I have long reviewed medical records of patients harmed by poor medical care. Here, I present clear evidence of what actually caused the 2 girls deaths in Texas. It wasn't measles. Not by a long shot.
This is important and well written. They were butchered by "healthcare," not a disease that, in the best circumstances, we all should be exposed to to improve our immunity.
So true, and the brilliant review and efforts to educate our world but this is happening every day in our hospitals using their unprecedented protocols that don't work for whatever reason, all over the world dictated by big Pharma instead of real front line doctors that save people.
Thank you to DOCTORS and educated humanitarians like you Dr YOHO,
Dr. Pierre Corry KORY
Dr. Susan Humphries Dr. Edwards
Dr. BARTLET?
Dr. Paul MerrickMARIK
DR. Thomas LEVY
Robert F Kennedy
CHD TV NETWORK
For continuing to educate humanity that there are safe alternatives to our captured and corrupt healthcare that are accessible to us. Continuing to pray for miracles for humanity as they are coming to fruition thanks to you and many more Frontline humanitarians
Dr Kory…..”Recent papers have documented significant decreases in Americans' trust in their hospitals and doctors (and media) compared to before Covid.” That statement for me and others I know is absolutely correct. I do not go to a doctor regularly for anything…(other than my pulmonologist who is watching some spots in my lungs….are they inflammation, infection, parasites? Don’t know…just watching).
I have decided at my age, (75 and on no medication other than vitamins) I’ll just go to urgent care when needed. I did establish with a regular MD but I am currently waiting to get in to have an inguinal hernia looked at….waiting for over 6 months. Unbelievable!
There are so many other options out there for you that are safer and more accessible, hopefully our front line people will reach out to you or you will see the solutions before you have to be treated by our current medical model so you can stay healthy, praying for miracles for you and all humanity
Be wary of urgent care too. We’ve rarely been properly diagnosed or treated at urgent care (Oregon, perhaps better elsewhere?). Fortunately, haven’t needed urgent care in years. Very lucky!
Grammy: I'm also dealing with an inguinal hernia, which began about a month ago. I'm following George Hirst's lessons for how he fixed his own hernia naturally without surgery. It's too early to tell whether his approach will work for me, but it's definitely worth checking out while you're waiting for MD support.
MO. I was trying to find an office that would not push the VAX. A friend told me about one older doctor there that was like-minded. His waiting list for new patients is over 5000!!!! Yes, 5000! So I took another doc in the office who was seeing new patients thinking they might have his same viewpoint!
Me too. But I wasn't so lucky. EVERYWHERE I went, vaccines were being pushed by EVERYONE. I finally raised my voice when I spoke "No." It abated, but still didn't stop. I carefully look at the faces of the nurses and doctors that insist I take the vaccine. And I see no humanity, despite their profession.
Are you all saying that Today, five years later, they are still pushing that Conviper thing before treating you? let me guess, the flu and shingles stick too?
Dr. K... Thanks for sharing this with us and for helping the families of these two victims. ...So very sad and unnecessary. Last year marked 50 years since I graduated from medical school (UT, Memphis, 1974), so I have seen some changes over the last half century!
My career went down an Ophthalmology path, but I remained interested in general medicine issues as I maintained a solo practice for 30 years. During that time, I became somewhat of a "go-to" expert for numerous med-mal cases in the Ophthalmology sphere. Most of the cases I consulted on proved to be simply unfortunate outcomes of eye surgery that rarely implicated surgeon error.
As life so often does, it relocated me to the PNW in 2012 where I continued in Ophthalmology for a couple of years (at UW), but soon diverted into cannabis medicine following the death of my son. Over the next few years, I once again became involved in consulting for numerous med-mal attorneys in the Seattle area. This time, there was a marked change in the findings. Almost every case I reviewed was riddled with failures in diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes - that, an old Ophthalmologist could easily spot! Quite disturbing.
IMO, this is a direct result of the corporatization of medicine/healthcare in this country. It started in the 80s and has now progressed to complete takeover of medicine. Medicine has been dehumanized and monetized to the point that there is no concern for actual patients or outcomes. The only concern is the bottom line.
Medical education is centered on producing compliant physicians who will work as obedient cogs in the corporate machine that is mainstream medicine. The profession has become mechanistic, reductionist, and truly anti-human. Young docs are trained to rely on technology - imaging, lab results, computer generated treatment protocols (usually profit and politics driven) - instead of their own reasoning. In addition, we have moved to a "team" approach in medicine where multiple physicians, nurses, paramedical personnel swarm around and over each other while failing to interact with each other for the patient's benefit. In fact, the main focus is patient "through put" (10 minutes per patient), minimizing appropriate testing (to save money), and maximizing reimbursement via "proper" coding (that is, coding that will maximize profit while staying just under the "fraud" radar).
I fully expect that most physicians will soon be replaced by AI generated entities who, of course, will be programmed to maximize profits for the usual zillionaires. In some ways, this is poetic as physicians in the US have abrogated their responsibilities to their patients by allowing the takeover of the profession by corporatists who offer often excessive salaries and promises of "decent" hours. The most compliant physicians, of course, end up in positions of power (licensing bodies, specialty boards, AMA, NIH, CDC, FDA, and corporate boards) where they are amply rewarded for their service.
The good/bad news about all of this is that the system is collapsing as I type. The COVID debacle has awakened many and, so, one hopes that there will be a re-building of something new and better for Humankind.
Please pardon the rant. Your post really triggered me...
