Guy who demanded quack medicine has died...

[Archae]

Even money the family will now sue the hospital.

COVID-19 patient dies amid family’s legal battle to get him ivermectin

SUGAR LAND, Texas (KTRK) - A 74-year-old COVID patient in Texas, who was at the center of a legal battle over his hospital treatment, has died.

Pete Lopez, 74, died at Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital after battling COVID-19 for almost a month. The Vietnam War veteran was put on a ventilator Aug. 19.

Lopez’s family sued the hospital after it refused to give him the drug ivermectin, which is a de-worming drug primarily used in large animals like cows and horses. A judge ordered the hospital to administer the drug, but according to the family, the hospital still refused.

https://www.wbay.com/2021/09/08/covid-19-patient-dies-amid-familys-legal-battle-get-him-ivermectin/

[lark]

1. Now they will sue the hospital and in TX could easily win if one of the TT* judges is in charge.

Total assholes that they are.

TT = Texas Taliban

[Aristus]

8. Judge: "Doctor, is the use of ivermectin for treating COVID-19 infection considered

standard-of-care in the practice of medicine?"

Doctor: "No, Your Honor."

Judge: "Case dismissed."

[Harker]

12. That's the way it should be resolved. n/t

[Aristus]

13. Unless they get some hillbilly hangin' judge.

I don't know if it is like this anymore, but in Texas, judges were once elected to the bench, and no training in the law was required. The judge who presided at the trial of Jack Ruby, who killed Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, was just a good ole boy who won an election to the judgeship. A reading of the trial transcript reveals his hopeless incompetence as a trial judge.

[3catwoman3]

32. Even legal training is no guarantee.

Louie Gohmert. Need I say more.

That this yahoo was ever a judge makes my blood run cold.

[Aristus]

34. No kidding...

[SmittyWerben]

18. Texas put in medical malpractice torte reform in 2003

with low limit on "pain and suffering" that can be paid out. Lawyers won't usually go after medical malpractice because the payout is not worth the time and expense. I found this out through the experience of a friend of mine.

[SergeStorms]

33. And I'm willing to bet....

it hasn't reduced the premiums Doctor's pay for malpractice insurance one dime.

"Tort reform" was just another republican scam to keep bad Doctors practicing, and to put more campaign cash in politicians' pockets.

[SmittyWerben]

41. You are right, it did not

I seems to have only slowed the increases a bit...

[catrose]

47. Part of the formula for damages depends on possible future earnings.

At age 74, that number won't be high.

[CottonBear]

2. Well, bye. NT

[Wounded Bear]

5. Well, bye...

[33taw]

3. Why did he go to the hospital? If it was prescribed, he could have taken it at home.

Hospitals follow strict protocols for treatment, if you want alternative medicine the hospital is not the place to go.

[Walleye]

4. Then he could've used his own home built ventilator

[33taw]

10. Hook up to his tailpipe.

[jaxexpat]

27. That would never work.

The cars these days use unleaded fuel. Again with the !

[KS Toronado]

25. Yea, make your own with a garden hose!

[jrthin]

6. Excellent question. I agree with your post.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Should have tried his local veterinary office, I guess.

[33taw]

9. Vets are getting slammed with this request. It is so stupid.

[Cracklin Charlie]

11. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything more stupid.

And I’ve seen some stupid stuff.

[Celerity]

19. give it time, just give it time

[blogslug]

43. I could be wrong

As I recall, it was his wife who asked for Ivermectin treatment for her husband after he was hospitalized.

[33taw]

45. Not sure, but if she is his MPOA - she could have had him released to home for treatment there.

[Rural_Progressive]

14. No one was forcing him to stay in this hospital

If he and his family were unhappy with the care he was receiving then the family should have had him transferred to a facility that would care for him the way they wished.

You know, free markets and all that stuff.

[SergeStorms]

38. Veterinarians usually refuse....

customers who won't fit in a standard sized kennel. I'm guessing this man was too large for a veterinarian's 2 1/2 ft. X 3 ft. cage.

MAGAts are the stereotypical "dumb animals".

[Chainfire]

15. The next time I go to the hospital, maybe I will demand Hemlock for treatment.

It they don't give it to me and I die, my family can sue. If they do give it to me and I die, my family can sue. A win-win.

[packman]

17. Hemlock, hell no - demand the Elixir of Life or Ambrosia of the Gods

and when they don't have it and you die, then let your family sue.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. People are frightened & desperate but to think modern medicine mistakes COVID for worms is insanity

Medical doctors are qualified to evaluate illness. MAGA has only witch doctors.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. "His family declined to say whether he was vaccinated against the virus."

I'll take that as a no. He also had a history of heart disease.

[Treefrog]

44. Yeah, usually it's mentioned if someone was vaxxed.

No comment generally means no.

[OriginalGeek]

21. His family should sue the quacks that convinced him not to get vaccinated*

and that ivermectin was the way to go thereby delaying more traditional treatment.


*Family won't say if he was vaxxed so I'm just assuming not.

[cilla4progress]

22. That case was in

Ohio?

[Botany]

23. "A judge ordered the hospital to administer the drug but the hospital still refused."

Yes, because it is a hospital not a large animal vet clinic.

So a Texas dumb ass who refused the vaccine and then he got sick and died.

[multigraincracker]

24. Dang hospital didn't even

call in a Chiropractor Doctor.

[griloco]

26. Good Grief, People!!! It's HorsePaste! Available OTC at fine retail establishments everywhere

https://images.app.goo.gl/d6uTKyWiBF28yPiKA

[Initech]

28. Consult your local feed store today!

[Initech]

29. I'm shocked, shocked! Well not that shocked.

[Ohio Joe]

30. I'm tempted to throw out the old 'play stupid games...' but...

The virus is not playing.

I thought at some point the marks would wake up to that simple fact but... I guess not. That only means one thing... At some point the virus will be declared a weapon of the left that is targeting them for their politics. I have no doubt that CT is coming to a magat near you soon.

[tblue37]

39. It's already been trotted out by at least one guy.

[FakeNoose]

31. Well ... who didn't see THIS coming?

[Happy Hoosier]

35. AMF, NT

[Traildogbob]

36. Survived Viet Nam

But succumbed to the AmirKKKan jungles of stupid. The most potent enemy any of our veterans ever faced. Lies and blind trust of power hungry thieves. Over 10 times the deaths of Vietnam in 1.5 years. Many more to come.

[11 Bravo]

37. Feces occurs.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. Who is surprised by this?

[liberal_mama]

42. In my area (Western NY), a hospital was sued to give a patient Ivermectin, but the hospital lost

The person was given the ivermectin and she did recover, but it could have been just a coincidence.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/politics/2021/01/20/covid-patient-out-of-hospital-after-court-order-to-get-experimental-treatment

[traitorsgalore]

46. The worms will get him now

Maybe his family will poop their guts out after taking ivermectin and then sue the makers of ivermectin.

[Goodheart]

48. Oh my god! That judge and that hospital killed that man!

Their protocol denied him the ivermectin that would have saved his life!

It's not COVID that's killing people, it's the protocols!

/sarcasm

[GulfCoast66]

49. To think 2 years ago I was an empathetic Liberal. Now I'm still a liberal...

But don’t care that this fucker is dead. One less brain dead Republican voter. Would not care if it took his wife.

Every republican I know is vaccinated. But then a few of them are no longer republicans and they are co-workers. Not real friends. And I don’t hang with evangelicals or hard core right wing folks. Avoid them like the plague.

[maxsolomon]

50. Not the same dude who got it prescribed in Ohio.

A judge backed that scrip up too, and the hospital also refused.