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In the Texas Senate, there's a bill set to be heard today that would protect doctors from being punished by the State Medical Board for prescribing Ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill also protects those who prescribed hydroxychloroquine, budesonide, or didn't mask up.
The bill is SB-2422, and Dr. Mary Talley Bowden says it would help return the Texas Medical Board to its original purpose. She said, "The Texas Medical Board is a bureaucratic agency with no oversight. They have abused their powers, and this is one way to rein them in."
Dr. Bowden is just one of many Texas doctors who were targeted by the Medical Board because of treatment options she pursued for her patients during COVID-19. She prescribed Ivermectin to a patient whose wife had requested it, resulting in a hospital reporting her to the Medical Board.
Dr. Bowden says since then, she's spent over $250,000 fighting the Medical Board in the courts. She said, "They've become weaponized against doctors that don't fall in line with the narrative. That's what they've done with me."
SB-2422 would also force the Medical Board to vacate any past disciplinary actions taken against Bowden, or any other doctors related to prescribing alternative COVID-19 treatments, or masking, and allow them to recoup related legal fees.