Texas court says hospital can’t be forced to offer ivermectin to covid patient on ventilator

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Fri, 2021-11-19 10:12 — mike kraft

Texas court says hospital can’t be forced to offer ivermectin to covid patient on ventilator The Food and Drug Administration has not approved or authorized ivermectin for covid treatment, though there is widespread interest in the drug on the fringes of the Internet and in some right-wing circles. Andrew Jeong Washington Post

A Texas appeals court ruled Thursday that a hospital can’t be forced to treat a covid-19 patient in its care with ivermectin, a drug normally used to eliminate parasitic worms, after the patient’s wife sued the hospital to demand the treatment.

Jason Jones, a 48-year-old law enforcement official, was hospitalized at the Texas Health Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth in late September after testing positive for the coronavirus. He was put in a medically induced coma and a ventilator on Oct. 7, according to court documents. Erin Jones, his wife, asked Huguley to give her husband ivermectin, after consulting with Mary Talley Bowden, a physician not affiliated with the hospital.

Bowden, who recently lost physician privileges at another hospital after it said she spread “misinformation” about the coronavirus, prescribed the drug. But Huguley staff refused to administer it, and Erin Jones filed suit.

Thursday’s ruling overturns a trial court decision that gave Bowden temporary privileges at Huguley.

“Judges are not doctors. We are not empowered to decide whether a particular medication should be administered,” wrote Bonnie Sudderth, chief justice of the Texas appellate court. “Although we may empathize with a wife’s desire to try anything and everything to save her husband, we are bound by the law, and the law in this case does not allow judicial intervention.” ...

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