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Doctor Says He Was Fired For Trying To Treat COVID Patients With Ivermectin

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/doctor-says-he-was-fired-for-trying-to-treat-covid-19-patients-with-ivermectin_4153096.html
https://rumble.com/vqfpkq-ivermectin-gets-doctor-fired-banned-from-hospital-grounds-patients-left-to-.html
https://www.wlox.com/2021/12/08/miss-doctor-says-he-was-fired-prescribing-patients-ivermectin/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/dying-covid-19-patient-recovers-after-court-orders-hospital-to-administer-ivermectin_4130754.html

A Mississippi doctor said he was fired for attempting to treat
COVID-19 patients with ivermectin, which is approved by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) to treat parasites, although the hospital in
question said he was not an employee but instead was an independent
contractor.

Dr. John Witcher, an emergency room physician at the Baptist Memorial
Hospital in Yazoo City, said was “told not to come back” after taking
several COVID-19 patients off Remdesivir, which is approved by the FDA
to treat the virus, and allowed them to use ivermectin.

    “I was very surprised that I was basically told to not come back
at the end of the day,” Witcher said on the Stew Peters podcast.

    “These patients were under my direct care, and so I felt like
taking them off Remdesivir and putting them on ivermectin was the
right thing to do at the time.”

Baptist Memorial told news outlets that Witcher “no longer practices
medicine as an independent physician” at the Yazoo City facility,
adding that he was an independent contractor, not an employee at the
facility.

The hospital system said that it follows “the standards of care
recommended by the scientific community and our medical team in the
prevention and treatment of COVID-19” such as vaccines and monoclonal
antibody treatments.

But Witcher said that he was working at the Baptist Memorial emergency
room when three new COVID-19 patients arrived on Dec. 10. They were
prescribed Remdesivir, but Witcher said that he has concerns about the
drug.

    “I was there at the hospital for three days straight in the ER and
so I felt like this would be a good opportunity to try ivermectin on
these inpatient patients that I had been following very closely and
just see how well it worked,” Witcher remarked.

The hospital couldn’t prescribe ivermectin, he said, adding that he
had to call a local pharmacy.

The pharmacy, Witcher said, then delivered the drug to the hospital
and switched their prescriptions from Remdesivir to ivermectin.

However, according to Witcher, Baptist Memorial severed ties with him
before he could administer the ivermectin.

    “There’s a first time for everything, but I wouldn’t say it was
experimental,” he said.

    “There’s been plenty of evidence with patients right here in
Mississippi that have taken ivermectin, and they’ve done well.”

There have been reports of severe COVID-19 cases recovering from the
disease after taking ivermectin, a relatively inexpensive drug
compared to Remdesivir. A lawyer for the family of a 71-year-old man,
Son Ng, told The Epoch Times earlier this month that Ng’s life was
“most definitely” saved by taking ivermectin “because his condition
changed right immediately after” he took the drug.

Baptist Memorial didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.