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Woman Escapes COVID-19 Hospital Treatment Protocols, Says Others Not So Lucky

Over a week after Gail Seiler’s physician had given her a terminal
diagnosis, her husband, Brad Seiler, wheeled her out of the back door
of the hospital where she had been admitted for COVID-19 on Dec. 3,
2021.

“I’m so sorry, Mrs. Seiler, but you are going to die,” she recalled
her physician telling her on Dec. 5.

On Dec. 15, despite resistance from hospital staff, Brad extracted
Seiler from Medical City Plano hospital in Plano, Texas, where the
couple lives.

Seiler is one of the few patients who has lived to tell her story
about what she said she witnessed on the inside with COVID-19 hospital
treatment protocols.

“It became clear to me that people are not dying in hospitals from
COVID. They are dying from these protocols,” Seiler told The Epoch
Times.

Seiler went in for a monoclonal antibody infusion with the request
that she be given the early-treatment protocols prescribed through the
Front Line Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), which included the use of
ivermectin and budesonide.

However, when staff discovered she was unvaccinated, “the whole tone
changed,” she said.

“I quickly lost the right to advocate for my own medical care,” she said.
‘I Didn’t Come Here to Die’

After a 26-hour wait, she finally got a bed in the intensive care unit
(ICU), but no family members were allowed to visit, she said.

This is where she met Dr. Giang Quach, the physician who told her she
was going to die because she was unvaccinated, she said.

“I told him, ‘I didn’t come here to die,’” she said.

Seiler said Quach pushed her to take remdesivir, a drug known to cause
kidney failure. She repeatedly asked for a different doctor, but her
pleas went unanswered and Quach remained in charge of her care, she
said.

In 2018, President Donald Trump signed the Right to Try Act into law,
which allowed patients with life-threatening diseases who have
exhausted all other options to try certain unapproved treatments.

Because Quach had given Seiler a terminal diagnosis, she was entitled
to try FLCCC protocols to treat COVID-19, but the hospital denied her
those treatments, she said.

Quach also denied Seiler her right to see a priest to administer her
last rites, she said.

So, Seiler made a deal with Quach, she said.

She said she would submit to a round of remdesivir if Quach let her
see her priest for final sacraments.

Quach agreed, and Seiler was allowed to see her priest, she said.

“Then, we denied the remdesivir,” Seiler said. “They were pretty angry
about it, but honestly, I felt I was in a fight for my soul. When the
priest left, I had this renewed feeling that I was going to live and
not be killed.”
Epoch Times Photo Gail Seiler’s last day at the hospital in 2021.
(Courtesy of Gail Seiler)
‘Every Day I Would Tell Them I’m Not a DNR’

Every day, Seiler said, she made it known that she did not want Quach
in charge of her care and insisted on seeing a different provider, but
Quach always returned.

Seiler’s daughter had access to her online records, where she found
that Seiler was classified as Do Not Resuscitate (DNR), she said.

Seiler said she was not supposed to be listed as DNR.

“The scariest part of it was every day I would tell them I’m not a
DNR, but them telling me I’m a DNR,” Seiler said.

In order to be resuscitated, Seiler said, hospital staff told her she
had to go on the ventilator, the final stage for many who have
reported similar hospital stories that ended in death.

Each of the standard treatment protocols for COVID-19, beginning with
remdesivir and ending with the ventilator, are reimbursed with
lucrative payoffs from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS), leading many to believe this is the reason hospitals continue
to use these protocols while denying early treatment.

In a Sept. 7 conference titled “Remdesivir Death: Landmark Lawsuit” in
Fresno, California, two attorneys announced lawsuits against three
hospitals for what they allege are the hospitals using remdesivir
without informed consent, leading to wrongful death.

The lawsuit addressed what the attorneys called “the remdesivir
protocol,” in which the patients may be admitted to the hospital—often
for problems unrelated to COVID-19—and then diagnosed with COVID-19 or
COVID pneumonia.

The patients are then isolated and malnourished before being told
remdesivir is their only treatment option, according to the lawsuit.

The patients are also placed on a BiPap machine, which uses pressure
to push oxygen into the lungs at a high rate, the lawsuit says, with
the patients’ hands often tied down so they can’t remove it.

The final stage of the protocol is intubation, at which point the
patients die an average of nine days after being admitted, the lawsuit
states.

In the end, the hospital can get up to $500,000 in reimbursement per
patient for the protocol, according to the lawsuit.
‘Things Just Got Worse’

Seiler goes into more detail about her story on the FormerFedsGroup
Freedom Foundation’s COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal Memory Project.

