I once read a good doctor opine that clinical observation trumps RCT any day. Rem was given to anyone who stepped foot in a hospital - or so it seemed where I was. A relative that only needed hydration was admitted and hooked up for all the extra cash generating procedures.They said they couldn't just hydrate him as an outpatient. He went from high stage 3 kidney failure to 4th stage after just 2 days. They were talking dialysis and he was irate because he had no idea they snuck that in his IV. One day after stopping the Rem his numbers were back in stage 3 and the medical staff said they had never seen numbers reverse like that - and no, they would not admit it was the Rem. The other family member was not so lucky and died of kidney failure after 3 days on it. I know of many otherwise healthy people who did not fare well once the Rem was started. Take them off and they got better right away.
There's no denying that a lot of the hospital protocols were extreme and mostly based on no evidence, and I didn't want my post to appear as if I don't empathize with those who had to suffer through those protocols. I'm sorry that happened to your family members, and it's rather telling that doctors may not have been aware of possible complications.
The point of this article was more to infer that any medication may turn from effective to harmful based on various principles, including dosage and, in the case of remdesvir time. I won't make any argument as to whether outpatient use of Remdesivir would be any better, but it's apparent that the use of it in the hospital wasn't effective and ran into safety issues that may not be there in an outpatient setting because these people who are being hospitalized may be more at risk of adverse reactions.
I wonder if the large fear over COVID, as well as some financial incentives just triggered doctors to prescribe Remdesivir en masse because they assumed it wouldn't be harmful. It just seems like so many instances of malpractice was occurring but nobody willing to be held accountable.
I think it was total SOP with no deviation allowed... and drs were as lazy as anyone else, choosing not to do any research on their own. It's the doc's job to know the side effects so I won't give them a pass there. Basically, any big hospital is just an arm of big pharma/govt ABC's and all the drs tow the line. I have to say it was willful conduct in my family's case as the hospital was told repeatedly not to give Rem. But once they get that IV in you, you've lost control. There did not seem to be much fear in the fall of 2021 - "just following policy". Right. Driven by the 20% bonus for prescribing it. What a mess we have allowed them to make for us. It all comes back to money and greed, from top to bottom and the patient suffers. Maybe we should go back to when drs bartered for chickens and vegetables... lol
I once read a good doctor opine that clinical observation trumps RCT any day. Rem was given to anyone who stepped foot in a hospital - or so it seemed where I was. A relative that only needed hydration was admitted and hooked up for all the extra cash generating procedures.They said they couldn't just hydrate him as an outpatient. He went from high stage 3 kidney failure to 4th stage after just 2 days. They were talking dialysis and he was irate because he had no idea they snuck that in his IV. One day after stopping the Rem his numbers were back in stage 3 and the medical staff said they had never seen numbers reverse like that - and no, they would not admit it was the Rem. The other family member was not so lucky and died of kidney failure after 3 days on it. I know of many otherwise healthy people who did not fare well once the Rem was started. Take them off and they got better right away.
Hi sadie,
There's no denying that a lot of the hospital protocols were extreme and mostly based on no evidence, and I didn't want my post to appear as if I don't empathize with those who had to suffer through those protocols. I'm sorry that happened to your family members, and it's rather telling that doctors may not have been aware of possible complications.
The point of this article was more to infer that any medication may turn from effective to harmful based on various principles, including dosage and, in the case of remdesvir time. I won't make any argument as to whether outpatient use of Remdesivir would be any better, but it's apparent that the use of it in the hospital wasn't effective and ran into safety issues that may not be there in an outpatient setting because these people who are being hospitalized may be more at risk of adverse reactions.
I wonder if the large fear over COVID, as well as some financial incentives just triggered doctors to prescribe Remdesivir en masse because they assumed it wouldn't be harmful. It just seems like so many instances of malpractice was occurring but nobody willing to be held accountable.
I think it was total SOP with no deviation allowed... and drs were as lazy as anyone else, choosing not to do any research on their own. It's the doc's job to know the side effects so I won't give them a pass there. Basically, any big hospital is just an arm of big pharma/govt ABC's and all the drs tow the line. I have to say it was willful conduct in my family's case as the hospital was told repeatedly not to give Rem. But once they get that IV in you, you've lost control. There did not seem to be much fear in the fall of 2021 - "just following policy". Right. Driven by the 20% bonus for prescribing it. What a mess we have allowed them to make for us. It all comes back to money and greed, from top to bottom and the patient suffers. Maybe we should go back to when drs bartered for chickens and vegetables... lol