This is excellent. I am drafting a post on what I see are numerous issues with modern medicine - training curriculums, practice, technology expansion, training hour restrictions, coding, reimbursement, DEI, proliferation of lower cost NPs (please know I largely work with NPs in my practice, my partner is an NP who is one of the best clinicians I have seen, but my NP's are veteran nurses with tons of experience in nursing and as practitioners, now they are coming out of nursing school, do a couple of years and then become NP's, who poorly trained doctors then train - it is a mess. Your points above (and other readers below) are excellent and will be incorporated. Although I was not trained "in the days of the giants" like you (my intern year was one of the first with training hour limits), you guys were the real "residents" (i.e., docs who literally lived in the hospital). My transformation came in my first 2 years as an attending when I worked in a short-staffed Dept such that I was billing 250% of an average ICU doc - my hospital was worried at one point they would be investigated for fraud. But there was none. I literally was seeing so many patients and working so much it was crazy, I was commuting by train and would read up on my patients issues obsessively
Proud of you, Pierre!. I am not sure I qualify as a "giant", but I did know a few! Dinosaurs walked the earth back then and bleeding bowls and leeches were in vogue...
Yes... Many of the RNPs today are as well trained as the GPs of yore - and, I have been greatly impressed by some of the young naturopaths.
Oh yes you are absolutely correct!! On every issue you mentioned. I feel the rant too.... Let's not forget the independent pharmacies that have been blackballed out of their market share by collusion between insurance companies and corporate pharmacies such as walgreens etc. Add them to the list of professions who both took a knee for the payout or where forced out by no one fighting for it.
I'm a PT of almost 30 years and I have seen the quality of the new PTs decline even as our association pushed us in to a "doctorate" program (LOL doctorate.. it was the exact same licensing exam until 2020, probably still is the same). The only differences I have noticed is more loans due to increased cost, more hubris/entitlement since now they are "doctors" and significantly less diagnostic ability. At my PT school in 1994, all of my professors worked in the clinic to some degree AND of course all did research, which stretched them very thin. NOW if one wants to even be adjunct faculty anywhere the requirement "PhD with active grant applications or PhD pursuant". We can see where the priorities in educating our students lies.
I too am actually glad the system is imploding -- it may not be entirely too late since now the curtain has been yanked aside and the shell shocked puppets behind the Truman Show have been exposed. We can only hope and pray.....
Understand and agree... The insane licensure/certification thing (worthless CME programs, time-dated certifications, never-ending fees from licensing bodies and government) has now carried over into ALL healthcare fields and is largely a sham that is used to protect greed-based politically-motivated agendas that do NOTHING to improve patent care. It is primarily used by the controlling corporations (and, government agencies) to enforce compliance to particular profit schemes and to politically-driven control mechanisms that direct "political contributions" by the donor class back to the donors. We live in a literal mafia state.
I sympathize with those in PT (have several present and retired therapists as patients) as that profession has been commoditized as just another "profit center" for the boyz and girlz in the corporate board rooms.
Some of this I concluded over the years. Your write-up filled out the picture for me. Right now I am reading The Healing Hand Man and Wound in the Ancient World, a comprehensive work by Guido Majno. Ignorance and error in the early stages of medical care are understandable. Today though? The more things change the more they stay the same.
Hospitals are dangerous environments. I’m a critical care nurse and I witness medical malfeasance regularly. We have one exceptional intensive care Doc and one fairly good one. The days they’re on, my patients are safe.
As the Chief of the Critical Care Service at the University of Wisconsin, if I wanted to know how good a new doctor was, all I had to do was ask the ICU nurses. They knew. There would be a collective groan when learning that certain doctors were "coming on service" each Monday.
May I be so brazen as to ask why they are not called out/yanked out, interrogated, sent to medical boot camp, or unlicensed? Is there a yearly review like the rest of us in the work environment go through? Where is the accountability and the statistical mapping of how each doctor's patient fared after being released? Thank you.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is reasonable to assume that these children, like most of the population, have only a fraction of the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L = 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune systems need to function properly. The family of these children and the treating doctors are probably unaware of both this need and of the their child's likely far too low 25-hydroxyvitamin D level.
If they had had the 50 ng/mL or more level, there would have been a much reduced chance of the pervasive bacterial infections which ultimately killed them.
Please see the research cited and discussed regarding the vitamin D compounds and the immune system at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/. This includes a tutorial https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#02-compounds on 25-hydroxyvitamin D to calcitriol intracrine signaling, which is crucial to the ability of many types of immune cell to respond to the individual cell's changing circumstances. This, and the related paracrine signaling, must be understood by all medical professionals, immunologists, virologists, epidemiologists etc. if they are to understand generally, and for each person, why severe disease occurs and often persists, despite drug treatment. However, there is no peer-reviewed explanation of these signaling systems. Most medical professionals and immunologists have never heard of them, in part because they have been elucidated only in the last 15 to 20 years. These signaling systems are completely unrelated to hormonal signaling and are not affected by the very low - 0.05 to 0.1 ng/mL - level of circulating 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (calcitriol) which the kidneys produce and which acts as a hormone (long distance blood-borne signaling molecule) to alter the behavior of cells of multiple types in distant parts of the body which are involved in calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism.
This page begins with recommendations from New Jersey based Professor of Medicine, Sunil Wimalawansa on the average daily supplemental intake quantities of vitamin D3 which will attain least 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, over several months, without the need for blood tests or medical monitoring:
70 to 90 IU / kg body weight for those not suffering from obesity (BMI < 30).
100 to 130 IU / kg body weight for obesity I & II (BMI 30 to 39).
140 to 180 IU / kg body weight for obesity III (BMI > 39).
For 70 kg (154 lb) body weight without obesity, this is about 0.125 milligrams (125 micrograms 5000 IU) a day. This takes several months to attain the desired > 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D. This is 8 or more times what most governments recommend. "5000 IU" a day sounds like a lot, but it is a gram every 22 years - and pharma-grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram ex-factory.
These recommendations are included in a recent article with another professor of medicine Scott T. Weiss and professor of pediatrics Bruce W. Hollis: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/22/3969. All three have been researching vitamin D for decades.
