Fired Over Ivermectin, ER Doctor Fights for Medical Freedom
John Witcher, a physician and former ER medical director, had his contract terminated in December 2021 when he attempted to use ivermectin for three of his hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
A month earlier, Mary Talley Bowden, an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor, posted on Twitter that she supported ivermectin use for treating COVID-19 and that vaccine mandates were “wrong.” Bowden, who’d recently joined the medical staff at Houston Methodist, was suspended.
Not long after, Yusuf Saleeby, a medical doctor in South Carolina with more than 30 years of experience, received a letter from South Carolina’s medical board detailing that it had received a complaint that he prescribed ivermectin to one of his patients. The board stated that it was opening an investigation….