#19: Updated New York State Status
From the Desk Of Robin Ellen Leder, M.D.
Hello My Dear Patients!
I thought you might be interested in what NYS has to say to us as physicians regarding testing. You will see that the PDF I have included here ends in an offering of FAQ for patients, so this may answer or at lease address things that have been on your mind.
Remember that "the opinions stated here do not necessarily represent those of the author of this letter"!! If you really want to know my viewpoint, feel free to ask any time :-) But in the interest of objectivity, I like to share all information with you, and allow all of my brilliant and independent-thinking patients to draw their own conclusions and choose their own courses. We work as a team, and I am here to investigate, suggest, and advise, and to help you to carry out any reasonable plan you finally elect in the safest and best way. If you would like to discuss? I think this is where I may decide to have a blog, and share some very personal beliefs. But this is not that venue, this is an informational site for my patients. So:
Click to view the NYS Department of Health Notification:
https://mcusercontent.com/fa9d01f9d29bf7242255434ef/files/4d87f3b3-4c78-4b63-b083-a99a231d48ef/Notification_103349.02.pdf
OK guys, keep thinking things through, keep steering your course and re-directing as need be as new information continues to become available daily.
Stay safe and healthy and smart and strong and sane!
Best regards to you all -
Dr. Robin Ellen Leder
Note : Pulse oximeter supplies are not vast. I have researched online,so if you need a supplier, LMK.
#20 Covid-19: Your Knowledge Is Power, so Don’t Hesitate to Use It and Share It
Good morning to all:
Well, I have good news and bad news.
First the good. I sincerely believe that with the tools we have discussed, you have it in your power to prevent the corona virus from becoming part of your life, and should you or a loved one become positive, you have the means to treat it rationally at every phase. Slowly the pieces have fallen into place for me, and after listening to the talk by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt that I sent perhaps a week ago, I feel much more at peace knowing what to do and when.
Today, again, one of the super-bright patients in this community of which you are all a part sent me another very important video for you to listen to and share with friends and family, and I thank her for sharing this with us.
You are already aware of the use of pulse oximetry from the news article we shared over a week ago, but what is novel for me here is that the speaker on this video is talking from direct clinical experience in the hospital with patients, and he is an expert in this field of critical pulmonary/airway care; he speaks as a physician specialist. Listen to his manner as well as the content, from beginning to end, and you can decide for yourself if he engenders trust and a sense of calm, much as Klinghardt did for me immediately upon listening. For me, he answered so many important questions, and had a radically different approach to hospitalization overall.
When you copy and paste the YouTube video link below, you will again hear the importance of pulse ox, as well as when to use it, and how much it can impact outcomes. And here, outcomes translates to "saving lives - or not":
Here is the video:
https://youtu.be/wKHgDcbFTcM
(you may have to copy and paste this, I do not think a click will work)
I hope that watching this gives you a much stronger sense of empowerment vis-a-vis this virus, how it can be rationally approached and managed, and how to modify and control its potential impact on your life.
So, that is the good. You may consider the bad to be just as bad, and in a certain way, very profoundly and acutely, it certainly is. But I also think it serves to emphasize your own critical role in facing this challenge in the most unforgettable way.
One of my patients told me of her husband who was currently hospitalized with Covid, and had been for some weeks. With her permission, I tell you their story. When we initially spoke, I reminded my patient of the elements of the protocol for treatment as laid out by Kinghardt and others, and she immediately relayed them verbatim to the hospitalists taking care of him. They sounded very receptive, and told her that they would proceed to institute the protocol; frankly, I was excited to see how well it worked.
Several days later, she let me know that the hospital said her husband was not expected to live and we were obviously very distressed. We called the hospital just to check on how he was being treated, and as it turns out, they were NOT following her requests, not by a long shot. The 220 mg. of zinc daily was 50 mg only. The IV vitamin C (50 grams daily over the full daily for the very ill ) was translated into giving the patient a 1500 mg. tablet, crushed for oral consumption. We rushed to institute the full intensive protocol to include the melatonin that Klinghardt prescribes for cytokine storm, as well as all of the other active elements. The next day, my patient's husband was gone.
The story is a true tragedy on so many levels. The first, clearly, is the the loss of an amazing childhood sweetheart, husband, father and grandfather for my patient and her family, The next, the failure of the hospital to do the protocol, or moreover, to not do it while the said they were in fact doing it (i e. lying, or at least behaving with profound negligence). And so the third, the staff of the hospital apparently not really comprehending the relevance of the pieces of the protocol to the different aspects of the disease's evolution in Covid. (In fact, if all of you have listened to the information I have shared vial email and embedded videos, I believe that you understand things far better than they.) And clinically, this was the loss of an opportunity for the hospital staff (and for me) to learn how this protocol works on a patient, and possibly make it available to use for other patients going forward. It is hard for me to understand the responses of the hospital here at such a critical time, but this is a true story, so I must accept that such can indeed happen.
But inherent in this situation, for me, there is a lesson that is vastly important to learn, or reiterate. We are in control, or should I say, we have been given a great deal of control, information many may not have synthesized or even be aware of. But to achieve success, we must be extremely proactive at every step of the way, in pursuing treatment and resolution, whatever it takes, whatever that may means. And if we do believe in G-d or believe in any sort of synchrony with G-d or with the power of the Universe or nature, our efforts can enable this power to work through us and provide the best possible results.
Always, ultimately, G-d's will, or this universal will shall be done, but we can be part of the plan, or we surely must try. This power works through people, and we must work to implement at the right time, using our tools. Remember the NYU doctor I talked about several weeks ago, who told me that if I go to him with Covid in the hospital, he will treat me with "warm fluids." I, we, cannot simply leave our fate to doctors, to anyone. We have the knowledge they may not have, and they must work with us to get this done: we may be the teachers here, to guide them in a better approach, It is has been this way for followers of the holistic approach forever, and it is doubly important now. It is not about how it should or shouldn't be, this is how it is, and open-minded doctors need to work with us, now. When they do, they will learn and be more fulfilled too. That's what I believe.
My heart and soul go out to my patient and her family. She is a brave, beautiful, and exceptional woman, one of the best I have known, and she fought for her husband right to the end. I hope and pray, perhaps in her honor, that I may hear stories going forward where patients are using the tools themselves, and sharing them pointedly with physicians as needed, early, and unswervingly. These approaches come from China, South Korea, Germany, and from our most brilliant hospitalists who are paying attention to outcomes. The experience there is vast, and the science has been followed by these countries and these physicians with success. Let's learn from them and in turn, let our physicians learn from us. The knowledge is there, and in our hands.
Stay safe, stay healthy, stay strong, stay purposeful, stay sane.
Best regards -
Dr. Robin Ellen Leder