There's very little vitamin D in food, whether it is fortified with vitamin D3 or the the less effective D2. While UV-B exposure of ideally white skin can produce plenty of vitamin D3, this is not available all year round far from the equator - and it always damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer.
Assuming a patient arrives in ICU and is reasonably suspected of having low 25-hydroxyvitamin D, even without a blood test and the hours or day or so required to get the results, the most important treatment of all (other than immediate hydration, prevention of shock, breathing support etc.) is to boost their circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level safely over 50 ng/mL.
One way to do this is a single bolus (loading) oral dose of vitamin D3, such as 10 mg (400,000 IU) for average weight adults. This is hydroxylated mainly in the liver, so about 1/4 of these molecules go into circulation as 25-hydroxyvitamin D. The trouble with this is that it takes days for most of this process to occur.
A far better approach is to use a single oral dose of calcifediol, which *is* 25-hydroxyvitamin D. This is more readily absorbed than vitamin D3 since it has two, rather than one, hydrophilic hydroxyl groups. It goes straight into circulation and so raises the level within a few hours. Prof. Wimalawansa recommends 0.014 milligrams per kg body weight, which is 1 milligram for average weight adults. See: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#4.7.
Dr Kory's analysis identifies treatment options which would probably have saved the lives of these children, in all the circumstances, and which were not enacted.
The children would probably never have had a severe measles infection with subsequent bacterial infection if they had 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D at the time of infection. So it could be argued that their deaths were due to lack of proper vitamin D3 supplementation (or, in theory, lack of sufficient UV-B skin exposure to attain this - but such levels of exposure are impractical and raise the risk of skin cancer).
Given their likely very low 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and the fact that this could have been boosted over days with readily available vitamin D3, or in hours with calcifediol, which is hard to obtain in the USA, we could also conclude with some confidence that the children died because of both initial inadequate 25-hydroxyvitamin D and the clinicians' failure to boost this over 50 ng/mL ASAP. It is possible that this treatment alone, without antibiotics, would have saved them. They would certainly tackle any infection much more strongly with 50 ng/mL than with the very common levels of 20 ng/mL, or 10 ng/mL. Some people have only 5 ng/mL, and some people - such as a subset of Arabic women in sunny Israel - have even less than 4 or 5 ng/mL, which is the limit of detection in blood tests. See the histograms of levels at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#israel .
Then see the graph of risk of post-operative infections (also, generally bacterial) according to 25-hydroxyvitamin D from the 2014 Quraishi et al. study at Massachusetts General Hospital: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#00-50ngmL.
Thanks Dr Kory for all your great work and for supporting what I wrote.
I believe the IMA needs a Vitamin D Protocol, for all ages, body weights and degrees of obesity, based on Prof. Wimalawansa's recommendations for how much vitamin D3 to supplement, on average, per day and on his recommendations for using calcifediol (== 25-hydroxyvitamin D) or, if this is not available, bolus vitamin D3, to boost 25--hydroxyvitamin D levels in clinical emergencies.
It is critical that all medical professionals understand how the immune system relies on the circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level, and not at all on the very low level of circulating 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D calcitriol in order to function properly. Likewise that circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D diffuses into cells where it is the essential raw material for forming the calcitriol signaling molecule, in intracrine and paracrine signaling, which are completely different (within a single cell, and to nearby cells of typically different types, respectively) from the kidney driven hormonal use of circulating calcitriol.
The biochemistry is not complex, but it must be fully understood. Otherwise, people assume - as many do today - that the way to "boost the immune system" is to raise the very low level of circulating (hormonal) calcitriol. As Prof. Wimalawansa pointed out to the FLCCC in early 2022, this is not the way to improve immune system functioning, and would disturb calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism.
This Protocol would cover all people in ordinary life, including pregnant women and so their babes-to-be whose brains are building themselves in ways which clearly depend on adequate 25-hydroxyvitamin D, since low levels increase the incidence of ADHD etc. (likely including autism) and mental retardation: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2 as well as pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth and low birth weight. Also, in breast feeding, (where 25-hydroxyvitamin D from the mother goes straight into the infant's bloodstream, along with some vitamin D3 which must be hydroxylated, primarily, in the liver.
Long-term - for decades before old age - maintaining 50 ng/ml or more circulating vitamin D3 will greatly reduce the incidence of dementia: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3.
At all ages it reduces the risk of serious infectious and chronic disease, as well as the risk of cancer. Less severe viral and bacterial infections reduces the rate of shedding and so the overall rate of transmission.
These high (often over the 150 ng/mL level where toxicity can affect some people) 25-hydroxyvitamin D protocols reliably suppress a very wide range of auto-immune inflammatory disorders which conventional medicine regards as untreatable, except perhaps at the margins with various, often pernicious, immune response suppressing drugs.
The Coimbra Protocol doctors explain this in vague terms along the lines of "vitamin D insensitivity", which makes no concrete sense. As far as I know, they are unaware of 25-hydroxyvitamin D intracrine (sometimes erroneously called "autocrine") and paracrine signaling.
This set of diseases includes multiple sclerosis, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, cluster headaches and migraine.
As far as I know, vitamin D researchers and clinicians (many are both) have no interest in, or awareness of, helminthic therapy - and likewise helminthic therapy researchers and clinicians have no interest in or awareness of how the immune system depends on 50 ng/mL or more circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.
So the Coimbra etc. protocol doctors don't realise that the diseases they are suppressing result, fundamentally, from *lack* of helminth infection (in susceptible individuals, due to genetic variation) and the helminthic therapy people don't realise they are battling up-hill with their worm therapies, since most of the people they are treating less circulating vitamin D3 than their immune system needs just to perform its basic functions.
