Dr. Bradley R. Meyer is a board-certified family physician, 13 years in family practice, and 6 years as a U.S. Air Force physician. He s committed to treating patients and not serving the pharmaceutical industry. He was fired from his job recently for treating a COID patient with hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, instead of following the standing orders to ventilate. Dr. Meyer joins me as part of a series that we re doing with physicians all over the country who are casualties of this new devolution and in medical practice where the traditional role between doctors and patients, a very personal relationship, and that obligation to treat the patient as the doctor sees fit, is now being subverted and replaced. The role of doctors now has become as agents of state policy, which is eclipsing their obligation, not just to public health, but more importantly to the health of the particular patient that they re treating. Dr. Mears shares his story of how he was the only physician in his group to prescribe an off-label medication that got him into hot water with the organization he was working for, and how he managed to get back on track and keep his patients alive and well in spite of all the setbacks he s had in his short career. I hope you enjoy this episode and that it inspires you to keep fighting the fight for your patients. It s going to be a long, long, hard, and painful journey! Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast, Dr. Kelly! - Your support is so appreciated, it really does mean a lot to us. - Thank you to Dr. Corey for being a friend of the pod and for helping us make it all a little bit easier for us to make it a bigger, bigger, better, and more of a better listening experience. - Dr. Brad Meyer, and we re going to keep on fighting for our patients out there. (c) Dr. Kayla, and I m looking forward to seeing you in the next episode, and we hope you re listening out for the next one - - ETC - P. S. - PODCASTING (PODCAST PRODUCING - BECAUSE WE ARE NOT LITERALLY GETTING A PRICING OUT OF THIS EPISODE? - CHECK OUT THE EPISODES AND PRODUCE OF THE PROODS OF THE PICTURE?
00:00:34.000Meyer to join me as part of a series that we're doing with physicians all over the country who are examples, who are really casualties of this new devolution and In medical practice where the traditional role between doctors and patients, a very, very personal relationship and that obligation to treat the patient as the doctor sees fit, is now being subverted and replaced.
00:01:03.000The role of doctors now has become as agents of state policy, which is eclipsing their obligation, not just to public health, but more importantly to the health of the particular patient that they're treating.
00:01:26.000Well, I've always been a physician that's believed in the art of medicine.
00:01:31.000Of course, I follow the evidence, but I found early on over the course of this last year, especially with the COVID pandemic, that the physicians are being squeezed into a box and the art of medicine was fast fading.
00:01:45.000Typically, with prescriptions that we will write, 20% of them can be off-label and there's no questions asked.
00:01:53.000Off-label means it's a medication that is not typically used to treat a migraine, for instance, but could be used to treat something else.
00:02:02.000Well, when I tried to use something that was not, quote-unquote, government or CDC approved, I got in trouble, quote-unquote, with the healthcare organization that I worked for.
00:02:14.000They wanted me to strictly follow the CDC guidelines and the guidelines that were coming down to Avera Health Corporation.
00:02:49.000Were you ordered to ventilate a patient?
00:02:51.000Well, the understanding was initially out of the chute that the best thing to do for these patients when they Well, we didn't want them to get to the point where they needed ventilation in the ICU. So we have other options, and we knew that early on.
00:03:07.000And, you know, one of those things being...
00:03:11.000Hyperbaric therapy, which is increased atmospheric pressure, that was shown in an NYU study very early on, but no pharmaceutical companies put pressure on the magazines and these journals not to pick this astounding information up.
00:03:29.000Literally, people were not going to the ICU. We're good to go.
00:03:42.000The best thing was not necessarily to be the intubation, but hyperbaric treatment.
00:03:47.000And so it's increased atmospheric pressure, which increases oxygen concentration to your entire body.
00:03:54.000And from there, we found a lot of other therapeutic options available that were quite effective.
00:04:01.000To start with the hydroxychloroquine, I followed the Zelenko protocol.
00:04:07.000I found some tremendous success early on with the treatment of that.
00:04:10.000My patients, it was like turning a switch.
00:04:12.000Flu-like symptoms felt like they'd been run over by a Mack truck.
00:04:16.000And then all of a sudden, day two, early on, if I use the hydroxychloroquine, their symptoms largely were going away with, of course, some zinc vitamin D therapy as well.
00:04:26.000I really didn't get too much pushback from the hospital and the organization for doing that.
00:04:30.000Of course, I was the only physician in my about 11 physician group that was using the hydroxychloroquine.
00:04:37.000Because I wanted to do everything I could to give my patients a chance not to be hospitalized where they're typically in a pretty bad state once it comes to going into the hospital.
00:05:27.000And so I was told by the Averis system, they came into clinic in Northwest Iowa in Okoboji for an unannounced meeting and told me that I must stop prescribing the ivermectin.
00:05:40.000As well, I was telling my patients that the ivermectin was an effective prevention or prophylaxis for COVID-19 in place of the jab or the COVID-19 vaccine, which is experimental.
00:05:54.000I wanted to give my patients an option and a choice, so they told me, you can't prescribe the ivermectin and you can't talk to the patients about the vaccine because you might, quote unquote, confuse the community.
00:06:05.000So from there, they said, are we going to be a fit?
00:06:12.000And for a time, a bit of time, I stopped prescribing, but the patients in the community were asking for the ivermectin.
00:06:20.000And knowing what I knew from the studies around the world and frontline doctors, I knew that I took an oath not to the corporation.
00:06:29.000I took an oath to take care of my patients and have their best interest at mind.
