How to Get Intravenous Vitamin C Given to a Hospitalized Patient

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How to Get Intravenous Vitamin C Given to a

Hospitalized Patient

 

Intravenous Vitamin C Checklist

 

1) Know before you go. It is immeasurably easier to

get what you want if you contract for it beforehand.

Prenuptial agreements, new car deals, roofing and

siding estimates, and hospital care need to be

negotiated in advance. When the tow truck comes, it

is too late to complain about who’s driving. Same

with an ambulance, or a hasty hospital admission. You

have to pre-plan, and here’s how:

 

2) Get a letter. Yes, a “note from the doctor” still

carries clout. Have you general practitioner, today

if possible, sign a letter stating that he backs your

request for a vitamin C I.V. drip, 10 grams per 12

hours, should you (or your designated loved one)

require hospitalization. Have copies made and keep

them handy. Update the letter annually. You now have

your G.P.’s permission. Good start, but not enough.

 

3) Get some more letters. Obtain a similar letter

form every specialist that you have used, are using,

or may use in the foreseeable future. This sounds

cumbersome, but is no more unmanageable than most

people’s grocery lists. Keep it in perspective: this

is just as important as wearing a medical alert

bracelet or keeping a fresh battery in Grandpa’s

pacemaker.

 

4) Make some calls. Telephone a representative or two

from every hospital within one hundred miles of your

home. Find out which wants your business the most.

When you find a “live one” on the phone, write down

their name and title, and follow up with a letter.

 

5) Write for your rights. In your letter, ask for the

hospital’s permission to have a vitamin C IV drip,

infusion, push or injection, as well as oral vitamin

C, should you or your designated family member(s) come

in to that hospital. YOU MUST GET THIS IN WRITING.

Now, do NOT say, “I want that in writing,” because

people do not like that. But if you WRITE to them by

US Mail, they will naturally write back to you. Bingo.

 

Helpful hint: do NOT correspond by email; you want a

real signature on hospital letterhead. (And no, don’t

ask for that either! It will happen automatically if

you write first.)

 

You might be wondering, What if they write back, “No,

we won’t.” Hold onto that letter. You can make a real

stink with it should you need to play hardball in

court, and I do NOT mean a handball court.

 

These actions are much more likely, however:

 

a) They simply will not write back. OK, so ask

yourself this: What if your credit card company didn’t

respond to your letters? So would you entrust your

life to a hospital that refuses to even answer their

mail? Make a point to go someplace else. If you live

in a rural community or smaller city, you might be

thinking that you do not have a choice of hospitals.

Maybe not for the first 24 hours in an unexpected

circumstance. But people can be moved. That’s what

modern transportation is for. Famous hospitals get

people from all over. How many people do you know

that live within walking distance of Sloan-Ketterling,

Roswell, the Brigham, or the Mayo Clinic?

 

b) What is most likely is that the hospital’s

representative will send you a garbage answer, with a

response so noncommittal as to be unusable. This may

mean that your wrote the wrong person, or wrote the

wrong letter. Try this: have your doctor “write” the

letter. The doctor’s letterhead and signature; your

composition. Go ahead; you can give a professional a

rough draft of what you want said. I had lawyer ask

me to do exactly that when I sought (and succeeded in

getting) a vitamin C IV into my hospitalized father.

I wrote it and faxed it to the attorney; his staff

rewrote it on his stationery and he signed it. It

saves time.

 

Helpful hint: Be sure your (doctor’s) letter clearly

REQUESTS A REPLY.

 

Another Helpful hint: FAX wherever you can to save

time. Always send a back-up copy of the letter by

postal mail. Then, write again to confirm that they

received it.

 

c) It is also quite possible that they will ask for

more information. This could be a genuine interest,

but it is more likely a stall. If you think Nero

fiddled whilst Rome burned, you should see what

medical bureaucrats can do. To cut through the

treacle, you need to understand the nature of the

beast. The first rule of lion taming is, You have to

know more than the lions. Therefore:

 

6. Know the law. Many states have enacted legislation

that makes it possible for a physician to provide any

natural therapy that a patient requests without fear

of losing his or her license. If your state has such a

law, it will make it somewhat easier to get a doctor

to prescribe a vitamin C IV.

 

7. Know the power structure. Find out who is in

charge.

 

I have heard doctors say that they’d be happy to start

a megavitamin C IV but the hospital will not let them.

Then, when asked, I have heard the hospital say that

they allow vitamin C IV’s but the doctors won’t do

them. To avoid an endless Catch-22 situation, you

have to know the ropes and where everybody stands.

 

On the doctor side:

Which physician (as opposed to witch doctor) is in

charge? It could be the attending surgeon; it could

be your general practitioner; it could be the chief

resident. One thing is for sure: someone has the power

to prescribe. Go to the person that can do you the

most good (or harm) and start your negotiations there.

If you can persuade the king, the castle is yours.

