Dead: Covid patient whose wife won court order for Ivermectin

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50. But, but...he was in the best possible hands.

-Dr Farrag - member of the nutjobs Frontline doctors
-Wife 'monitoring' his condition
Can't believe anything could possibly go wrong.


snip....But he (the judge) further ordered that UPMC “shall allow either Dr. Tarik Farrag, MD, or another physician or a registered nurse, who must be licensed by the state Board of Medicine, under the guidance and supervision of (Farrag) to have patient access to...Keith Smith, for the sole and limited purpose of administering ivermectin, as prescribed by Dr. Farrag, to Mr. Smith at the UPMC hospital facility from time to time.”
Confusion reigns

That’s where the confusion comes in. UPMC’s attorney, Thomas Chairs, questioned whether Farrag was licensed in Pennsylvania. Darla searched the state Department of State website and found that he has a temporary license to practice in the state. (Farrag practices in southern Alabama and is affiliated with an online pharmacy.)

Darla had driven to Paoli to fill the prescription, at a cost of $576. She had to find someone to administer it. State Rep. Dawn Keefer, a Dillsburg Republican, put her in touch with a husband and wife doctor team, who, in turn, put her in touch with a registered nurse who could administer the drug.

On Saturday, Dec. 4, she went to the hospital to assess her husband’s condition. His lungs were improving, but his kidneys and liver were failing. He was on blood thinners that caused some bleeding in his esophagus. His feeding tube had been turned off when he had a CT scan and ultrasound examination.

She needed to know whether his internal bleeding had stopped, whether the feeding tube had been restored and whether he was scheduled for dialysis. Darla said she couldn’t give him the drug before dialysis because it would then be filtered out of his bloodstream.

Everything fell into place, and Saturday afternoon, Darla called the RN to come to the hospital to administer the drug. She stayed on the phone with the nurse as she entered the hospital, fearing that she would meet resistance.

more backstory here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-wins-court-battle-over-170915572.html