NY Judge Orders Hospital To Use Ivermectin, Woman Recovers
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A judge ordered
the Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital to allow an 80-year old woman to be treated with Ivermectin.
According to the family their attorney, the treatment saved the life of Judith Smentkiewicz.
Although not yet approved, according to court documents,
the woman’s daughter referred to it as a “miracle drug,” as do her attorneys, Ralph C. Lorigo and Jon F. Minear.
Apparently, a doctor ordered the drug off-label in the intensive care unit (ICU), and as she improved, she was moved to another unit, and the doctor there stepped in and disallowed the use of the drug.
Family members immediately involved lawyers and legal action to resume treatment.
And now, The New York Supreme Court Judge Henry J. Nowak has aligned with the family.
Not Using Ivermectin, One Year In, Is Unethical And Immoral
A Lawsuit, A Life Saved
This article was prompted
by the story of an 80-year-old Buffalo woman with COVID whose feisty, take-no-prisoners family took a hospital to court over ivermectin.
Such is the state of COVID care in America.
The woman, Judith Smentkiewicz,
was on a ventilator when her loved ones were told she’d likely spend another month in the ICU, where they gave her a 20 percent chance of survival.
This is the modus operandi of COVID among the elderly and infirm: prolonged, expensive and often fruitless late-stage care.
So the family did some research
on behalf of this active octogenarian who drives, lives independently and works five days a week cleaning houses.
They went online. They read about studies of ivermectin’s success. They pressed an ICU doctor to give it, and, on day 12 of infection, he did.
Within 48 hours of a single dose,
Mrs. Smentkiewicz had improved so much that, like a Florida woman in my first ivermectin article, she was moved out of critical care.
The hitch? Doctors on the new unit declined to continue ivermectin even as the woman’s condition declined.
The drug is not approved for COVID, they told her family.
The family went to court.
The hospital fiercely objected.
Mrs. Smenkiewicz’s personal physician for 20 years was called in. “We reviewed the limited studies on the use of ivermectin for COVID-19 and recommend she receive 15 mg orally Day 1, Day 3 and Day 5,” wrote Dr. Stephen Scravani in a letter to the court.
The judge ordered the treatment resumed.
As a result, Mrs. Smentkiewicz is to be released to a rehabilitation facility shortly.
“It is a miracle from where she was,” the family’s attorney, Ralph Lorigo, told me.
https://trialsitenews.com/not-using-ivermectin-one-year-in-is-unethical-and-immoral/