How would you check this?

Mikkel:

There is what doctors legally say and there is what doctors do (if the patient is a family member and there is no chance whatsoever of them being sued if something goes haywire). Understand this in order to understand what any doctor says in a public forum.

Meaning-- publically, this doc will advocate for clinical double bind studies up the kazoo until the cows come home.

Let his wife, his children, or his grandchildren come down with Covid-19 and be at death's door and you'll see how fast he will whip out his script pad and do an off label usage.


Edited to add: off label usages are not covered by malpractice insurance. Hence, this doctor's reluctance to recommend this course of treatment be universally adopted as it would open up the profession to lawsuits galore unless steps were taken to legally exempt them in this particular case.


One more edit: Trump probably does not know that off label drug usages are not covered by malpractice insurance. Why would he? It's not something that people would think to discuss when desperately brainstorming to save lives. The docs were most likely thinking putting this drug through regular medical channels (which trials can take forever) and Trump, ever the businessman was thinking expediency in dispensing it (as in ASAP).

I think Trump believes it is covered under the "right to try" executive order he signed -- but that may be a legal gray area as my understanding is that was applied to fatal diseases. Covid-19 to my knowledge is not considered fatal to everyone who comes down with it. So, on that basis, the legality is a gray area.


-- Debutante