1/16 OK, with all the talk going on nowadays about what medication works and doctors involvement in medications, I need to inject a little experience from my past. I worked for 30 years in Emergency Medicine. About half in the field and half in clinical settings.

2/16 I found during that time some doctors were very good, some just OK, and some horrible. Something we have all experienced. Towards the end, I worked with an exceptionally brilliant doctor. He told me he didn't trust 90% of doctors today for a very good reason.

3/16 The fundamentals of PRACTICING MEDICINE is based on three subjects:
1. Anatomy and Physiology
2. Microbiology
3. Chemistry
He went on to explain, most doctors practice "cookbook Medicine". That is, if the patient exabits A, B, and C symptoms, you give them medication X.

4/16 So most doctors dont actually examine a patient and determine what is going on INSIDE them, just analyze basic symptoms and give the "authorized medicine". That is to say, the medication the FDA and the AMA say you can use for the diagnosed illness.

5/16 On thread 3 I emphasized PRACTICING MEDICINE for a reason. Medicine is not a science, it is an art. Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, and Chemistry are sciences. Medicine is an art, and for some good reasons.

6/16 Not everyone reacts the same to identical medicines. They just dont work quite the same on everyone. You I'm sure have experienced this yourself. One person wears by Tylenol for headaches. Another says Tylenol does nothing for them, they need Advil.

7/16 Treating medical conditions requires an understanding of the medical condition and how the medication works. Doctors who understand the basics of PRACTICING MEDICINE understand that the actions of how a medicine work is what is important, ....

8/16 .... not what a piece of paper says it's approved for. I'll give another example. Glucosamine is taken by many people for joint pain. Yet it's an over-the counter medication and not FDA approved. My father used it and it worked wonders.

9/16 So I asked my doctor about it and he laughed. He said doctors have known about it for 100 years, and know it works. But it's available cheap over-the-counter as a natural supplement, so no pharmaceutical company will ever spend $ millions to prove it works.

10/16 They would never recover their investment because you can buy it cheap elsewhere. There are lots of clinical trial on SIMILAR drugs that they can patent and control, but not Glucosamine. It's the same now with Hydroxychloroquine.

11/16 Quinine had been used to treat malaria since 1632. Chloroquine was developed in 1934 & is an analogue of Quinine. Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) was approved for medical use in the United States in 1955 & is just an extension in development of the Quinine/Chloroquine line.

12/16 Hydroxychloroquine a drug with a long history of safe use and known side effects. But it's cheap, and readily available form many sources. If you look at the "clinical trials" taking place you will notice an odd pattern.

13/16 It's used by thousands of people with Lupus or Arthritis, and they dont contract CORONA_19. It's used prophylactically for doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, and first responders to help prevent them from getting COVID-19.

14/16 In cases where it's used at the onset of symptoms it's reported to show dramatic improvement within hours. But the "clinical trials" are being conducted on elderly in the ICU near death. This brings up back to the beginning of my thread.

15/16 Practicing medicine is an art. Doctors dont just practice medicine based on what the FDA says, it also based on experience, education, and knowledge. This is why Trump ordered the FDA to allow it's use on COVID-19. If your doctor thinks it will help, take it.

16/16 Cookbook medicine says you cant use it for COVID-19. Drug companies cant make money off of it. But if your doctor believes it might work, by all means use it. It's the DOCTORS DECISION TO MAKE WITH YOU, not a government agency or an association of some doctors.

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