Doctors and hospital administrators are facing yet another way in which the pandemic has shaken up social and medical norms: a string of lawsuits in which judges have ordered them to treat patients with ivermectin, a drug that lacks any scientific evidence of effectiveness.... I’m passionate about this because I truly believe in it.” But legal experts and bioethicists say that judges who order treatments with unproven and unapproved drugs are overstepping the law and responsible judicial author

A Texas appeals court has just punched a hole in the emerging trend of judges ordering hospitals to treat COVID patients with the drug ivermectin.“ Judges are not doctors, ” Appellate Judge Bonnie Sudderth wrote in a unanimous three-judge decision issued Nov.... The Jones case was notable because a trial judge ordered the hospital to allow the patient to be treated with ivermectin.... It’s one of several lawsuits around the country in which judges have ordered hospitals to clear the way for th