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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

UPDATED: Are You Sitting Down?

Good--because I wouldn't want the shock from this to cause you to fall down and hurt yourself.

What a difference an Election Hoax can make--in medical science, no less! From the:

Nov 2020 Special Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates - Handbook Addendum

It turns out the American Medical Association passed the following Resolution--HCQ is good:


Resolution: 509 (November 2020)

Page 3 of 6

Whereas, The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious medical issue, people are dying, and physicians must be able to perform as sagacious prescribers; therefore be it 

RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association rescind its statement calling for physicians to stop prescribing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine until sufficient evidence becomes available to conclusively illustrate that the harm associated with use outweighs benefit early  in the disease course. Implying that such treatment is inappropriate contradicts AMA Policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” that addresses off label prescriptions as appropriate in the judgement of the prescribing physician (Directive to Take Action); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA rescind its joint statement with the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health System Pharmacists, and update it with a joint statement notifying patients that further studies are ongoing to clarify any potential benefit of hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for the treatment of COVID-19 (Directive to  Take Action); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA reassure the patients whose physicians are prescribing hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for their early-stage COVID-19 diagnosis by issuing an updated statement clarifying our support for a physician’s ability to prescribe an  FDA21 approved medication for off label use, if it is in her/his best clinical judgement, with  specific reference to the use of hydroxychloroquine and combination therapies for the treatment of the earliest stage of COVID-19 (Directive to Take Action); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA take the actions necessary to require local pharmacies to fill valid prescriptions that are issued by physicians and consistent with AMA principles articulated in AMA Policy H-120.988, “Patient Access to Treatments Prescribed by Their Physicians,” including working with the American Pharmacists Association and American Society of Health System Pharmacists. (Directive to Take Action) 


Is there some way to put these people on the SCOTUS?

UIPDATE: I'm pasting in a comment that clarifies what happened. 


What you've illustrated is a resolution submitted for consideration at the AMA's November 2020 special meeting. Here's what happened, according to proceedings from that meeting.

Reference Committee E met and "reviewed passionate and mixed testimony from both the online 46 testimony and in the live hearing on this resolution." It decided, "your Reference Committee recommends that Resolution 509 not be adopted."

https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-11/nov20-ref-com-e-annotated.pdf pages 15-16

On page 20 of this document, you can find that when the AMA House of Delegates voted, it did not adopt this resolution, and it reaffirmed their existing position.

https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-12/nov-s20-resolutions.pdf

The existing position, contained in policy H-120.988, states, in part, "Our AMA confirms its strong support for the autonomous clinical decision-making authority of a physician and that a physician may lawfully use an FDA approved drug product or medical device for an off-label indication when such use is based upon sound scientific evidence or sound medical opinion ..."


My guess is that this leaves the decision very much up to State medical authorities.


17 comments:

  1. "Is there some way to put these people on the SCOTUS?"

    You'd get the same results. The election over and they now have a vaccine to stick people with so AMA mission accomplished!!!

    Another great job done for America!

    Just wait, the USSC will start acting like a court again in February.

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    1. The abbreviation USSC might have a new expansion by then: United Socialist States of China.

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  2. I'll take HCQ--not some dodgy vaccine.

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    1. I had it about 6 months ago. You probably wouldn't even both with HCQ to be honest. I took nothing, mild cold. I've had influenzas that were far worse.

      I've had one friend that took steroid as treatment but he has asthma. Other than shortness of breath he had no issues.

      No one I know, and no one I know knows of anyone that has died from it.

      We do not do vaccines of any type.

      I think the last count I saw from the CDC was a 19,000 total deaths FROM covid. They need to stop over hyping the WITH number and get honest about comorbidity.

      But that would ruin all of big governments fun. Thankful I live in Florida!

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    2. I'm not taking any CCP virus vaccine willingly.

      -Chuck

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  3. I was shocked when I saw this.

    How many people died due to hatred of Trump. The entire anti HCQ effort was beyond the pale.

    Just evil.

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  4. Ivermectin has been found to be efficacious all of a sudden as well.

    Who knew?

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    1. Fauci knew. But Big Pharma will get richer off this vaccine and Big Gov will get stronger from bullying its subjects.

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  5. Hundreds of thousands have been murdered for a political cause. These people are morally no different than the Nazis who worked concentration inmates to death.

    They all knew what they were doing was evil and would result in countless deaths for great financial gain.

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  6. No vaccine for moi.

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    1. It's great to have a choice, isn't it?
      mso

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  7. It's strange to simultaneously expect something and still be astonished by it. The gall of these people, to deny their most basic professional commitments for mere political ends.

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  8. JUST in time for a Biden administration. I mean...what are the odds?

    About the same as Covid-19 appearing at just the right time to kill the best economy in US history...ahhh..mazing.

    Dave

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  9. I think vaccines are great, but I'm afraid the medical industry is going to keep ivermection out of the market to boost vaccine sales.

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  10. What you've illustrated is a resolution submitted for consideration at the AMA's November 2020 special meeting. Here's what happened, according to proceedings from that meeting.

    Reference Committee E met and "reviewed passionate and mixed testimony from both the online 46 testimony and in the live hearing on this resolution." It decided, "your Reference Committee recommends that Resolution 509 not be adopted."
    https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-11/nov20-ref-com-e-annotated.pdf pages 15-16

    On page 20 of this document, you can find that when the AMA House of Delegates voted, it did not adopt this resolution, and it reaffirmed their existing position.
    https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-12/nov-s20-resolutions.pdf

    The existing position, contained in policy H-120.988, states, in part, "Our AMA confirms its strong support for the autonomous clinical decision-making authority of a physician and that a physician may lawfully use an FDA approved drug product or medical device for an off-label indication when such use is based upon sound scientific evidence or sound medical opinion ..."

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