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January 26, 2022 05:26 PM 21 hours ago


PRO-IVERMECTIN KANSAS DOCTOR-LAWMAKER UNDER INVESTIGATION

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A Kansas doctor-lawmaker who has prescribed a parasitic worm treatment for
COVID-19 symptoms acknowledged Wednesday that the state medical board has been
investigating him since the summer of 2020.

Conservative Republican state Sen. Mark Steffen disclosed the Kansas Board of
Healing Arts' investigation of him during a Senate committee hearing. He was
testifying in favor of a bill that would require pharmacists to fill
prescriptions for both the anti-worm treatment ivermectin and the anti-malaria
drug hydroxychloroquine for potentially dangerous off-label uses in treating
COVID-19.

Steffen said the medical board has been investigating him for 18 months over
statements dating back to his brief time as a local county commissioner before
he took his Senate seat in January 2021. He said no hearings have been
scheduled.



"They're using it to hold over me, to think they're going to silence me as I
serve as a state senator," he told the committee. "And obviously, that's not
working out for them."



During the committee's two days of hearings, several Kansas doctors reported
having trouble getting ivermectin prescriptions filled by pharmacists. Committee
Chair Richard Hilderband, a conservative Republican from southeast Kansas, said
he expects the bill to win the panel's approval after it is debated next week.

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"That is something between a doctor and a patient, on what their best way
forward on care is," Hilderbrand said.

Steffen is among the Republican-controlled Legislature's most vocal skeptics of
masks and COVID-19 vaccines and critics of the U.S. government's and Democratic
Gov. Laura Kelly's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He is an
anesthesiologist and pain-management specialist from Hutchinson, a city of
40,000 residents about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Wichita.

Steffen even suggested that Kelly pushed the board to keep his case "in
perpetual limbo" as a threat to him. The governor appoints the medical board's
members, but Kelly said she had "nothing to do with it."

"I can't take credit for it," she told reporters. "This is the first I've heard
of it."

While medical groups and health experts have worked to stamp out the use of
ivermectin for treating COVID-19, hospitals around the nation have faced
lawsuits over their refusal to give it to patients.

Ivermectin is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat
infections of lice, roundworms and other tiny parasites in humans. The FDA has
tried to debunk claims that animal-strength versions of the drug can help fight
COVID-19, warning that large doses can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,
seizures, delirium and even death.

And on Wednesday, top officials at two large Kansas health systems, Ascension
Via Christi and University of Kansas Health, submitted testimony opposing the
bill forcing pharmacists to fill ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine
prescriptions, saying it "directly conflicts" with standards for pharmacists and
physicians.

"We could not voice stronger opposition to actions such as mandating licensed
professionals to act against their professional judgment and against their own
licensing standards," they said.

Susan Gile, the Kansas medical board's acting executive director, declined to
respond to Steffen's comments, saying that the board does not confirm or deny
ongoing investigations. She told the Kansas Senate committee that off-label uses
of drugs are "not uncommon," but a doctor still has a duty to do "what a
reasonable physician would have done under the same or similar circumstance."

Steffen said the investigation does not involve complaints from patients. He
said in an interview that he has prescribed ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment,
though he did not provide details.

Asked whether he still writes such prescriptions, he said: "I'd be more than
happy to do it for people."

Steffen is not he only doctor-politician to defy the medical consensus and U.S.
government guidance on COVID-19 or promote dubious medical advice. In Maryland,
Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, also an anesthesiologist, said on a radio
program in September that he wrote an ivermectin prescription but couldn't get
pharmacies to fill it.

And U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, another conservative Kansas Republican, said
during his 2020 campaign that he took regular doses of hydroxychloroquine and
last year promoted the unsupported theory that infected people have strong and
long-lasting enough natural immunity to not need vaccinations.

Nebraska's Republican state attorney general said in October  that he wouldn't
prosecute doctors for ivermectin prescriptions for treating COVID-19 as long as
they had patients' consent. In Kansas, state Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a
Republican running for governor against Kelly this year, said he's not been
asked to render an opinion and hasn't researched the issue.

"I just haven't had a reason to look at it," he told The AP. "Generally, I think
that doctors ought to control the care of their patients — I mean, that is my
general approach."

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