Decision after surgical center required vaccine proof and refused hospital privileges for treating COVID patient with Ivermectin
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden announced Saturday that she will only accept new patients who are unvaccinated. The ENT doctor in Houston said she is taking a stand for people who can’t find treatment elsewhere.
Bowden, said her policy has resulted in being reported to the Texas Medical Board and negative attacks online by other doctors. But, she told me in an interview Monday, that she is not backing down.
“I didn’t realize the amount of despair unvaccinated people felt because no one is speaking for them,” Dr. Bowden told me. “No one is voicing what’s going on. Doctors for the most part are just going along because of what you saw happened to me — vicious backlash and trying to take my license away.”
Bowden emailed her current patients Saturday that her decision came after a combination of being told she can no longer operate on unvaccinated patients at a surgery center and having hospital privileges denied for trying to give Ivermectin to a dying COVID patient. She emailed her patients on Saturday:
I am not anti-vaccination, but all the data I have collected suggests that the vaccine is not working. 42% of the patients we treated last month with IV monoclonal antibodies for symptomatic COVID were fully vaccinated.
I believe vaccination is a personal choice and like everything else in medicine, should be protected by HIPAA. I understand if this alienates many of you, but all my opinions are based on my clinical experience and not the news.
Dr. Bowden cannot be written off as a kook. She is on staff at Houston’s prestigious Methodist Hospital. She did her residency at at Stanford University and is board-certified in both Otolaryngology and Sleep Medicine. She has been practicing in Houston since 2003 and opened her own practice, BreatheMD, in 2019.
Bowden said multiple medical events led her to change her practice’s policy on new patients. A major factor was being told she needs to provide proof of COVID vaccination to continue operating in a small surgical center.
The final straw was the email I received from one of the surgery centers I operate at. I was informed that in order to continue operating, myself and my patients would need to provide proof of vaccination. I kindly told them that was not going to work for me, and I would operate elsewhere.
Unvaccinated patients policy
This is what Bowden emailed her current patients about her new policy:
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