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Daniel Holley was the raffle winner for the quilt at the Ogallala Quilt Festival.
Hippocrates wrote, in Of the Epidemics, “The physician must…. have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”
But it seems that the Texas Medical Board does not see it that way. They suspended a doctor in Palestine, Texas who did not universally force his earnose- and-throat patients to block their airways by masking.
The doctor in question earned his medical degree at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in East Lansing, Michigan. He then completed two residency programs: one in general surgery at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and the other in ENT and oro-facial plastic surgery at the Tulsa Regional Medical Center in Oklahoma.
According to the doctor’s lawyer, “This arbitrary ridiculous order by the Texas Medical Board required him to put masks on all his ears, nose and throat patients, who already have difficulty breathing. So, bottom line, the Texas Medical Board is taking a doctor’s license in the state of Texas, shutting down his practice, because he refused to do harm to his patients.”
When it comes to masking, especially in the cases of those who are already having trouble breathing, the practice can lead to hypercapnia (aka hypercarbia), an affliction caused by the re-inhalation of carbon dioxide from one’s previously- exhaled breath; this is easily caused by wearing a mask snug enough to prevent carbon dioxide from being fully expelled prior to the patient’s next breath.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, the symptoms of hypercarbia are these: shortness of breath, headaches, sluggishness, disorientation, confusion, paranoia, depression, and seizures.
The reduction of oxygen in the bloodstream that can occur as a result of hypercapnia is known as hypoxia, a condition that can cause harm to the brain, eyes, ears, heart, skin, and other organs of the body. Symptoms of hypoxia are wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, and sweating. These symptoms occur as the heart struggles to pump blood more quickly, in order to force enough oxygenated blood out to the organs of the body to sustain them.
So, why would an ENT doctor wish to force his patients with breathing problems to block their air passages?
According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, SARSCoV- 2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has a diameter of 0.125 microns. But, because the holes in a surgical mask measure 100 microns across, a surgical mask cannot block a particle with a diameter smaller than 100 microns, a diameter that is 800 times greater than that of the COVID virus. In other words, COVID goes through surgical masks like sand through chicken wire.
The Texas Medical Board is guilty of injustice in their sanctioning of the doctor and also for prescribing treatment that amounts to nothing less than medical malpractice. The facts are out there and surely 12 doctors on the board could do the research to know that.