00:06:34.000And I couldn't sleep at night if I didn't continue to or restart the ivermectin, which I did.
00:06:41.000And one of my patients in the town of Okoboji, she's a realtor that's been there a long time, three to four weeks prior to her coming into the hospital with COVID this last spring, I told her that you're going to need ivermectin, but I'm not sure you're going to be able to get it.
00:07:00.000My colleague was, but serendipitously, she came into the hospital with COVID, and I happened to be taking care of her the day that my colleague was off.
00:07:12.000And so, went upstairs into the hospital, and we talked about ivermectin, how she needed it, and how I had written for it in the hospital several times before, and the chief medical officer of the hospital literally canceled out my orders.
00:07:27.000And said, no, we're not going to fulfill that order in the hospital.
00:07:43.000One of the journey that has been COVID and God has been connecting a lot of people in my life.
00:07:49.000It's been a beautiful thing out of a really taxing year.
00:07:52.000one of my patients introduced me to Dr. Ted Fogarty out of North Dakota.
00:07:57.000And he was the one that started to introduce me to some of the hyperbaric options for treatment, as well as antivirals, budathione, N-acetylcysteine.
00:08:08.000And I called up Dr. Fogarty or Ted and I'm like, hey, where's the window here?
00:08:51.000And we prayed that it made it through.
00:08:53.000And the order didn't get canceled out.
00:08:56.000That's never happened to me before this year where an order's canceled out, but went through and lo and behold her symptoms got better.
00:09:05.000She didn't go to the ICU and she was discharged 48 hours after I started that treatment.
00:09:11.000But the following day After she was sent home on a Sunday, I came into work and I was met with the administrative folks from Avera Health out of Sioux Falls and they informed me that I was fired without, quote unquote, without cause.
00:09:30.000They had told me before, stop prescribing the ivermectin and stop talking about the COVID-19 injection with your patients and whether they should get it or not.
00:09:59.000Pierre Corey, he forwarded me all of the meta-analysis from these multitude of studies that he was about ready to send off to the NIH. In January, he's like, all right, this is the evidence I have, and it's overwhelming.
00:10:14.000And I think this was in December of 2020, and I was so excited.
00:10:20.000I sent out an email to the CEO of the hospital, the chief medical officer in the hospital and all of my colleagues to say, we need to start treating patients early in the course of the infection.
00:10:32.000So they, number one, they don't get hospitalized is the goal.
00:10:35.000And two, if they are, let's use it in the hospital, the ivermectin, because the, again, the evidence is overwhelming.
00:10:42.000The safety data is extremely, it's extremely safe.
00:10:46.000I didn't get a response on the email, on the text that I sent with Dr. Corey's information.
00:10:52.000I talked to them in person at one of our staff meetings, again, approached the subject to say, hey, let's think about treating early on with symptoms, especially for the high risk folks that have a lot of medical pathology going on and maybe over 70 plus.
00:11:08.000We want to do all we can to prevent them from getting into a pickle here.
00:11:13.000And again, it was not met with open arms.
00:11:17.000They had already decided that they were getting their COVID-19 marching orders and directives from Avera, which was getting it from the CDC. And so there was not going to be any movement.
00:11:31.000There was not going to be much differentiation for anybody in the management of our patients' care.
00:11:39.000In your opinion, could there have been people's lives would have been saved if you had done the early treatment protocols?
00:11:52.000My colleagues, none of them We did the early treatment protocols and statistically there's not much doubt that the people that we had die wouldn't have or a good majority of them.
00:12:42.000The masking, there's no evidence to support it.
00:12:45.000Your early treatment ideas, there's no reason why we shouldn't consider that.
00:12:50.000But they also told me that if they went against the grain, that there was nowhere else for them to go.
00:12:57.000So if they crossed the corporation or the employer, they were worried that they were going to get fired and then they're not going to be able to practice medicine anywhere else.
00:13:22.000There's reimbursement for patients that are intubated, that are ventilated with a traditional tube.
00:13:29.000You know, I believe that they're paid to use the approved treatments like IV remdesivir.
00:13:35.000In my estimation that, you know, if there is an inexpensive alternative like ivermectin, And all this IV remdesivir has been ordered and that there may not be payment from the government to the corporation if ivermectin is used.
00:13:53.000But if IV remdesivir is used because that's on the approved list, then the reimbursement is going to go through.
00:14:21.000And we're going to do a clinic that is a common sense approach clinic where you're not required to wear masks.
00:14:29.000You can choose to if you would like to, but you don't have to to enter our clinic.
00:14:33.000We're going to implement functional medicine, some natural non-pharmacologic treatments, hyperbaric treatments.
00:14:42.000We'll still do traditional medicine, I will, as a family physician.
00:14:45.000I'm kind of in all of the above approach with regard to my treatments.
00:14:52.000I believe that there's a big desire for the patients to go to a place just as much as there's a desire of physicians to work at a place where they're not being told what to do and how to practice.
00:15:08.000They don't want to come into the I want a healing environment.
00:15:19.000And I do believe that powering up our mitochondria, we can make that one of our best pharmaceutical, our own pharmaceutical company that's got already innately put into our body.
00:15:31.000So we can help ourselves heal by giving ourselves the right nutrients and the hyperbaric medicine.
00:15:39.000Increased atmospheric pressure usage in a broad range of Treatments across the country, starting off in northwest of Iowa.
00:15:48.000And how is, I know Ted Fogarty, but he's from Fargo, North Dakota.