For an explanation of how evolution in the presence of ubiquitous helminth infections caused our inflammatory (indiscriminate cell-destroying) immune responses, which are directed at multicellular parasites, to become excessively strong (when not down-modulated by the compounds helminths exude) see: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/06-adv/#02-helminths.
High 25-hydroxyvitamin D treatments are probably outside the areas of expertise of the IMA physicians, but these protocols are important and should at least be referred to.
The problem of excessive inflammation pervades many of the conditions the IMA develops protocols for, not least sepsis. (The current IMA Sepsis Protocol doesn't mention vitamin D, but it should - especially the Prof. Wimalawansa's calcifediol protocol.) The helminthic therapy theory reliably explains this as a result of evolution now followed by an absence of helminths.
New Jersey based Professor of Medicine Sunil Wimalawansa (ex. University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) has a new article on vitamin D at Mercola.com:
His recommendations for how much vitamin D3 to supplement, as a range of ratios of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity, are at 38:45.
My daughter is a surgical oncologist for head and neck. She was trained at top hospitals. She’s seen some things about hospital care these days that trouble her and she’s been criticized for pointing out areas that need improvement. Her boss pointed out that the place she works at is not like the top ENT residency hospital she was trained at. This increases my negative view of health care unfortunately. So I’m not surprised at what happened here, but to lose a child is devastating. What is tragic is that money is now more important than people.
PRAISING and THANKING ALMIGHTY GOD for raising up a COURAGEOUS, SACRIFICIAL, BRILLIANT Warrior/Hero like you, Dr. Kory!
I can personally attest to the fact that you and Dr. Marik's educational videos and the FLCCC protocols helped save the lives of 6 of my family members and myself when we caught the "wicked bad" Delta variant. Plus the two of you helped us choose WISELY to NOT get the COVID-19 shots.
People in the "pro-vaccine in all cases" camp will respond to this tragedy by saying – oh if only this little girl had just been vaccinated, she would still be alive today. But the reality in the Mennonite community in Texas is that they will no longer accept the MMR vaccine because they have seen their children die after receiving it. They have seen their children’s health destroyed by it as well. Refusing to understand that sometimes these vaccines are not the best strategy. Refusing to understand the fact that the deaths from measles in the US were near zero well before the first measles vaccine was introduced in 1963. Refusing to understand that well over 90% of all measles infections resolve without complication – leaving lifelong immunity to measles - which these vaccines do not confer. Further, studies suggest that recovery from a natural infection also may confer improvements to cardiovascular health later in life whereas the MMR vaccine - because, as multiple studies now demonstrate, it fails within 20 years of first injection, requires an unknown number of lifelong boosters which can themselves - due to repeat boosting, - damage the immune system. Declaring that any questioning of the safety or efficacy of the MMR vaccine is nothing but ignorant “anti-vaxxer” conspiracy theory. All of these refusals to think may have materially contributed to this little girl’s death. I assert that because it has been reported that almost every single page of Daisy’s medical record begins with the statement “UNVACCINATED.” How much did that one word cloud the differential diagnostic view of the attendings? Did they miss the E. Coli because all they could see was measles pneumonia? Or are they just blatantly incompetent in Lubbock, Texas. Both possibilities are probably true. Thank you for your expertise, honesty and wisdom Dr. Kory.
This has been a great article. Your dedication to finding what went wrong and what was done right is vitally important. Too bad reporters for rags like USA Today don't have the same ethics.
Have the hospitals become too complex? One hand (or department) not knowing what the other is doing? Too many drugs, but not enough proper guidelines. Fear of trying off label treatments since Covid where anything different than the orthodox treatment could lead to the doctor losing credentials and being fired? Public trust in the medical system is now damaged.
I agree with all, especially the "Fear of trying off-label treatments since Covid where anything different than the orthodox treatment could lead to the doctor losing credentials and being fired?"
Thank you, Dr. Kory, CHD and Drs. Edward and Bartlett for informing us and helping the children and families.
Just as there were Covid treatment protocols by the FLCCC and the McCullough group, I hope there will be measles protocols for parents and, more importantly, treating physicians to avoid these tragedies. Maybe under Bobby Kennedy's CDC, we can get a physician treatment protocol published. May you All be Divinely Guided and Protected.
This is important and well written. They were butchered by "healthcare," not a disease that, in the best circumstances, we all should be exposed to to improve our immunity.
So true, and the brilliant review and efforts to educate our world but this is happening every day in our hospitals using their unprecedented protocols that don't work for whatever reason, all over the world dictated by big Pharma instead of real front line doctors that save people.
Thank you to DOCTORS and educated humanitarians like you Dr YOHO,
Dr. Pierre Corry KORY
Dr. Susan Humphries Dr. Edwards
Dr. BARTLET?
Dr. Paul MerrickMARIK
DR. Thomas LEVY
Robert F Kennedy
CHD TV NETWORK
For continuing to educate humanity that there are safe alternatives to our captured and corrupt healthcare that are accessible to us. Continuing to pray for miracles for humanity as they are coming to fruition thanks to you and many more Frontline humanitarians
❤️🙏❤️
How to control one’s anguish and rage as you peel the onion?
This is the stuff of worst nightmares.
The gross ineptitude is appalling at best.
My heart goes out to you Pierre, knowing the hours you have spent here unraveling this mess with such a heavy heart.
I only hope you have a good physical outlet to release this pain.
Thank you for your brilliance and endless dedication here to the health of humanity and the fight against the machinations of “trusted science”.
You’re one of a kind. A David against Goliath. Yielding the stones of Truth.
A true Hero. Thank you, thank you!
May you find some comfort today.
Paula my friend, thank you.
I cried reading this article,
Sending you both big hugs!❤️
Side note, getting the HBOT chamber this week, time will tell..
Amen!
