Michigan Democrat Governor Threatens
Licenses of Doctors and Pharmacists
Who Prescribe Hydroxychloroquine to
Treat Coronavirus…
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/27/2020 11:25:31 AM
Governor Gretchen Whitmer from the Michigan Directorate has threatened to turn the eye of the state upon any doctor or pharmacist who would attempt to prescribe chloroquine to treat their patients suffering from coronavirus. Medical licenses may need to be revoked.
The agency’s March 24 letter warns physicians and pharmacists of professional consequences for the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine (and chloroquine). Beyond the rational recommendation against hoarding, the letter includes threats of “administrative action” against the licenses of doctors that prescribe hydroxychloroquine.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NancyD 3/27/2020 11:33:02 AM (No. 359752)
She MUST let the doctors do their job and butt out. If the patient understand the risk, it should be up to them and the doc. Whitmer is the gov of my State, and she should just stick to "fixing the damn roads" and stay out of medicine.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/27/2020 11:35:22 AM (No. 359754)
It's not that Dem politician's are stupid, it's just that they're experts about so many things that they don't know.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 3/27/2020 11:35:54 AM (No. 359755)
Wow. Yeah, that's not a smart move you moron politician.
Docs need to have politicians get out of their way, and I doubt that voters will appreciate this sort of political hate getting between them and their docs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 3/27/2020 11:36:14 AM (No. 359756)
Michigan needs to revoke Whitmer's Medical license.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
farmwife 3/27/2020 11:44:46 AM (No. 359776)
Every one of these 'leaders' who don't want drs. prescribing these drugs would take them in a heartbeat if they are sick. As would I. I do not understand this at all.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bassman 3/27/2020 11:46:02 AM (No. 359777)
Wouldn't that put her in violation of the Right To Try Act? This isn't even an experimental drug we're talking about here!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Doc1 3/27/2020 11:46:04 AM (No. 359778)
Apparently she doesn't know that she doesn't have the power to do that. Only the Board of Medical Licensure or the Board of Pharmacology can lift a license. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
john56 3/27/2020 11:48:17 AM (No. 359784)
I'm thinking a couple things ... doctors aren't writing Rx's for hydroxycholorquine and stuff willy-nilly. And most politicians are rotten doctors. Yes, there's probably an increased demand for Plaquenil (a drug I used to sell many years ago in another career) and shortages are a concern. But any COVID-19 use is normally a short term (5-10 days) vs the normal maintenance use (long term). Plus, the prescribing information still suggests a baseline eye exam as long-term use does raise the concern of macular degeneration (rare, but it happens).
The doofus Democrat governors of Nevada and Michigan prove that "Medicare for all" socialized medicine means medicine for none (well, except for their chosen friends). Kind of like Cuba's liberals-lauded medical system. Great free care, but not an asprin pill in sight.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Cardsfan 3/27/2020 11:48:22 AM (No. 359785)
Can’t have folks getting better all of a sudden
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MainelySane 3/27/2020 11:49:49 AM (No. 359787)
Unbelievable
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/27/2020 11:52:03 AM (No. 359789)
Physicians in Michigan, like physicians everywhere, owe their first duty to their patients. This dimwitted governor may very well flush out physicians into other states.
And as a bit of trivia, when Dirty Donna Shalala was Dollar Bill Clinton's Secretary of HHS, Shalala opposed compounding, and tried to el;iminate it. seriously. Shalala holds an undergraduate degree in Journalism, and a doctorate in Social Science. A garden gnome with no medical background...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/27/2020 11:52:07 AM (No. 359791)
OMG, OP! I hadn’t heard about this guy who got his degree in Romania! I lived there for 3 years in the early 80’s and knew several Americans who were studying medicine there. They were the people who couldn’t get into American med schools. And this guy apparently may not even be American. We used to say that medicine at that time in Romania was one step below leeches and we vowed that, if we ever walked into a doctor’s office and saw a degree on the wall from a Romanian med school, that we would run screaming for the woods.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 3/27/2020 11:56:12 AM (No. 359797)
Didn't Dr. Fauci state that doctors have the right and ability to prescribe that medicine if they deem appropriate?
