banned
This helps a lot. I had two relatives in the last year die at home that I was helping take care of…the first experience was absolutely traumatic. For some reason my sister brought her husband home because he didn’t die when taken off the ventilator (for heart attack) so he spent a few days in a hospital bed in her family room. I do now see that he was suffering but how is anyone to know what to do as an untrained bystander?!! In addition, my sister wasn’t even taking care of him as she was too busy yelling at people on the phone. I think we did a better job with my mom a few weeks ago. The nurse explained what to do with the morphine, etc. I don’t think she was uncomfortable most of the time. Still, what a crappy system that families are left to help their loved ones through death with so little support. A hospice nurse for a half hour a day is not enough. My mom was practically kicked out of the hospital so we didn’t have that option.
Dr Kory
Please listen carefully. Not one commenter here understands why you could not interpret what happened in Britain. I can explain it.
I was trained in Canada. In a socialist system like Britain has. It was a demoralizing experience. All of us became deeply cynical. Without realizing what was happening to us we were indoctrinated to accept low standards of care, particularly for the elderly.
As inexperienced residents we learned quickly how to care for intensely ill patients on the medical floor often alone at night desperately poring through reference books stuffed in pockets sewn into our white coats. Because at 65 they were not eligible to get into the ICU.
And it was not just the elderly. My first rotation in family medicine was in the highest intensity pediatric ICU in that province. My first day I was put on call overnight. Alone. I hadn’t even had a tour of the facility, had not met the preceptors. Nobody to call for help. Kind of a joke on the new guy.
I was paged to do 4 intubations on newborns that night. I had only practiced on cats. Somehow they were all ok. The nurses helped me.
I had similar experiences in the adult ICU. A patient died after I made the call to intubate while on night shift alone and he aspirated during my attempt. Others had similar experiences.
We were sent to man rural ERs alone. I had patients die there too.
We became numb. Likely we all have PTSD. We accepted this disregard for life as normal. One of my friends quit the program after a famous person died during his intubation attempt and the story hit the paper. Doctor bashing it a blood sport in the media there.
I got out as did over half of my classmates. I’ve been practicing in the US for 25 years. It took 10 years to fully deprogram. The first few I didn’t know I needed it.
There’s no possible way you can identify with the mindset that exists in the socialist healthcare system.
Your assumptions about what went on in Britain and other socialist countries are natural but completely inaccurate.
This is not to castigate all the physicians and other healthcare providers in those countries. They are not evil. Rather they are conditioned to accept what should be unthinkable. They have no idea what has been done to them.
To a degree the same thing has been happening here. We have been conditioned to accept direction from the health authorities. And insurance companies. Many physicians have nurse managers as their boss. Physician autonomy is now a quaint irrelevant concept.
Our training has been by spoon feeding. Few have the capacity for independent thought and moral foundations have been so eroded that many cannot fathom anything but blind obedience. We are unprepared for corruption.
I hope this helps you and helps those who believe you are siding with the evil agenda behind this pandemic.
People please listen. Dr Kory is clearly a principled moral physician who cannot fathom the mindset I have described.
My thanks to you Dr Kory for being among those still capable of independent thinking with a commitment to truth and morality and a willingness to fight for what is right.
I greatly appreciate your description of what went on in NYC. Most of us never saw that chaos. It helps to know. And you have presented end of life care as it should be.
Dr. Pierre. For the first time I'm not pleased with a post from you.
Very fine diving line between palliative care, end of life treatment & offing people.
I applaud you defence of your profession & colleagues.
You might be overlooking one massive thing in the UK's information.
This article doesn't directly state that the UK did actually order huge amounts of midazolam prior to the pandemic. But an interesting article nonetheless.
https://www.thebernician.net/overwhelming-evidence-of-midazolam-murders-by-government-policy/
Why would they, genocide was their goal
Hi Pierre, this is an excellent and necessary post in that it has helped me to see that an alternative explanation in terms of the meds, and frontline carers’ explicit intent.
But that the situation was driven - as you’ve said - by failed policies, including that “ no effective anti-viral or anti-inflammatory treatments were “approved” is a critical point.
Could one argue for euthanasistic or murderous intent somewhere up the chain?
___
And with frontline caters, could one could still argue for negligence driven by fear or self-preservation or subservience or something.
___
As some others have said, an amend to your post prompted by comments and your replies may help.
I'm glad you cleared this up. John O'Looney (the funeral director from England) indicated he had some inside intel that nurses in the UK were actually using these drugs to euthanize people.
I would like to rebut from “my lane” as it were on several items in your note Dr Kory. I cared for my cancer stricken mother, who died peaceably at my home. This was during the original SARS, we were even quarantined at one point. I had a supportive husband, though little care from Cdn govt but we managed it. She was in her own room gazing out the window when she passed. Her lungs had filled so her breathing was shortened (she had double pneumonia as a child and her lungs were scarred). My young nephew also died peaceably at home, from leukaemia.
The thing is my mother had no distress on a well known opiate, my nephew on a morphine drip had no distress. So please, please if your loved on would prefer to die at home it can be done. My father died in palliative again from cancer and my mother never forgave herself for the manner in which he was treated.
What has happened in Cdn ICU I do not know but the old folks home was a crime scene and inhuman. I do know this as a dear friend was one of the few to volunteer to work the Covid wing. Not one doctor came, not one aged person was sent to hospital. No antibiotics were issued. They were isolated in their rooms on short rations as no one had time or were fearful to stay and nurse. The image of an elderly person holding short rations of water quivering in their hand unable to drink quick enough will remain with me forever as a fully garbed shield, mask et al would wait impatiently or leave, thus the food or water not ingested.
“They died of starvation, isolation” to quote my friend. I will ask about the pain relief provided.
Don’t put your loved one in a nursing home if you can possibly help it and dying at home can be done, it is hard work, but it can be done.