Dr Kory…..”Recent papers have documented significant decreases in Americans' trust in their hospitals and doctors (and media) compared to before Covid.” That statement for me and others I know is absolutely correct. I do not go to a doctor regularly for anything…(other than my pulmonologist who is watching some spots in my lungs….are they inflammation, infection, parasites? Don’t know…just watching).
I have decided at my age, (75 and on no medication other than vitamins) I’ll just go to urgent care when needed. I did establish with a regular MD but I am currently waiting to get in to have an inguinal hernia looked at….waiting for over 6 months. Unbelievable!
I thank God I am healthy!
Yes! My advice to my own patients is "avoid white coats and blue lights".
There are so many other options out there for you that are safer and more accessible, hopefully our front line people will reach out to you or you will see the solutions before you have to be treated by our current medical model so you can stay healthy, praying for miracles for you and all humanity
❤️🙏❤️ Thank you for reaching out and sharing❤️
Be wary of urgent care too. We’ve rarely been properly diagnosed or treated at urgent care (Oregon, perhaps better elsewhere?). Fortunately, haven’t needed urgent care in years. Very lucky!
Oh yes, I am…….sad to be so distrustful, isn’t it?
Grammy: I'm also dealing with an inguinal hernia, which began about a month ago. I'm following George Hirst's lessons for how he fixed his own hernia naturally without surgery. It's too early to tell whether his approach will work for me, but it's definitely worth checking out while you're waiting for MD support.
His Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MyNaturalHerniaCure
His Comfort-Truss product, which has been a huge help for me: https://comfort-truss.com/
Thanks so much. I will look it up!!
Where are you located that it takes that long to get in to be seen?
MO. I was trying to find an office that would not push the VAX. A friend told me about one older doctor there that was like-minded. His waiting list for new patients is over 5000!!!! Yes, 5000! So I took another doc in the office who was seeing new patients thinking they might have his same viewpoint!
Me too. But I wasn't so lucky. EVERYWHERE I went, vaccines were being pushed by EVERYONE. I finally raised my voice when I spoke "No." It abated, but still didn't stop. I carefully look at the faces of the nurses and doctors that insist I take the vaccine. And I see no humanity, despite their profession.
Are you all saying that Today, five years later, they are still pushing that Conviper thing before treating you? let me guess, the flu and shingles stick too?
Even Mayo Clinic's website lists the "advantages" of the quackcine.
Dr. K... Thanks for sharing this with us and for helping the families of these two victims. ...So very sad and unnecessary. Last year marked 50 years since I graduated from medical school (UT, Memphis, 1974), so I have seen some changes over the last half century!
My career went down an Ophthalmology path, but I remained interested in general medicine issues as I maintained a solo practice for 30 years. During that time, I became somewhat of a "go-to" expert for numerous med-mal cases in the Ophthalmology sphere. Most of the cases I consulted on proved to be simply unfortunate outcomes of eye surgery that rarely implicated surgeon error.
As life so often does, it relocated me to the PNW in 2012 where I continued in Ophthalmology for a couple of years (at UW), but soon diverted into cannabis medicine following the death of my son. Over the next few years, I once again became involved in consulting for numerous med-mal attorneys in the Seattle area. This time, there was a marked change in the findings. Almost every case I reviewed was riddled with failures in diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes - that, an old Ophthalmologist could easily spot! Quite disturbing.
IMO, this is a direct result of the corporatization of medicine/healthcare in this country. It started in the 80s and has now progressed to complete takeover of medicine. Medicine has been dehumanized and monetized to the point that there is no concern for actual patients or outcomes. The only concern is the bottom line.
Medical education is centered on producing compliant physicians who will work as obedient cogs in the corporate machine that is mainstream medicine. The profession has become mechanistic, reductionist, and truly anti-human. Young docs are trained to rely on technology - imaging, lab results, computer generated treatment protocols (usually profit and politics driven) - instead of their own reasoning. In addition, we have moved to a "team" approach in medicine where multiple physicians, nurses, paramedical personnel swarm around and over each other while failing to interact with each other for the patient's benefit. In fact, the main focus is patient "through put" (10 minutes per patient), minimizing appropriate testing (to save money), and maximizing reimbursement via "proper" coding (that is, coding that will maximize profit while staying just under the "fraud" radar).
I fully expect that most physicians will soon be replaced by AI generated entities who, of course, will be programmed to maximize profits for the usual zillionaires. In some ways, this is poetic as physicians in the US have abrogated their responsibilities to their patients by allowing the takeover of the profession by corporatists who offer often excessive salaries and promises of "decent" hours. The most compliant physicians, of course, end up in positions of power (licensing bodies, specialty boards, AMA, NIH, CDC, FDA, and corporate boards) where they are amply rewarded for their service.
The good/bad news about all of this is that the system is collapsing as I type. The COVID debacle has awakened many and, so, one hopes that there will be a re-building of something new and better for Humankind.
Please pardon the rant. Your post really triggered me...
Thank you again for your voice! Stand strong!
This is excellent. I am drafting a post on what I see are numerous issues with modern medicine - training curriculums, practice, technology expansion, training hour restrictions, coding, reimbursement, DEI, proliferation of lower cost NPs (please know I largely work with NPs in my practice, my partner is an NP who is one of the best clinicians I have seen, but my NP's are veteran nurses with tons of experience in nursing and as practitioners, now they are coming out of nursing school, do a couple of years and then become NP's, who poorly trained doctors then train - it is a mess. Your points above (and other readers below) are excellent and will be incorporated. Although I was not trained "in the days of the giants" like you (my intern year was one of the first with training hour limits), you guys were the real "residents" (i.e., docs who literally lived in the hospital). My transformation came in my first 2 years as an attending when I worked in a short-staffed Dept such that I was billing 250% of an average ICU doc - my hospital was worried at one point they would be investigated for fraud. But there was none. I literally was seeing so many patients and working so much it was crazy, I was commuting by train and would read up on my patients issues obsessively
Proud of you, Pierre!. I am not sure I qualify as a "giant", but I did know a few! Dinosaurs walked the earth back then and bleeding bowls and leeches were in vogue...
