A doctor in Houston had joined a growing list of medical professionals who are getting shunned by the medical community at-large for promoting “COVID misinformation.”
Dr. Mary Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist, had her hospital privileges at Houston Methodist Hospital revoked after she used her Twitter account to rail against vaccine mandates and tout the use of Ivermectin in the treatment of COVID, a use the parasite-fighting drug has not been cleared for.
In fact, the FDA called using Ivermectin as a COVID treatment “dangerous” and potentially fatal.
“The physician’s privileges at Houston Methodist have been suspended,” a hospital spokesperson told the Washington Post via email.
For her part, Bowden has been silent on the hospital’s public denouncement of her recent online statements but had previously said plenty on Twitter.
And Bowden’s attorney, Steve Mitby, told the Washington Post in an email that Bowden is “not anti-vaccine.”
“Like many Americans, Dr. Bowden believes that people should have a choice and believes that all people, regardless of vaccine status, should have access to the same high quality health care,” Mitby wrote.
Houston Methodist lost over 150 employees earlier this year when they instituted their own vaccine mandate, and it’s not the only medical facility that Bowden is feuding with at the moment.
She’s also embroiled in a legal dispute with Texas Health Huguley Hospital over whether she can be granted temporary privileges to administer Ivermectin to Jason Jones, a deputy with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office who has been hospitalized with COVID for over a month.
In court documents, Texas Health Huguley has said using the drug to treat COVID is “outside of the standard of care,” despite a lawsuit by Jones’s wife arguing to let her husband be administered the drug.
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