The Dr's Corner: Pre-Launch

Co-Hosts Sherri Belmar and Dr. Margaret Aranda

I loved meeting everyone yesterday at the Pre-Launch of our first Dr's Corner Program!   It was wonderful to have the support and positivity!  We are here to build community, share our lives with you, and answer your questions.

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Initially, Sherri asked me what expertise brings me here to the show. More on that later…

Bringing our community together, I answered a variety of questions, some pre-submitted and some spontaneous, such as:  

COVID TESTS

Are all tests for COVID as unreliable as the PCR test? 

PCR Tests

What is the mechanism that causes the "home" tests to be unreliable?

Ivermectin vs. HCQ

Which is better to take for Covid Ivermectin or HCQ? What is the dosing and regimen for each?

Coping with Anxiety

What's the best way to keep from getting over-anxious about what is happening in the world today?

You will be shocked and amazed at my personal story, particularly how I was treated as a patient, doctor and a female. Watch now or read on for a bit of a spoiler!

After training at USC and Stanford in both anesthesiology and critical care, I was Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and then UCLA. On the way home from visiting where my father’s nursing home for Alzheimer’s, I told my tale of being hit by a distracted driver and sustaining a traumatic brain injury and dysautonomia/POTS. After an incredible 12 years bedridden and seeking help from 26 doctors, I fought for my diagnosis and eventually recovered. I told you how I was treated, and how it felt.

I credit God with my miraculous recovery.

I recounted my brain-injured years and Near-Death Experience, described in my first book, No More Tears: A Physician-Turned- Patient Inspires Recovery. After getting tougher and stronger and realizing I had to fight to live, I then wrote The Rebel Patient: Fight for Your Diagnosis! Here I teach you the universal way all doctors think and write, and how to be strong and keep fighting to negotiate through a failing medical system.

After twelve bedridden years, I assumed the spinal cord injury clinic of Forest Tennant, MD, MPH and wrote a pain protocol from what I learned, the Guidebook to Low Back Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment. My book is on exhibit at the American Library Association Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., from June 23, 2022 (my birthday!) to June 28, 2022. The Press release is here: https://bit.ly/3HLrTGx

Sit back as I exhibit my torn heart. I apologize for the “standard of care” given as a general pandemic response. I explain the Hippocratic oath and that not every doctor took it upon medical school graduation, and why many doctors are uncomfortable or unqualified to use off-label drugs they had never prescribed. So you don’t blame them.

You see, as a resident anesthesiologist, I regularly trained in giving intravenous drugs that did everything from paralyze to reverse paralysis; I saw patients go unconscious, put them to sleep, and then woke them up and got them breathing again. As a Fellow in Stanford’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), I put ventilated, paralyzed patients on drips that established blood pressure, organ perfusion, paralysis, and sedation.

My training made me uniquely qualified to try newly advised, lifesaving, off-label drugs for COVID-19. I credit the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) for “teaching” me how to prevent hospitalizations from COVID, via their I-MASK+ Protocol.

My biggest job was now to keep patients out of the hospitals that I loved.

But for a few patients, all recovered. I described that once hospitalized, the only patients that died were unable to continue care with protocol medications. My only deaths occurred in hospitalized patients who reportedly got Remdesivir without patient or family permission, then died.

In closing, I was happy to share my faith in God and this scripture,

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and of a sound mind”. ~ 2 Timothy 1:7

Stay amazed and join us every Wednesday at 12:30 pm (PST)

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Pre-Launch, June 22, 2022