05-21-2020, 12:58 AM
(05-20-2020, 06:17 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It's amazing how you've got it all figured out.
It’s amazing how quickly you have abandoned your do no harm argument.
Professional medical organizations which monitor research and make recommendations for best practices certainly help. The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Food and Drug Administration, Infectious Disease Society of America, American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institute of Health, among others all recommend against the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 except in an inpatient setting and as part of a clinical trial.
That does not include as an outpatient prophylaxis and doing so flies in the face of the “standard of care” and best practices. To put that in Army vernacular, Trump’s doctor is out their flappin’.
Let’s just ignore who is promoting this and what he is promoting. When a patient requests a medication with no proven benefit for a particular problem with real adverse effects that could result in death the provider needs to tell that patient “no” for their own benefit.
This is what the Society of Critical Care Medicine has to say . . .
Quote:We currently have an ethical responsibility as leaders in our field to be prominent, speak out against misinformation, and deliver the facts.
https://journals.lww.com/ccejournal/Fulltext/2020/04000/Fact_Versus_Science_Fiction__Fighting_Coronavirus.15.aspx