Yes... Many of the RNPs today are as well trained as the GPs of yore - and, I have been greatly impressed by some of the young naturopaths.
agree, agree, agree!
I would very much like to read your eventual post.
Oh yes you are absolutely correct!! On every issue you mentioned. I feel the rant too.... Let's not forget the independent pharmacies that have been blackballed out of their market share by collusion between insurance companies and corporate pharmacies such as walgreens etc. Add them to the list of professions who both took a knee for the payout or where forced out by no one fighting for it.
I'm a PT of almost 30 years and I have seen the quality of the new PTs decline even as our association pushed us in to a "doctorate" program (LOL doctorate.. it was the exact same licensing exam until 2020, probably still is the same). The only differences I have noticed is more loans due to increased cost, more hubris/entitlement since now they are "doctors" and significantly less diagnostic ability. At my PT school in 1994, all of my professors worked in the clinic to some degree AND of course all did research, which stretched them very thin. NOW if one wants to even be adjunct faculty anywhere the requirement "PhD with active grant applications or PhD pursuant". We can see where the priorities in educating our students lies.
I too am actually glad the system is imploding -- it may not be entirely too late since now the curtain has been yanked aside and the shell shocked puppets behind the Truman Show have been exposed. We can only hope and pray.....
Understand and agree... The insane licensure/certification thing (worthless CME programs, time-dated certifications, never-ending fees from licensing bodies and government) has now carried over into ALL healthcare fields and is largely a sham that is used to protect greed-based politically-motivated agendas that do NOTHING to improve patent care. It is primarily used by the controlling corporations (and, government agencies) to enforce compliance to particular profit schemes and to politically-driven control mechanisms that direct "political contributions" by the donor class back to the donors. We live in a literal mafia state.
I sympathize with those in PT (have several present and retired therapists as patients) as that profession has been commoditized as just another "profit center" for the boyz and girlz in the corporate board rooms.
Revolting and maddening.
Some of this I concluded over the years. Your write-up filled out the picture for me. Right now I am reading The Healing Hand Man and Wound in the Ancient World, a comprehensive work by Guido Majno. Ignorance and error in the early stages of medical care are understandable. Today though? The more things change the more they stay the same.
Indeed. Humans never seem to conquer hubris... One of those things like greed and envy that prevent us all from reaching our true potentials.
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Hospitals are dangerous environments. I’m a critical care nurse and I witness medical malfeasance regularly. We have one exceptional intensive care Doc and one fairly good one. The days they’re on, my patients are safe.
As the Chief of the Critical Care Service at the University of Wisconsin, if I wanted to know how good a new doctor was, all I had to do was ask the ICU nurses. They knew. There would be a collective groan when learning that certain doctors were "coming on service" each Monday.
You’re right about that.
May I be so brazen as to ask why they are not called out/yanked out, interrogated, sent to medical boot camp, or unlicensed? Is there a yearly review like the rest of us in the work environment go through? Where is the accountability and the statistical mapping of how each doctor's patient fared after being released? Thank you.
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In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is reasonable to assume that these children, like most of the population, have only a fraction of the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L = 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune systems need to function properly. The family of these children and the treating doctors are probably unaware of both this need and of the their child's likely far too low 25-hydroxyvitamin D level.
If they had had the 50 ng/mL or more level, there would have been a much reduced chance of the pervasive bacterial infections which ultimately killed them.
Please see the research cited and discussed regarding the vitamin D compounds and the immune system at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/. This includes a tutorial https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#02-compounds on 25-hydroxyvitamin D to calcitriol intracrine signaling, which is crucial to the ability of many types of immune cell to respond to the individual cell's changing circumstances. This, and the related paracrine signaling, must be understood by all medical professionals, immunologists, virologists, epidemiologists etc. if they are to understand generally, and for each person, why severe disease occurs and often persists, despite drug treatment. However, there is no peer-reviewed explanation of these signaling systems. Most medical professionals and immunologists have never heard of them, in part because they have been elucidated only in the last 15 to 20 years. These signaling systems are completely unrelated to hormonal signaling and are not affected by the very low - 0.05 to 0.1 ng/mL - level of circulating 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (calcitriol) which the kidneys produce and which acts as a hormone (long distance blood-borne signaling molecule) to alter the behavior of cells of multiple types in distant parts of the body which are involved in calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism.
This page begins with recommendations from New Jersey based Professor of Medicine, Sunil Wimalawansa on the average daily supplemental intake quantities of vitamin D3 which will attain least 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, over several months, without the need for blood tests or medical monitoring:
70 to 90 IU / kg body weight for those not suffering from obesity (BMI < 30).
100 to 130 IU / kg body weight for obesity I & II (BMI 30 to 39).
140 to 180 IU / kg body weight for obesity III (BMI > 39).
For 70 kg (154 lb) body weight without obesity, this is about 0.125 milligrams (125 micrograms 5000 IU) a day. This takes several months to attain the desired > 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D. This is 8 or more times what most governments recommend. "5000 IU" a day sounds like a lot, but it is a gram every 22 years - and pharma-grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram ex-factory.
These recommendations are included in a recent article with another professor of medicine Scott T. Weiss and professor of pediatrics Bruce W. Hollis: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/22/3969. All three have been researching vitamin D for decades.
There's very little vitamin D in food, whether it is fortified with vitamin D3 or the the less effective D2. While UV-B exposure of ideally white skin can produce plenty of vitamin D3, this is not available all year round far from the equator - and it always damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer.
