A top critical care physician who filed a lawsuit against Sentara Norfolk General Hospital over its ban on administering life-saving drugs to treat Covid-19 patients has been suspended.
In a letter to Judge David Lannetti sent on November 22nd, Marik's attorney accused Sentara of making a material misrepresentation during the hearing by failing to disclose the letter and telling the court the hospital would not retaliate against Marik for filing the lawsuit.
"The letter gives no explanation whatsoever for the 'coincidence' of Sentara's choosing to suspend Dr. Marik at this particular moment, leaving only one realistic conclusion. Sentara has engaged in a blatant act of retaliation against Dr. Marik for filing this suit and for exposing to the public Sentara's unlawful unjustified denial of safe, potentially life-saving medicines to its COVID patients in violation of Virginia statutory law and public policy."
In Sentara' letter to Marik, hospital officials summoned Marik to a proceeding scheduled for December 2nd during which, the hospital said, "No lawyer representing Dr Marik will be permitted and no recording/video or transcript will be made."
"At the just-concluded hearing on November 18, 2021, Sentara expressly represented to this Court that it would not discipline Dr. Marik in any way for informing his COVID patients that Sentara was preventing him from giving them alternative treatments that are, in his medical judgment safe, and potentially life-saving and medically appropriate for them."
Marik said: "Obviously, patients who are dying in the ICU can't come to court. Sentara hospital lied continuously and incessantly but at this type of hearing, I was not in a position where I could challenge the falsities."
Marik filed his lawsuit against Sentara Healthcare on Nov. 9, arguing the organisation is endangering the lives of its COVID patients by preventing him from using his treatment protocol, which he says has reduced mortality rates in the ICU from approximately between 40% and 60% to less than 20%. The lawsuit alleges that Sentara's ban on the use of Ivermectin and other alternative treatments for Covid violates US and Virginia medical laws and the concept of informed consent, whereby "Patients have the right to receive information and ask questions about recommended treatments so that they can make well-considered decisions about care."
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