# ICU Surgeon Alleges COVID-19 Hospital Misconduct and Calls for Accountability

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2106822274624176440
- Source account: [@AtRealBen](https://x.com/AtRealBen)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 4:19
- Published: 2026-10-04
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability) During COVID-19, I was a staff surgeon ICU provider at the hospital where the first diagnosed COVID patient in the United States was treated.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=8) I cared for hundreds of COVID patients and also contracted independently to perform ICU quality reviews at the hospital in addition to my surgical and ICU duties as a physician.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=19) My reviews uncovered fraud extending to senior hospital leadership.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=23) I reported these findings. There were protocols put in place that caused-- Thank you.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=33) That p- that caused demonstrable harm and increased mortality.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=39) After our hospital was given remdesivir by federal authorities, we were provided misleading and inaccurate information about the drug by medical leadership.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=47) When I had a young trauma patient just after remdesivir was released, she appeared a perfect candidate based on the guidelines.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=55) The infectious disease doctor on call told me privately to not give it to her because, quote, "She seemed like a nice girl." unquote.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=64) Any physician honestly reviewing the real world data at that time could have recognized early that remdesivir caused more harm than good.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=75) I observed messaging by the hospital to falsely inflate COVID infections and deaths contributing to public fear and generating misleading headlines.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=84) In my experience, we never faced shortages of equipment or staff.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=88) I witnessed nurses being sent home because there were not enough patients, while headlines about our hospital were simultaneously running stating that we were overwhelmed by COVID patients.

[1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=99) I further observed mask and PPE protocols initiated during COVID lacked scientific basis and did not medically work.

[1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=107) But the mask and PPE protocols did dehumanize patients and staff.

[1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=112) I witnessed patients who died from trauma and other causes were reported as COVID-19 deaths on their death certificates.

[2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=122) I w-watched previously compassionate and devoted doctors and nurses become cruel and ambivalent about the well-being of patients as the COVID experience evolved.

[2:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=132) The head of infectious disease medicine at my hospital privately told me that he was working with the state government to restrict the civil rights of unvaccinated people, including their ability to drive and therefore work by making their driver's license renewal contingent on their COVID vaccine status.

[2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=151) Hospital leadership, including the chief medical officer of our medical group, endorsed the local medical establishment's refusal to provide healthcare to unvaccinated patients.

[2:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=161) Primary care and urgent care physicians refused to see unvaccinated patients with the chief medical officer's knowledge and approval through policy.

[2:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=172) In response, I opened a free clinic to care for those denied care through my local church. The church became a licensed clinic.

[3:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=180) I observed many of the alternative treatments were highly effective that were censored by medical societies, pharmacists, social media, the press, and established health agencies.

[3:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=191) Treatments including ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, zinc, quercetin, and just physical exercise were highly effective at treating COVID.

[3:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=201) When I advocated for patient care rather than harmful protocols and spoke against the fraud, I was targeted for removal through baseless disciplinary actions with a stated goal of taking away my medical license and ability to ever practice medicine again.

[3:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=216) I endured countless unfounded disciplinary hearings, show trials, and sham peer review procedures, which included the threat of me being arrested, and this was all in retaliation for me speaking out.

[3:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=230) I defeated every attack, I remained in good standing, and I told the truth.

[3:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=235) I witnessed physicians and nurses who observed the harms done by the COVID protocols were either silent or forced out of our community.

[4:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=244) The public health officials, hospital leaders, and physicians who implemented these treatments and protocols should be held accountable.

[4:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=252) The data were available, and the harms were obvious.

[4:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/765YFrEZVPij/en/icu-surgeon-alleges-covid-19-hospital-misconduct-and-calls-for-accountability?t=255) Accountability is necessary if we're gonna-