News that a doctor at an Arkansas jail was giving inmates Ivermectin for COVID cases made national headlines last month. The drug isn’t FDA-approved for that use, nor has it been shown as beneficial in fighting COVID.
Why is it that the first thing that comes to mind is Gomer Pyle?
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Hey, remember back when military tribunals sentenced doctors who performed medical experiments on prisoners to hang?
Those were the days…
It’s Arkansas.
Q: You know how we know the tooth brush was invented there?
A: Anywhere else and it would be called a teethbrush.
But I kid.
Sort of.
How many black inmates there?
I want to weep remembering others who underwent “experimental” treatments.
Stop. Make it stop.
The Arkansas State Medical Board should immediate revoke this man’s license to practice medicine.
Dr. Karas should be tried for criminal malpractice and jailed. An American Dr. Mengele?
The first thing that comes to mind is the Tuskegee Experiment (Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment). The guy should immediately lose his license to practice medicine.
“Due to the threat of litigation, Washington County will not comment on any allegations,” county attorney Brian Lester told TPM. FFS…let’s hope they get sued into the Stone Age, and Dr Mengele does a long stretch at Shawshank.
The guy should go to jail. The same jail he was the doctor for.
Arrested, tried, convicted and given a LONG sentence in prison. He’s performing a medical trial without consent or permission. Where’s the Sheriff on this?
“I am, and will continue to, uphold my constitutional duty to detainees in the Washington County Detention Center,” Helder said. “I am not a medical doctor and cannot provide advice or direction on the appropriate dosage or usage of any prescription drug.”
Well fuck, I’m not a medical doctor either, but treating inmates with medicine the FDA says not to use, is a big ass hint that something isn’t right. He needs to go too.
Welp, nobody in that jail will be suffering from nematode infestation I tells ya.
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And this is why there is hesitancy in the A/A community over getting vaccinated.
The sheriff better have a plan B because it looks like his jail is going to be losing a medical practitioner.
And the county better start counting up their monetary reserves because their about to make some payouts that they weren’t expecting.
In the reporting on Ivermectin usage in humans there was a mention of either liver damage or kidney damage. The county may be on the hook to expenses to former inmates.
Great. So now the right is so deep into fascism we’re literally pulling Dr. Mengele experiments on prisoners. Great. Just fucking great. Welcome to New Gilead folks, where women are brood mares and prisoners are pharmaceutical profit centers.
Christ almighty.
It’s Arkansas. Where marrying your first cousin is not only legal, but assumed. And you think anyone cares about a medical license?
Can we go back and revisit that conversation we had the other day about informed consent and the occasional validity of off-label prescribing?
No words.
OK TPM lawyers it sounds like the sheriff may being going to go through somethings, like what it means when someone is in his custody. I sure experimenting on inmates held in the county jail and dosed with a drug without the inmates consent violates a law or two.