Is she trying to interfere with doctors and their patient?
Will she take the heat when someone sues the State over a loved ones death that may have been prevented by treatment using that drug along with other drugs that have shown a lot of promise?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
retiree 3/27/2020 11:57:22 AM (No. 359800)
I'm from Michigan. I know someone who is on this prescription for a different health problem. Is she implying her doctor could have his license revoked? She needs to do some research. Better yet, leave them alone. They are a little smarter than she is.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/27/2020 12:02:10 PM (No. 359805)
Wait until Comrade Whitmer comes down with a severe case of China Virus herself, and see if she turns down treatment with the hydroxychloroquine cure.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jimincalif 3/27/2020 12:05:46 PM (No. 359810)
I've got an idea - Trump should come out for legalization and widespread use of marijuana next. This will make heads explode in California, Colorado and other states that have legalized it and make their progressives go running to Twitter to denounce the use of marijuana.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
hotcorner 3/27/2020 12:10:31 PM (No. 359818)
Joe's Vice President is auditioning as the most totalitarian.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
snapper451 3/27/2020 12:17:20 PM (No. 359825)
This witch is making a major run to be Gropin Joe's VP with all of these crazy outbursts. She's a "wack-a-doodle" but also very nasty and dangerous.
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To all my old golfing buddies back in Mt Pleasant, MI
buy more Ammo, looks like ya gonna need it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 3/27/2020 12:18:58 PM (No. 359829)
But hell yes you can get an abortion.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
smcchk 3/27/2020 12:20:22 PM (No. 359833)
By what authority does she do this?! Power grabs by governors who are out of control!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
john56 3/27/2020 12:24:02 PM (No. 359838)
Heck, if Plaquenil was even anecdotally known as an abortifacient drug, she'd be insisting that it be over-the-counter and supplied free of charge as desired.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Watlines1 3/27/2020 12:24:36 PM (No. 359839)
Voters in Wayne county helped to put this woman in office.
Wayne county happens to have the most cases of this killer virus.
Perhaps the rookie governor should poll her infected and dying constituents in Wayne county and ask them if they agree with her ignorant decision to deny them hope in the face of possible death.
What does she have to lose?
Nothing, unless this invisible angel of death arrives at her doorstep.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Muguy 3/27/2020 12:24:58 PM (No. 359840)
It isn't hard to come to this inference--
Elect a power-mad demonrat socialist like Gretchen Whitmer and put your very life in danger!
Who made her a Doctor and determiner of who LIVES and who DIES?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MorningStar 3/27/2020 12:44:39 PM (No. 359861)
Chief Medical Officer: Ihsan Azzam, Ph.D, M.D. (The ONLY MALE among ALL WOMEN listed for NV top official positions.) Maybe being FEMALE is a super qualifier for this DEM Gov. Dr. Ihsan Azzam oversees public health surveillance, epidemiology and disease control activities. He advises state and local health authorities, healthcare providers and community-based organizations, and provides professional education, guidelines, clinical updates and recommendations to prevent, control and contain disease outbreaks. Dr. Azzam represents Nevada on state and national forums, advisory bodies, and academic institutions, and he coordinates investigations and surveillance activities among state, local and federal agencies. Dr. Azzam earned his medical degree from Cluj University of Medicine in Romania in 1982 and completed his OBGYN residency in 1986. He also holds a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Graduate Certificate in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Demography from the University of Seattle School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and a CDC Chronic Disease Epidemiology Certificate from the Penn State College of Medicine. At the University of Nevada, Reno, Dr. Azzam completed his MPH in 2002 and PhD in 2010. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the 2011 National Sheppard Award for Excellence in Epidemiology.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Nimby 3/27/2020 12:50:18 PM (No. 359867)
Another senseless moron who never took a course in Chemistry or Biology
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MorningStar 3/27/2020 1:03:00 PM (No. 359887)
One of the Pubbies had referred to Pelosi "parachuting in" to upset the nearly-made deal between the Republicans and Dems. I believe Nasty Nan from San Fran, flew in on her broom and is now assembling her posse with MI witch, Comrade "Whitless," who threatens (illegally) to suspend any physician's and pharmacist's license if they DARE to prescribe the anti-malarial drug believed to stop the CORONA-19 virus within six days or more. Who died and made her Queen?! These Dems are on a POWER GRAB!! Senile Joe is fading fast, so the Amazons are coming to the rescue. Distract, distract, distract. Anything to stop President Trump from an amazing rescue from the medical and financial near-ruin. They HATE this outstanding leader since they're leaderless!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/27/2020 1:06:00 PM (No. 359890)
Another panicked, paranoid basket case. I guess my wife is not the only one. I'm lucky she doesn't spray me down with insecticide every time I return from Walmart. (Other grocery stores are fine but Walmart has Chinese workers in the back room).
