Oct 26, 2021
There is a new term on the scene of contemporary COVID-19 care, and it is not a good one, “medical tyranny.” This refers to a totalitarian posture taken by doctors, nurses, and hospitals caring for patients with acute COVID-19. The isolation procedure has taken family members and loved ones away from the bedside, and now frightened, ill, and isolated patients through forms of video try to interact with healthcare providers about their inpatient treatment.
There are innumerable reports of long lengths of stay, unhappy patients and family members, and clear evidence of therapeutic nihilism where patients are not offered the full continuum of care that optimally is started as an outpatient. Patients and family members should demand “shared decision making” and enforce a patient bill of rights that ensures all parties agree on the treatment course.
In this program, we have Dr. Richard Amerling, MD, Chief Medical Officer for the American Frontline Doctors, who gives his analysis as it relates to medical tyranny among medical doctors who are entranced into waiting for large, randomized trials and guidelines based upon those trials. Courage, clinical skill, and judgment are qualities associated with outpatient doctors far more than hospitalists when it comes to acute COVID-19. It’s time for hospitals and their doctors to get up to speed