The patient can authorize the doctor to divulge any piece of his medical history to anyone the patient chooses. HIPAA only prevents the doctor from doing it without patient consent.
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Is there enough room up his ass for both a suppository AND Mitch McConnell?
Exactly.
A diversionary tactic to bury the Linick firing. Linick was investigating Pompeo regarding the Saudi arms deal (8.1Billion$). After both houses rejected it, Trump vetoed it. The Arms Export Control Act requires the president give congress 30 days before selling arms, This allows congress to way in on it. Trump using the emergency declaration was able to side step congress. Many of the weapons wouldn’t be shipped in less than a year. So, it wan’t an emergency.
And Pompeo was pushing for it.
Without Linick investigating it will all be swept under the carpet.
Great diversionary tactic.
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This is the person (and administration) that has both told states to get their own ventilators and then when they did took credit for it.
Having his cake and eating it too is sorta his thing.
Not to say that he’s right, just that his brain works that way. Come election time, he’s absolutely going to take credit for the ventilators and the meds.
I can assure you, he’ll talk about the amazing turn around he had getting test kits out to the masses, even though when he was asked why it was taking so long he very, very clearly said he doesn’t take responsibility for it.
I understand that very few of his Rs are going to vote D if he makes it that far. Maybe the Rs can make sure he doesn’t make it that far along.
An opinion piece in the Washington Post gives a very convincing trumpian reason for why trump is (sort of) claiming to be taking Hydroxy while not coming out and actually SAYING that he is for sure and having that claim backed up by his doctor.
Here is the reason:
Lord, where **are **the editors these days?? :smack: You have to plow through five pounds of verbiage to get to this, which I think makes a lot of sense (excuse the expression :rolleyes:) in trump-world-speak. The point is NOT whether he is taking it, not taking it, risking his life, lying, what-have-you.
He is following his standard playbook, namely, setting himself as a hero/[del]white[/del] orange knight who is trying to do right by his people but the Big Bad Experts (who went to college, attended classes, and got legitimate degrees) won’t let him! They’re the Bad Guys! I’m the Good Guys! THEY won’t let me help! It’s THEIR fault that you don’t have this life-saving potion/treatment/miracle drug (which I may or may not be taking).
It’s not that he’s taking it or not taking it-- it’s that the straw men don’t want him to help the great, suffering, unwashed (voting) masses who throng to his orange feet.
Ok, I have to go take a bath in bleach now. Getting inside his headmakes me queasy.
The stupid thing is that the president could have a HUGE impact on the path of the disease and the ability for states to reopen, get the economy going, and so on. Tell his supporters to wear a fucking mask when they’re going to be around other people!!
He doesn’t have to push this quackery! If he led the way and encouraged his idiotic supporters to wear masks, it would really be a game changer.
He is a contrarian and a fighter. He cannot get on the same side as the mainstream, sensible, level-headed people. He loves chaos. He sows chaos in order to (he imagines) take his rightful place as the smart, wise general at the center of the combat zone. There is no way on this earth that he can give out the same advice as Biden, Obama, and Pelosi.
He is mentally ill that way. If a building were on fire and it were surrounded by firefighters and police yelling “Get out! Run! You’re going to die!” I believe he would not be able to either flee or tell others to flee. He *might *let someone else drag him to safety and then claim it was against his will-- maybe.
*“It wasn’t that bad! The fire wasn’t going to get me! Joe Fire Chief dragged me out-- I refused, but he and sixteen guys threw ropes around me (which I chose not to break with my bare hands) and forced me out. I was never in any danger!” *
For a while now, I’ve been thinking of him as a kind of oafish Petyr Baelish.
But, wait, according to Trump’s criminal campaign manager, it has been endorsed by the Assoc. of American Physicians & Surgeons. I mean that sounds like a pretty official group of level headed professionals. Certainly not a thinly masked conservative think tank that believes that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, vaccines are bad and doesn’t recognize gun violence as a problem or anything.
Pirin tablets (as seen in The Birdcage: aspirin tablets with the first two letters scratched off).
There was a study conducted among rheumatology patients taking HCQ for their conditions.
It turns out they get COVID at the same frequency as rheumatology patients that don’t take HCQ, and when they get it it’s just as severe.
Not a medical professional but not sure I understand your links. All your links are for people who already have Covid-19. Which report shows it’s in-efficacy for use as an preventative?
And please don’t portray Medical professionals as Ultra rational humans; they are not. Let me remind you of the following :
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Flossing was scientifically found to have no positive effect. Yet both my dentist and my daughter’s dentist keep recommending it.
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Breast cancer screenings were full of false positives and yet they continued to do them until about recently when they raised the age for screenings.
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You can’t get research funding for cancer drugs unless you test them first on mice. It is long known that the ratio of WBC/RBC is reverse in mice compared to humans and mice never get cancer naturally and yet the scientific lobby continues.
So please don’t preach that medical scientists are devoid of politics. They very much are NOT!!
Those are way better than Oreos, but I don’t think they’re made any more.
Admit it. The rest of you are jealous because Chief likes me best.
The Chief has ALWAYS liked you best. :mad:
and they were first!
I’m not normally one to talk about the decline of the US / “end of an empire” but this really looks like an indicator of that kind of thing. Cases in many places around the world are in steep decline, including many areas of poverty. Country after country has been able to quickly adapt and follow the necessary measures. It’s hard, but it’s not complicated.
But it all breaks down in the US. Where a big chunk of the population doesn’t believe in science. And have elected a guy who not only also does not believe/understand science, but doesn’t care about the well-being of his citizens.
And I am not laying this only on Trump. Were a saner president in charge, you would still have tens of millions of people choosing to believe CTs, and rallying around some Trump or Alex Jones or whoever is pushing the nonsense.
It isn’t now, except as a control arm of a clinical trial.
The drug doesn’t prevent COVID; it’s only been used experimentally to deal with some of the symptoms, and not successfully, either.
I also don’t believe that he’s really taking it. “Lots of front-line workers are using it” - yeah, if they have LUPUS, doofus.
(Rhyme unintentional)