Assuming a patient arrives in ICU and is reasonably suspected of having low 25-hydroxyvitamin D, even without a blood test and the hours or day or so required to get the results, the most important treatment of all (other than immediate hydration, prevention of shock, breathing support etc.) is to boost their circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level safely over 50 ng/mL.
One way to do this is a single bolus (loading) oral dose of vitamin D3, such as 10 mg (400,000 IU) for average weight adults. This is hydroxylated mainly in the liver, so about 1/4 of these molecules go into circulation as 25-hydroxyvitamin D. The trouble with this is that it takes days for most of this process to occur.
A far better approach is to use a single oral dose of calcifediol, which *is* 25-hydroxyvitamin D. This is more readily absorbed than vitamin D3 since it has two, rather than one, hydrophilic hydroxyl groups. It goes straight into circulation and so raises the level within a few hours. Prof. Wimalawansa recommends 0.014 milligrams per kg body weight, which is 1 milligram for average weight adults. See: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#4.7.
Dr Kory's analysis identifies treatment options which would probably have saved the lives of these children, in all the circumstances, and which were not enacted.
The children would probably never have had a severe measles infection with subsequent bacterial infection if they had 50 ng/mL circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D at the time of infection. So it could be argued that their deaths were due to lack of proper vitamin D3 supplementation (or, in theory, lack of sufficient UV-B skin exposure to attain this - but such levels of exposure are impractical and raise the risk of skin cancer).
Given their likely very low 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and the fact that this could have been boosted over days with readily available vitamin D3, or in hours with calcifediol, which is hard to obtain in the USA, we could also conclude with some confidence that the children died because of both initial inadequate 25-hydroxyvitamin D and the clinicians' failure to boost this over 50 ng/mL ASAP. It is possible that this treatment alone, without antibiotics, would have saved them. They would certainly tackle any infection much more strongly with 50 ng/mL than with the very common levels of 20 ng/mL, or 10 ng/mL. Some people have only 5 ng/mL, and some people - such as a subset of Arabic women in sunny Israel - have even less than 4 or 5 ng/mL, which is the limit of detection in blood tests. See the histograms of levels at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#israel .
Then see the graph of risk of post-operative infections (also, generally bacterial) according to 25-hydroxyvitamin D from the 2014 Quraishi et al. study at Massachusetts General Hospital: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#00-50ngmL.
Spot on! 100%. I know Sunil and totally agree that having sufficient Vitamin D stores would have prevented her month-long deterioration.
Thanks Dr Kory for all your great work and for supporting what I wrote.
I believe the IMA needs a Vitamin D Protocol, for all ages, body weights and degrees of obesity, based on Prof. Wimalawansa's recommendations for how much vitamin D3 to supplement, on average, per day and on his recommendations for using calcifediol (== 25-hydroxyvitamin D) or, if this is not available, bolus vitamin D3, to boost 25--hydroxyvitamin D levels in clinical emergencies.
It is critical that all medical professionals understand how the immune system relies on the circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level, and not at all on the very low level of circulating 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D calcitriol in order to function properly. Likewise that circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D diffuses into cells where it is the essential raw material for forming the calcitriol signaling molecule, in intracrine and paracrine signaling, which are completely different (within a single cell, and to nearby cells of typically different types, respectively) from the kidney driven hormonal use of circulating calcitriol.
The biochemistry is not complex, but it must be fully understood. Otherwise, people assume - as many do today - that the way to "boost the immune system" is to raise the very low level of circulating (hormonal) calcitriol. As Prof. Wimalawansa pointed out to the FLCCC in early 2022, this is not the way to improve immune system functioning, and would disturb calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism.
This Protocol would cover all people in ordinary life, including pregnant women and so their babes-to-be whose brains are building themselves in ways which clearly depend on adequate 25-hydroxyvitamin D, since low levels increase the incidence of ADHD etc. (likely including autism) and mental retardation: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2 as well as pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth and low birth weight. Also, in breast feeding, (where 25-hydroxyvitamin D from the mother goes straight into the infant's bloodstream, along with some vitamin D3 which must be hydroxylated, primarily, in the liver.
Long-term - for decades before old age - maintaining 50 ng/ml or more circulating vitamin D3 will greatly reduce the incidence of dementia: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3.
At all ages it reduces the risk of serious infectious and chronic disease, as well as the risk of cancer. Less severe viral and bacterial infections reduces the rate of shedding and so the overall rate of transmission.
I suggest the Protocol also refer to, even if it does not instruct in, the high 25-hydroxyvitamin D protocol of Cicero Coimbra and the similar protocols of Patrick McCullough and Pete Batcheller: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1575 and other research cited and discussed at https://vitamindstopscovid.info/06-adv/#01-higher.
These high (often over the 150 ng/mL level where toxicity can affect some people) 25-hydroxyvitamin D protocols reliably suppress a very wide range of auto-immune inflammatory disorders which conventional medicine regards as untreatable, except perhaps at the margins with various, often pernicious, immune response suppressing drugs.
The Coimbra Protocol doctors explain this in vague terms along the lines of "vitamin D insensitivity", which makes no concrete sense. As far as I know, they are unaware of 25-hydroxyvitamin D intracrine (sometimes erroneously called "autocrine") and paracrine signaling.
This set of diseases includes multiple sclerosis, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, cluster headaches and migraine.
The curious and scientifically crucially interesting thing is that much the same set of auto-immune inflammatory diseases is suppressed by introducing relatively benign helminth (intestinal worms) infections: https://helminthictherapywiki.org and https://vitamindstopscovid.info/06-adv/#02-helminths.
As far as I know, vitamin D researchers and clinicians (many are both) have no interest in, or awareness of, helminthic therapy - and likewise helminthic therapy researchers and clinicians have no interest in or awareness of how the immune system depends on 50 ng/mL or more circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.