She became the Texas chairperson for the foundation, where she gathers
stories similar to hers to submit to the project’s documented cases.

The foundation also offers multiple online support group meetings
where others can tell their stories.

The number of people who say they’ve had family members die in
hospitals at the hands of what they call the “death protocols”
continues to surface. However, for many of them, their loved ones’
deaths left them with inconceivable stories of administrative cruelty.

Patients and families are scared into accepting treatment such as
remdesivir without being informed about the risks such as kidney
failure.

Families have reported that physicians will tell them that the patient
needs oxygen and rest, then the oxygen is used to such a high degree
that later a ventilator is required because the lungs are damaged.

When a patient tries to remove the BiPap mask, they are deemed
agitated and given sedatives, leaving them at the mercy of hospital
staff, many reported, while being denied access to basic nutrition,
hygiene, and exercise.

For Seiler, the lack of nutrition caused hair loss, and she developed
a fungal infection called thrush because no one removed her BiPap mask
to clean her mouth, she said.

Seiler said the doctors and nurses wouldn’t allow her to even sit up,
resulting in bed sores, and she eventually lost her ability to walk.

After two days on a catheter that she said was forced on her because
nurses told her they couldn’t take her to the bathroom, she got
another infection from the catheter.

“Things just got worse,” Seiler said. “People were dying around me in
other rooms. Quite frankly, it was quite scary, and I knew that time
was short.”
‘I’m Going to Take You Out of There’

On Dec. 14, 2021, Seiler’s husband, a former nurse and U.S. Army
veteran, called 911 to have the Plano Police Department perform a
welfare check, she said.

When the police officer arrived, Seiler said she attempted to explain
to him what she had experienced.

“I told him they’re going to murder me,” she said. “He said, ‘We don’t
have a protocol for this,’ and he left.”

Having exhausted all other options, Brad Seiler and Seiler’s
daughter—who had been contacting politicians for help—came up with a
plan to get her out of the hospital and take her home.

Brad Seiler set up oxygen and obtained medications with the help of a
home consultation service and Dr. Richard Bartlett’s protocols, which
emphasize the use of budesonide, she said.

On Dec. 15, Brad called and told her, “I’m going to take you out of there.”

Brad arrived with a cease-and-desist letter and two pieces of
patients’ rights legislation, written to allow access to at least one
visitor: Texas Senate Bill 572 and Senate Bill 2211.

The state’s House and Senate bills prohibit hospitals from denying
visitation, including clergy visitation, during disasters such as the
COVID-19 pandemic.

Seiler said Quach found a loophole in the House bill where it says the
doctor can write an order for five days limiting visitation to one
person, and then renew that order.

“And that’s what Dr. Quach had done to keep me isolated,” she said.
“Still, Quach broke the premise of that bill, because I wasn’t allowed
any visitors.”

The Senate bill, which was written by state Sen. Bob Hall, permits a
spiritual counselor, she said.

This was written to include family members, which is why Brad was
brandishing the legislation—to invoke himself as the spiritual head of
the family, Seiler said.
Epoch Times Photo Gail Seiler’s progress in getting off the mask,
2022. (Courtesy of Gail Seiler)
‘I Anticipate There Will be Future Hearings’

Hall, who was involved in making calls to the hospital to petition for
Seiler’s care, has been outspoken against “the commandeering of
medical practices by the government.”

In June 2022, the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services
held a hearing where families testified about their loved ones’
experiences with the medical system during the pandemic.

In a statement to The Epoch Times, Hall said he anticipates future
hearings after the committee heard the personal testimonies.

“Patients and doctors must be empowered to make decisions on treatment
protocols without fear of threats and intimidation if they differ from
government-mandated procedures,” Hall said.

It was the persistence of Seiler’s husband and daughter, Hall said,
that made Seiler “one of the few hospital COVID patients to get out of
the hospital in time to survive.”

Echoing Seiler’s earlier statement, Hall said “more people died in
hospitals like Medical City Plano because of hospital policies, than
died of COVID.”

In a statement to The Epoch Times, a Medical City Plano spokesperson
said that “like other hospitals in our area, our hospital relies on
licensed, independent physicians who use their extensive training and
experience to assess patients’ needs and determine the course of
treatment. We support our physicians by giving them information and
resources, including the latest research to help them provide the best
possible care to our patients.”

Of the many consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the erosion of
confidence in the medical profession’s “best possible care” has been
the most damaging, Hall said.

