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I don't understand how this is going to work. Millions of people worldwide have taken billions of doses of this drug. Even during peak covid, in Europe and As

I don't understand how this is going to work. Millions of people worldwide have taken billions of doses of this drug. Even during peak covid, in Europe and Asian, 100s of millions of doses were being donated to potentially help. And now this person is suing because what?

zabzonk 3y ago
i doubt that this case specifically will get anywhere (ianal, ianad) but certainly prescribing drugs to treat non-existent symptoms should have some come-back. hippocratic oath and all that?
add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
Millions of people take Tylenol safely, do you think that gives just anyone impunity to prescribe it for just anything, even unsafely, when their motive comes from profit, culture war, or conspiracy exploitation?
badlucklottery 3y ago
> And now this person is suing because what? It sounds like this doctor in particular was running a pill mill catering to the conspiracy crowd. I suppose we'll find out what role America’s Frontline Doctors played in all of this soon enough.
micahflee 3y ago
Hydroxychloroquine has dangerous side effects for people with heart abnormalities, and shouldn't be prescribed without first determining if it's safe. The FDA warned about this in 2020, and also warned doctors to not prescribe it for COVID-19 since it's shown to be ineffective at treating it: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c... The doctor never should have prescribed hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 because it was ineffective and the medical community already knew it at the time, and if they were going to they should have done a physical exam or taken labs to determine if it was safe first, and they didn't.
trehalose 3y ago
Like many commonly used, potentially life-saving medications, hydroxychloroquine has contraindications--circumstances in which it is not safe to prescribe. Hydroxychloroquine in particular can cause fatal cardiac arrhythmias in people with certain heart abnormalities that may be diagnosed with a stethoscope or EKG. (That's not its only contraindication, but it seems to be the one relevant to this lawsuit.) > The wrongful death lawsuit claims that Culver never performed a physical examination of Parker, then 52 years old, nor did she run any diagnostic tests to ensure that drug would be safe to prescribe. There are plenty of medications that are prescribed to millions of people but still aren't safe to prescribe to just anyone. Sometimes doctors must weigh risks against benefits and prescribe hazardous medications, but I hope you'd agree they shouldn't just... not make the simplest effort to check for known risk factors?

zabzonk 3y ago

i doubt that this case specifically will get anywhere (ianal, ianad) but certainly prescribing drugs to treat non-existent symptoms should have some come-back. hippocratic oath and all that?

add-sub-mul-div 3y ago

Millions of people take Tylenol safely, do you think that gives just anyone impunity to prescribe it for just anything, even unsafely, when their motive comes from profit, culture war, or conspiracy exploitation?

badlucklottery 3y ago

> And now this person is suing because what? It sounds like this doctor in particular was running a pill mill catering to the conspiracy crowd. I suppose we'll find out what role America’s Frontline Doctors played in all of this soon enough.

micahflee 3y ago

Hydroxychloroquine has dangerous side effects for people with heart abnormalities, and shouldn't be prescribed without first determining if it's safe. The FDA warned about this in 2020, and also warned doctors to not prescribe it for COVID-19 since it's shown to be ineffective at treating it: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c... The doctor never should have prescribed hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 because it was ineffective and the medical community already knew it at the time, and if they were going to they should have done a physical exam or taken labs to determine if it was safe first, and they didn't.

trehalose 3y ago

Like many commonly used, potentially life-saving medications, hydroxychloroquine has contraindications--circumstances in which it is not safe to prescribe. Hydroxychloroquine in particular can cause fatal cardiac arrhythmias in people with certain heart abnormalities that may be diagnosed with a stethoscope or EKG. (That's not its only contraindication, but it seems to be the one relevant to this lawsuit.) > The wrongful death lawsuit claims that Culver never performed a physical examination of Parker, then 52 years old, nor did she run any diagnostic tests to ensure that drug would be safe to prescribe. There are plenty of medications that are prescribed to millions of people but still aren't safe to prescribe to just anyone. Sometimes doctors must weigh risks against benefits and prescribe hazardous medications, but I hope you'd agree they shouldn't just... not make the simplest effort to check for known risk factors?