Pierre Kory Strikes Back
ABIM is coming for his license and he's not having it
Dr. Pierre Kory, a critical care specialist, has spent most of the pandemic either a) repurposing available drugs and supplements to develop protocols to treat COVID, long haul syndromes and post-shot adverse events OR b) fighting to provide these successful and life-saving treatments to the people who want them.
He’s best known for his work with Ivermectin.
And therein lies his “crime”. So the American Board of Internal Medicine is coming for his license.
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is threatening to revoke the medical licenses of two leaders in the alternative medical response to the COVID pandemic—Drs. Peter McCullough, and Pierre Kory—for allegedly “providing false and inaccurate information to patients.”
CEO and President of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), Dr. Richard Baron, wrote to both doctors to let them know that the board would be meeting to determine “whether to recommend any disciplinary sanction” against them regarding their views on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
But they’re messing with the wrong doctor.
Pierre Kory has come back swinging. And the truth packs a punch.
Here’s his Op-Ed, entitled Stop the War on Doctors:
Anyone in America who deviates from the group-think enforced by public health bureaucrats runs the risk of cancellation. Politicians, parents, comedians, teachers – now they’re even coming for the doctors.
As a lung and ICU specialist, I have practiced medicine for 14 years and successfully treated more than 450 patients during the pandemic. Long before anyone had heard of Covid-19, I was studying and implementing cutting-edge methods to treat critically ill patients. I’m the Senior Editor of a best-selling textbook in my field, now in its second edition, which has been translated into seven languages.
For my efforts, I now find myself on the receiving end of “disciplinary sanctions” from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), who sent me a letter threatening “suspension or revocation of board certification.”
The “sin” threatening to end my medical career was my unwillingness to go along with Fauci’s monolithic vaccines-above-all-else strategy. The failure of this approach is plain to see, and anyone with an ounce of curiosity knows there are many methods of treating the virus.
Ivermectin is one of them. This cheap, readily available generic medicine is approved by the FDA for certain uses in humans – but not for Covid-19, despite 85 controlled trials from around the world demonstrating its effectiveness. In Brazil, the largest study to date found a reduction in Covid mortality rate of 70%. In India, the second most populated country in the world, the drug has been credited with near eradication of the disease. Studies attempting to discredit ivermectin have been debunked again and again.
Other trials, such as the recent TOGETHER trial, are designed to fail from the start to drive a desired narrative. In the National Institutes of Health’s ACTIV-6, despite starting the majority of patients on treatment after five days of Covid-19 symptoms at a lower than recommended dose, they found a statistically significant reduction in the time to recovery, particularly among the most severely ill. Unsurprisingly, major newspapers reported that the study showed ivermectin was ineffective.
Despite ivermectin’s proven effectiveness, in the opinion of the ABIM, advocating for its usage is a form of “disinformation” and carries the penalty of losing one’s medical license and livelihood.
Throughout the pandemic, I’ve maintained an open mind, analyzed what works for patients, discussed strategies with fellow doctors, and conducted my own extensive research. When new data arose that changed my understanding, I admitted as much and changed course—like with the vaccines. If only the powers that be at the ABIM and our government could say the same.
Consider the evolution of accepted facts about Covid-19 safety measures from Fauci and his ilk. Despite government mandates, neither lockdowns nor cloth masks prevent transmission. They never have. It turns out former Surgeon General Jerome Adams had it right when he tweeted in March 2020 that masks are, “NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus” – a comment for which he was pilloried. We are only beginning to learn the impact of the societal costs of these early preventative measures, a price our children who were kept home from school will be paying for years.
Second, there is no evidence the vaccines stop Covid-19, despite the constant lecturing from the Biden Administration and the mainstream media. In the United States and globally, cases continue to rise and fall without any correlation to the pace or percentage of population vaccinated. This is not what we were promised. In 2021, Fauci said vaccinated people were “dead ends” for the virus, and President Biden declared, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” Today, approximately 110,000 cases are announced daily in America, where more than two thirds of the population is fully vaccinated.
There is a backlash brewing in America right now, and it goes beyond inflation rates and gas prices. People are tired of arrogant public officials and compromised institutions who believe they have all the answers but constantly get it wrong and make no apologies as they steamroll those who don’t support the current narrative. The ABIM’s sudden (and suspiciously well-funded) persecution of doctors who stray from the party line is only the latest example.
Doctors on the ABIM’s board and across the country need to stand up against this witch hunt. It’s demeaning to honest doctors and dangerous to the patients we’ve dedicated our careers to serving.
And then he takes it a step farther, exposing some of the inner workings of our credentialing systems..
So, what is the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) then? The ABIM is a “Certification” Board, with their certification purportedly denoting a higher level of knowledge and skill than the supposedly “average,” non-Board certified physician. To achieve this distinction, all you need to do is pay an increasingly obscene Board exam fee and then pass the test. It should go without saying that these tests have high passing rates. Anyway, pass the test, and voila, you become “Board Certified.” It gives off an appearance of higher credibility so you can introduce yourself or be introduced with, “Dr. Kory is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine.”…
…Recently, when the ABIM added more costly and burdensome requirements beyond the exam, doctors across the country revolted and brought a class action lawsuit. They argued that the ABIM was a monopoly extorting money out of physicians purportedly with the goal of improving knowledge and skill but without evidence that it was actually accomplishing that. The suit actually argued that the ABIM's MOC program was designed chiefly to produce revenue for their board as detailed in this article by the investigative journalist and Pulitzer prize finalist Kurt Eichenwald. Further, they fought the ABIM because increasing numbers of health insurance companies and health systems began requiring doctors to be “Board Certified” in order to be employed or part of a health insurance network. Hence the feeling of being extorted by a monopoly power.
This needs to happen. It’s not just vindication. The broken system needs to be exposed. Because right now, our doctors are not free to “First Do No Harm.”
It’s not just doctors either.
We all need our voices back.
We all need our choices back.
Show your support for Dr. McCullough and Dr. Kory on social media by using the hashtag #LetDoctorsBeDoctors and tagging (@ACIMcert) on Twitter.
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/news/2022/06/letdoctorsbedoctors-mccullough-kory/77486/
How do we contact the communists to fight for the doctor?