So the Coimbra etc. protocol doctors don't realise that the diseases they are suppressing result, fundamentally, from *lack* of helminth infection (in susceptible individuals, due to genetic variation) and the helminthic therapy people don't realise they are battling up-hill with their worm therapies, since most of the people they are treating less circulating vitamin D3 than their immune system needs just to perform its basic functions.
For an explanation of how evolution in the presence of ubiquitous helminth infections caused our inflammatory (indiscriminate cell-destroying) immune responses, which are directed at multicellular parasites, to become excessively strong (when not down-modulated by the compounds helminths exude) see: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/06-adv/#02-helminths.
I have not yet updated this page to contain my suggestion for why really high 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels suppress these excessively strong inflammatory responses. See my comment which starts with "Further to . . . " at: https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/epstein-barr-link-to-multisystem/comments.
High 25-hydroxyvitamin D treatments are probably outside the areas of expertise of the IMA physicians, but these protocols are important and should at least be referred to.
The problem of excessive inflammation pervades many of the conditions the IMA develops protocols for, not least sepsis. (The current IMA Sepsis Protocol doesn't mention vitamin D, but it should - especially the Prof. Wimalawansa's calcifediol protocol.) The helminthic therapy theory reliably explains this as a result of evolution now followed by an absence of helminths.
New Jersey based Professor of Medicine Sunil Wimalawansa (ex. University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) has a new article on vitamin D at Mercola.com:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/04/13/everything-you-need-to-know-about-vitamin-d.aspx
This embeds a 56 minute video presentation for Grassroots Health https://www.grassrootshealth.net:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3rQSgV_6yo
His recommendations for how much vitamin D3 to supplement, as a range of ratios of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity, are at 38:45.
My daughter is a surgical oncologist for head and neck. She was trained at top hospitals. She’s seen some things about hospital care these days that trouble her and she’s been criticized for pointing out areas that need improvement. Her boss pointed out that the place she works at is not like the top ENT residency hospital she was trained at. This increases my negative view of health care unfortunately. So I’m not surprised at what happened here, but to lose a child is devastating. What is tragic is that money is now more important than people.
Weeping for these little girls and their families.💔
As a medical expert witness for over 40 years, I truly appreciate the excellent review
Thanks Leel - means a lot coming from you
I as a lay person appreciate Dr. Kory's easily understood explanation.
PRAISING and THANKING ALMIGHTY GOD for raising up a COURAGEOUS, SACRIFICIAL, BRILLIANT Warrior/Hero like you, Dr. Kory!
I can personally attest to the fact that you and Dr. Marik's educational videos and the FLCCC protocols helped save the lives of 6 of my family members and myself when we caught the "wicked bad" Delta variant. Plus the two of you helped us choose WISELY to NOT get the COVID-19 shots.
We are ETERNALLY GRATEFUL to both of you!
People in the "pro-vaccine in all cases" camp will respond to this tragedy by saying – oh if only this little girl had just been vaccinated, she would still be alive today. But the reality in the Mennonite community in Texas is that they will no longer accept the MMR vaccine because they have seen their children die after receiving it. They have seen their children’s health destroyed by it as well. Refusing to understand that sometimes these vaccines are not the best strategy. Refusing to understand the fact that the deaths from measles in the US were near zero well before the first measles vaccine was introduced in 1963. Refusing to understand that well over 90% of all measles infections resolve without complication – leaving lifelong immunity to measles - which these vaccines do not confer. Further, studies suggest that recovery from a natural infection also may confer improvements to cardiovascular health later in life whereas the MMR vaccine - because, as multiple studies now demonstrate, it fails within 20 years of first injection, requires an unknown number of lifelong boosters which can themselves - due to repeat boosting, - damage the immune system. Declaring that any questioning of the safety or efficacy of the MMR vaccine is nothing but ignorant “anti-vaxxer” conspiracy theory. All of these refusals to think may have materially contributed to this little girl’s death. I assert that because it has been reported that almost every single page of Daisy’s medical record begins with the statement “UNVACCINATED.” How much did that one word cloud the differential diagnostic view of the attendings? Did they miss the E. Coli because all they could see was measles pneumonia? Or are they just blatantly incompetent in Lubbock, Texas. Both possibilities are probably true. Thank you for your expertise, honesty and wisdom Dr. Kory.
This has been a great article. Your dedication to finding what went wrong and what was done right is vitally important. Too bad reporters for rags like USA Today don't have the same ethics.
Have the hospitals become too complex? One hand (or department) not knowing what the other is doing? Too many drugs, but not enough proper guidelines. Fear of trying off label treatments since Covid where anything different than the orthodox treatment could lead to the doctor losing credentials and being fired? Public trust in the medical system is now damaged.
I agree with all, especially the "Fear of trying off-label treatments since Covid where anything different than the orthodox treatment could lead to the doctor losing credentials and being fired?"
Thanks
Recent papers have documented significant decreases in Americans' trust in their hospitals and doctors (and media) compared to before Covid.
- Born in 1960
- My three siblings and I had measles
- Every kid I knew had measles
- We all recovered and have life-long immunity
- The measles vaccine does not provide life-long immunity
I was around 10-11 in the mid 60's when measles got most of our boarding school.
We unspotted still had classes.... and the diseased did LOTS of homework. ! No one died and the Nuns totally managed without Doctors.
This is appalling what is going on in some hospitals. It has to be all money driven but how do these medical people live with themselves?
This is just heartbreaking to read.
Thank you, Dr. Kory, CHD and Drs. Edward and Bartlett for informing us and helping the children and families.
Just as there were Covid treatment protocols by the FLCCC and the McCullough group, I hope there will be measles protocols for parents and, more importantly, treating physicians to avoid these tragedies. Maybe under Bobby Kennedy's CDC, we can get a physician treatment protocol published. May you All be Divinely Guided and Protected.