“The circumstances triggered a number of egregious policies and
practices never before seen in our modern hospitals,” Hall said.
“Patients were isolated from their families and loved ones,
intimidated or coerced into receiving medical protocols with which
they disagreed, and in some cases, outright neglected.
Government-mandated protocols, which did more harm than good, added
fuel and distrust to the fire.”
‘I Know for Certain I Will Die at Your Hands’

Brad Seiler had gone beyond the stage of distrust when he entered the
hospital and somehow charged his way into the ICU as security chased
him, Gail Seiler said.

When told to leave, Brad told staff, “You’re not going to murder my
wife. She’s coming home with me,” Seiler said.

>From there, it became almost like an all-day hostage negotiation,
Seiler said, with six police officers who were there not to help them,
but to make Brad leave.

Hall got involved, telling Brad not to resist if officers were to
arrest him, Seiler said, while one of the doctors told her that if she
were to leave with Brad, she would die.

“I told her that if I died tonight, ‘I’d prefer it be with Brad trying
to save me rather than die at your hands because I know for certain I
will die at your hands,’” Seiler said.
Epoch Times Photo Police were present when Gail Seiler’s husband
negotiated with the hospital so Gail would be allowed to leave Medical
City Plano hospital in Plano, Texas, in 2021. (Courtesy of Gail
Seiler)

Seiler needed a wheelchair because her legs didn’t work due to a lack
of physical therapy, she said.

When she was packed and ready to leave, Seiler said the floor nurse
led them out through what he called “the shortcut,” which turned out
to be the way through the morgue where the funeral homes pick up
bodies.

“I think it was to send us a message,” Seiler said.
‘A Medical Matrix’

Despite the physician telling Brad Seiler that his wife wouldn’t make
it 24 hours if she left the hospital, she lives today to tell her
story.

It wasn’t easy, Gail Seiler said, and her healing at home had more to
do with recovering from her experience at the hospital than from the
virus itself.

However, it was Bartlett’s treatment that saved her life, she said.

“Everything he put in place works,” she said. “I started to improve right away.”

The Seilers later contacted their state representative who contacted
Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct an investigation, Gail
said.

HHS assigned the investigation to the hospital, which concluded that
the hospital had “done a stellar job,” Gail said.

“No one contacted us, and they certainly didn’t look at our medical
records because—if anything—even making someone a DNR when they tell
you they aren’t a DNR is against the law, right?” Sieler said.

The Seilers were sure no one would believe their story, but as they
continued to tell it on podcast and radio interviews, more and more
people contacted them to share their own experiences.

Seiler managed to escape the hospital and recover, but she said most
of the stories she hears from other people don’t have happy endings,
leaving those families wracked with guilt when they realize what took
place.

The majority of the cases have ended in the death of the patient,
Seiler said, with the family only realizing they had been gaslit after
it was over.

“What we’re seeing is doctors aren’t being honest with the patient,
and by the time you realize they’re harming you, you’ve not only been
harmed, you’ve also been gaslit, and you can’t just leave,” Seiler
said. “You’re on a high flow of oxygen and you’re told if you leave,
you’ll die. If you get intubated, the only way out is to be
transferred to another hospital.”

Patients have generally had the right to advocate for their own
medical treatment, and even deny recommendations, but with the
emergency declarations related to COVID, hospital staff have been
given authority over patients they’ve historically not had, Seiler
said.

In some cases, patients have been given remdesivir and other
medications not only without informed consent but also after the
patient had put in writing that they didn’t want the drug, Seiler
said.

Despite this overreach being exercised in hospitals, Brad and the
Seiler’s daughter was able to bring enough attention to the case
through networking with Hall and Lt. Col. Allen West, Seiler said.

West had also been treated there and—in addition to Hall—made several
calls to the hospital on the Seilers’ behalf, which Seiler said she
suspects is why staff had to eventually acquiesce to letting Brad
remove her.

The Seilers were also helped by the legal team of Paul M. Davis &
Associates in Frisco, Texas, a firm that’s representing clients who
have also gone through the hospital protocols.

There have been cases in which people have just walked out, but they
are rare, Seiler said.

“Once you enter the hospital, you’re in this medical matrix, and the
only way out is through death or if someone comes and takes you out,”
Seiler said.

Today, Seiler’s mission is to bring awareness by sharing her story and
the stories of others, she said.

“My goal is to keep people out of hospitals because this truly is a
hospital holocaust.”