What makes hospitals so deadly and how can we fix it?
A Midwestern Doctor | Jan 16, 2025
Story at a Glance
•Throughout COVID-19, abysmal hospital care and the suppression of effective off-patent therapies killed approximately a million Americans. Much of this originated from Obamacare pressuring hospitals to aggressively treat patients so they could quickly leave the hospital and reduce healthcare costs.
•More frail patients respond poorly to aggressive protocols, resulting in them frequently being pushed into palliative care or hospice. Sadly doctors are no longer trained to gradually bring their patients back to health, and hence view many of those deaths as inevitable.
•In this article, we will review some of the forgotten medical therapies that dramatically improve hospital outcomes and highlight some of the key strategies patients and lawmakers can use to reduce hospital deaths.
During COVID-19, we witnessed something previously unimaginable. A national emergency hospitalized thousands of Americans, where they were cut off from their loved ones and inevitably died. It soon became clear that the hospital protocols did not work, but regardless of how futile conventional care was, patients in our hospitals could not get the alternative therapies they needed.
This led to a sobering realization throughout America—what many of us believed about our hospitals was utterly incorrect. Rather than help patients, hospitals effectively functioned like assembly lines that ran disastrous protocols (e.g., remdesivir), denied patients access to their loved ones and refused to use alternative therapies even when it was known the patients were otherwise expected to die.
This was best illustrated by a travel nurse who who was assigned to the New York hospital with the highest death tolls in the nation and realized something very wrong was happening throughout the hospital so she covertly recorded it:
?Nurse Erin worked in NYC at the hardest hit COVID hospital in America. She witnessed a horrifying number of needless deaths and exposed why so many people actually died.
This secret recording shows how doctors would not treat patients they knew would die with anything except… pic.twitter.com/GONAsB6QVt
— A Midwestern Doctor (@MidwesternDoc) November 26, 2024
Note: the full interview (and the accompanying viral Twitter thread on it) provides conclusive proof many patients were killed due to grossly inappropriate hospital protocols.
Appallingly, the COVID-19 treatment protocols financially incentivized remdesivir (“run death is near”) and then ventilator care but penalized effective off-patent treatments. As such, hospital administrators required deadly “treatments” like Remdesivir and retaliated against the doctors who used unprofitable treatments that saved lives.
Note: the NIH continued to make remdesivir the treatment for COVID-19 and forbid alternative therapies even as a mountain of evidence piled up its protocols. This was due to Anthony Fauci appointing the NIH committee and selecting chairs that had direct financial ties to Remdesivir’s manufacturer—a recurring problem in American medicine (e.g., I showed how our grossly inaccurate cholesterol guidelines were authored by individuals taking money from statin manufacturers here).
Because of this murderous corruption, families began suing hospitals to allow the use of ivermectin for a relative who was expected to die (after being subjected to Fauci’s hospital COVID protocols). Remarkably, because there was so much money on the line, the hospitals chose to fight these lawsuits in court rather than just administer ivermectin.
Of the 80 lawsuits filed by lawyer Ralph Lorigo, in 40 the judge sided with the family, and in 40 with the hospital. Of those, in the 40 where patients received ivermectin, 38 survived, whereas of the 40 who did not, only 2 survived—in essence making suing a hospital arguably the most effective medical intervention in history. Yet rather than take this data into consideration, the profit-focused hospitals banded together to develop an effective apparatus to dismiss further lawsuits.
As I had expected something like this to happen, shortly before the pandemic, I put a home treatment plain into place (e.g., by procuring high-powered oxygen concentrators and non-invasive ventilation). Numerous people in my immediate circle were successfully treated at home, many of whom would have otherwise been immediately hospitalized and likely died.
Note: prior to COVID, we’d had other patients who merited hospitalization but simultaneously were likely to be put on the palliative care pipeline once admitted, so we’d already learned how to provide much of the care they needed at home.
Likewise, I also heard of more stories than I can count throughout the pandemic where a relative snuck an “unapproved” therapy to a patient in the hospital, saving the patient’s life.
Reductionist Realities
In medicine, this is clear in the contrast between algorithmic care—where doctors follow strict protocols—and the art of medicine, which involves critical thinking, individualized treatment plans, and nurturing the doctor-patient relationship, which is key to healing. Unfortunately, medical training has increasingly shifted from fostering independent judgment to prioritizing corporate-driven guidelines, leaving little room for the art of care.
Extremely informative,and sensitive article that hits the nail on the head concerning everything that is wrong with our medical system. I have personally experiencedthe terrible level of care iAmericanh hospitals. Many of the people working in them, including physicians and nurses, don’t seem particularly interested in making patients well.I can recall one situation when I checked into an emergency room, feeling very ill. I was left waiting in a corridor while no one paid any attention to. Many nurses and other staff memberspassed by the corridor, and I cried out in pain, begging someone to give me medical treatment, They all passed me by, completely ignoring me. Finally I screamed that I was going to get my lawyer to sue the hospital and get it closed down for its inferior level of care. Suddenly a doctor appeared out of nowhere, interviewed me and finally began a program of treatment.
Thi was only one of many horrible experiences I have had in hospitals. More horror stories later.
As a retired MD I experienced the change in medical care from the time I received my medical school training (1975-78) to the COVID years. I was honestly shocked as an in-patient at the world famous Mass. General Hospital, with how little time doctors AND nurses spent with the patients. The doctors spent approximately 3 minutes with me a day, and I could go hours before seeing a nurse. This was 20 years ago!
I agree that Obamacare made things worse, but unfortunately all of allopathic medicine has had a trajectory from its inception in the 1930’s that meant medicine first focused on drugs which could be patented, and then diseases were found that would respond to the drugs. Secondly after drugs was the focus on technology. Between drugs and technology, doctors were increasingly being trained to make a diagnosis based on lab tests or other diagnostic testing. Prior to this a diagnosis was based upon taking a careful history, review of systems, and physical exam. Trust within the doctor patient relationship was important in order to get the most accurate history and essential for the healing of the patient. Now young doctors look to technology to make the diagnosis for them; it’s as if they don’t even need the patient at all. They might as well treat the lab test itself. The whole approach in allopathic medicine is problematic because it is not about helping people achieve wellness, it is all about disease and sickness; with drugs being a major cause of disease in and of themselves.
In addition there are theories in medicine which are taught as facts! How can that be happening in a scientific institution? But there it is. The germ theory, that microorganisms cause infections and that infections can be transmitted, has never been proven. In fact it has been refuted in hundreds of studies, but it is taught as if it is fact. This is dogma and indoctrination. It is not based upon the scientific method of proof. It is, however, necessary for the business model of Big Pharma. Oh and the medical literature that is published usually must pass Big Pharma’s tests for supporting them. Thus doctors are trained to essentially be drug salesmen. Sometimes this helps patients but many times it does not. Because it is not based upon scientific validation, it is difficult to know whether a given intervention will help or hurt. All of medicine in this country has been corrupted.
I will also add to the Midwestern doctor’s essay by saying hospitals were bribed to conform to government standards. All the various medical societies were also bribed. Thus everyone in the system conspired to force doctors to go along with death protocols or else be brought up on charges that cost doctors their livelihoods and all their faculty positions, etc. This is no different from the medical care at concentration camps in Nazi Germany where no one cared how many people died, and doctors could experiment on people no matter how painful or deadly the experiment. This is what our medical system in America came to under the COVID policies: no one could protest what was happening, because it was all a military intervention, under the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This was martial law by stealth. Only those who followed orders were allowed to work with patients, and all those who followed orders, even if it meant unnecessary deaths, were indemnified by the PREP act.