This story is about a soulful, kind, brave family doctor in Texas, Dr. John Day.
Dr. Day has spent most of his career working in areas of medicine that are patient-focused and light on industry glamor, including in-patient psychiatry at a public hospital in Texas.
When COVID showed up. Dr. Day quickly researched available information on effective treatments and started properly treating his patients. The treatments he used worked for his patients. They felt better. He didn’t lose any.
Surreally, he was the only doctor at his clinic actually treating them the way one would expect from a doctor, as opposed to just “following orders.”
But then, in a Stalinesque manner, he was forbidden by the clinic administration to use available effective treatments, even though they saw that his method was working, and the patients were happy.
Dr. Day then came up with mostly over-the-counter combinations that mimicked the medicines he could no longer prescribe to the patients for political (fascist?…