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/27/2020 1:06:34 PM (No. 359892)
I no longer think these self-important nabobs are just stupid I believe they actually welcome a higher body count. The President's polls are improving.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mjolnir 3/27/2020 1:34:35 PM (No. 359934)
Can you just imagine the outrage if a Republican governor did this and a Dem was in the WH?!!
But not a peep from the leftist media.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
or gate 3/27/2020 1:48:30 PM (No. 359954)
I did not know dems were smart enough to be Doctors.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/27/2020 1:53:00 PM (No. 359959)
Amazing how many politicians want to practice medicine without a license. If they were doing good, I might look more kindly. But they are only doing evil, and they should face prosecution if any people die because of their corrupt ignorance.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MISteve 3/27/2020 2:08:01 PM (No. 359987)
If the cure works (even helps) - and it is being tested big-time in NY - her delay for some concern over hoarding(?) when people could have been helped may prove deadly... to her political career.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 3/27/2020 2:27:32 PM (No. 360016)
Sounds like she's violating her oath of office to defend and protect the citizens of her state.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 3/27/2020 2:55:33 PM (No. 360040)
I hope both of these governors get thrown out on their butts come Election Day. I’m still shaking my head wondering how Sisolak got elected.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
jeffinitely 3/27/2020 3:00:20 PM (No. 360045)
99.99% of us pharmacists don’t prescribe. The other 0.01% are a part of a practice group overseen by a physician where a pharmacist may prescribe by protocol (not counting hospital pharmacists who prescribe per protocol of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee). Not sure why that guv is picking on pharmacists, but you can go back to the Elvis Presley's (pre-HIPPA) case to find out that the pharmacist who filled the medications the doctor prescribed lost his license. The doctor received a slap on the wrist. This has been the historic treatment of pharmacists doing their duty. The guv may as well add that they will go after "any and all cashiers, attorneys, or warehouse workers who attempt to prescribe hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus" since it's as relevant as pharmacist's prescribing. (I am a pharmacist licensed in 4 states)
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/27/2020 4:25:13 PM (No. 360125)
Gretchen Whitmer: if you cut her head off, she wouldn't get any dumber.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/27/2020 4:38:44 PM (No. 360130)
Yep. They tried that in Canada too. Result was a lot of good doctors in Texas. And doctors in Canada from Pakistan who couldn't get a license to practice in the US. Hey Michigan, Texas can always do with a few more good doctors.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
XCenturion 3/27/2020 8:47:26 PM (No. 360359)
Go F yourself Whitmer!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/27/2020 9:26:32 PM (No. 360376)
Apparently a lot of doctors are already taking that drug to keep from being knocked out by the virus. If that Governor takes those doctor’s licenses away, there will not be very many practicing doctors in Michigan. What will that Governor do when that happens?
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Sundance hits Comrade Whitmer with some pretty heavy sarcasm while bolstering the argument FOR hydroxychloroquine with some pretty compelling facts. My two bits say she spun off of that moron governor in Nevada, whose “advice” came from that state's Medical Director, who got his degree of some kind in Romania, delivered some babies in Africa, and is not licensed to practice medicine in the US, Vote straight ticket Republican and KAG and SAFE!!!!!