 

On the hospital side:

Which of the administrators has the clout? Talk to

their secretaries (they are the people who really run

things anyway) and you will find out. It could be that

the most influential person for you may be the

hospital’s patient rights advocate or V. P. for

customer service. It might even be the public

relations director. Who knows? You sure don’t, so

remove the veil of anonymity and find out.

 

On the patient side:

The patient, if conscious, has all the power because

it is his/her body. If a patient insists loud and

long enough, s/he can get almost anything. Since

patients tend to be sick, and therefore easily slip

into becoming non-combatants, a family member has to

get in there and pitch for them. A highly experienced

nurse told me that she would never leave a family

member in a hospital without a 24-hour-a-day guard in

the form of a friend or family member or other

advocate. That is sound advice from a lady who’s seen

it.

 

Next to the patient, the most powerful family member

is the spouse. After that, it would be children. You

do not have to have power of attorney to have power,

but it helps. If the patient is unable to speak, act,

or think, it may be essential. Do not wait until the

patient is incapacitated to plan this. Your family

needs to come together (difficult though this may be)

and present a preplanned, unified front to the medical

and administrative people. You may think I am

overstating the case, but I have seen patients die

simply because NO ONE TOOK THE REINS AND GOT THE

VITAMIN C IN THE VEINS. I have seen vitamin C IV’s

halted simply because the patient was moved to (or

from) intensive care. Think that one over. I have

seen vitamin C prescriptions over-ridden by a nurse or

a pharmacist. You would not think that possible, would

you. Well, it is. There is no nice way to phrase this.

Stay on top of the situation or you will have a

premature burial on your hands.

 

8. Know your recourse. If you are rich, get your

lawyer on the phone. Better yet, bring your lawyer

into the hospital. If you are like the rest of us,

you may simply have to bluff if you threaten to call

your attorney. The purpose here is to save the life

of your loved one, not to make a buck from a

malpractice suit. Personally, I think malpractice

suits are a sign of the most abject failure on the

part of the family, as well as the medical profession.

In the same way that accident insurance does not

prevent accidents but only pays the costs, so do

malpractice settlements fail to resuscitate a dead

family member. “Death control” is somewhat like birth

control in that you have to act before the event takes

place. But if we push the analogy, we realize a grim

truth: there is no such thing as a “morning after”

pill for rigor mortis, nor can you abort a funeral.

 

9. Know the facts about vitamin C IV’s. For this,

there is absolutely no alternative to reading up on

the subject. Here is what you will want to begin with:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cathcart.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/naturedoc.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hospitals.html

 

Professionally speaking, I am not really all that

interested in vitamins. I am, however, extremely

interested in saving life. The reading I referenced

above may make all the difference in your case.

 

10. Know how to settle controversy and avoid the

run-around.

 

Doctors and hospitals are quick to offer rather bogus

reasons why they would deny your request for a vitamin

C IV. Each of these arguments is a lot of bull, and

easily refuted.

 

Their argument: “We do not have Vitamin C for

intravenous infusion in our pharmacy”

Your response: “So get some. From another hospital;

by Fed Ex, by medevac helicopter. Or, just make it

yourselves. Look: here’s instructions on how to

prepare it, written by a highly experienced physician.

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitciv.html

 

Their argument: “We have never done this before.”

Your response: “Then this is a wonderful opportunity

to learn. I’ve never lost a (insert family member’s

position here) before.”

 

Their Argument: “The patient is too ill.”

Your response: “That’s why we want the vitamin C IV.”

 

Their argument: “We might get into trouble if we do

this.”

Your response: “You will be in legal trouble for sure

if you don’t.”

 

Their argument: “There is no scientific evidence that

this is safe, effective, appropriate for this case,

blah, blah, blah…”

Your response: “Read this.” (This short phrase is to

be spoken as you produce a large stack of actual

medical studies written by medical doctors who have

successfully used vitamin C IV’s. See references

mentioned above.)

 

Their argument: “But we do not have time to read all

those papers.”

Your response: “That’s OK. I already have, and it’s my

body (or my father’s, or my mother’s). Run the

vitamin C IV. Start with 10 grams every 12 hours and

do not stop it without my written authorization.”

 

Their argument: “This hospital operates under our

authority, these are our rules, and this is the way it

is done.”

Your response: “This is my mother. If you deny her

the treatment the family requests, you will be sued,

and we will win. Do you really want to go to the wall

on this one?”

 

Confrontational? Admittedly, yes. But I have seen

too many people die too soon. Dr. Frederick Robert

Klenner was right when he said, “Some physicians would

stand by and see their patient die rather than use

ascorbic acid (vitamin C) because in their finite

minds it exists only as a vitamin. "

 

Don’t let it happen to your family.

 

 

Reprinted from the book FIRE YOUR DOCTOR, copyright

2001 and prior years by Andrew Saul, Number 8 Van

Buren Street, Holley, New York 14470 USA Telephone

(716) 638-5357