Guest: Dr. John Littell is a board certified family physician in Ocala, Florida, in practice since 1990. He served seven years as an Army physician, including a 1992 deployment to Guantanamo Bay caring for Haitian refugees picked up at sea, and he later served as chief of staff of a Florida hospital system. During the pandemic he was one of a very small number of American physicians treating COVID patients with early, off-label therapy, and he organized the meeting in San Juan that produced the Rome Declaration and the COVID summits that followed. He is the author of The Hidden Truth. Key topics: Why he calls the exam room sacred ground, and the paper he wrote on the patient physician relationship for a group of Republican physician congressmen The Medicare annual wellness visit he demonstrated live on Congressman Pete Sessions, and why he calls it the Obamacare Medicare nightmare The hospital system that told its own doctors in 2021 they no longer needed to walk into a COVID patient's room The chief executive who disciplined him for walking a hallway without a mask and told him doctors needed to be lockstep on policy The nurse who cared for the county's first COVID fatality for twelve straight hours and was refused a test at the hospital where she had worked for twenty years The twelve doctors on the Zoom call, the Last Supper hanging behind one of them, and the mission he believes they were handed Respiratory therapists telling him patients were being put on ventilators too quickly, and what BiPAP did to brittle lungs The frontline protocol: ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, high dose steroids, blood thinners, montelukast, colchicine, inhaled budesonide, antihistamines Off label prescribing in plain English, from trazodone for insomnia to quinine from the cinchona tree Labor Day weekend 2020 in San Juan, the Rome Declaration, and the first COVID summit at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala The new mother, hypoxic with her baby in the crib beside her, and the ivermectin he carried into that room in his own pocket The mayor who got the full therapeutic dose from the hospital formulary and was duck hunting a week later His best friend, the priest who took off a glove to anoint him, and the security alert the hospital placed on the family Montana and Michigan in the 1990s: labeled an impaired provider, blackballed as a pro-life physician, and entered in the National Practitioner Data Bank Why he believes his children's generation will never sit still for it again Timestamped breakdown: 00:00:00 — Cold open: thirty years in family medicine 00:00:30 — Why he was born to be a family doctor 00:04:05 — The sacred bond between a patient and a physician 00:08:45 — Personalized health care, and what Obamacare did to the exam room 00:09:33 — 2021: doctors told they no longer needed to enter the COVID ward 00:10:43 — The Medicare annual wellness visit, demonstrated on a congressman 00:12:11 — Guantanamo Bay, 1992, and the only triage that compares 00:13:10 — The nurse he pulled out of the emergency room 00:13:47 — Lockstep: disciplined for walking a hallway without a mask 00:15:23 — The first fatality in Ocala, and the nurse refused a test 00:16:36 — Twelve doctors on a Zoom call, and the Last Supper behind one of them 00:17:51 — Jenny Beth Martin on Bannon, Simone Gold, and the white coat event 00:24:00 — The letter to the White House and how the doctor networks were built 00:27:24 — Respiratory therapists in the hallway: they are going on ventilators too fast 00:27:50 — What BiPAP did to lungs that had gone brittle 00:28:37 — What the hospitals were paid per COVID patient 00:29:45 — Inflammation, microthrombosis, and the treatment cocktail 00:31:20 — Delta hits, and the scramble to change the protocol 00:32:03 — Pharmacies, prescriptions, and public enemy number one 00:32:20 — Labor Day weekend 2020: the meeting in San Juan 00:34:00 — No one size fits all, and the tenets of the declaration 00:36:00 — Off label prescribing, quinine, and where ivermectin came from 00:40:28 — Puerto Rico to Rome, and roughly ten thousand signatures 00:41:47 — The first COVID summit at the World Equestrian Center 00:44:29 — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the calls about coming to Washington 00:46:15 — Two cities, six hospitals, and why he will not give up privileges 00:47:57 — Ivermectin in his pocket: the new mother who was turning blue 00:51:28 — The mayor who was duck hunting a week later 00:52:20 — His best friend, the priest, and the security alert 00:54:23 — This morning in the doctors' lounge 00:55:26 — The Giver, and who sees the red apple 00:56:04 — Jenny Beth Martin on her father the minister, and what COVID really cost 01:00:28 — The personal price: letters, a medical board, and an investigation 01:01:45 — Montana: labeled an impaired provider for being too zealous 01:02:53 — Hillsdale, Michigan, and being kicked off staff for making house calls 01:04:22 — Blackballed in two states, and the letters that got him to Florida 01:07:48 — Why he is an optimist about the next generation 01:08:30 — Closing Links mentioned: Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com