Profile in Valor: Emergency Physician, Former State Senator, Dr. David Hartsuch

Doctor Takes on Iowa Medical Board for Using "Prior Restraint" to Strip Freedom of Speech and Impede Community Standard of Care

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

I was sitting in the front of a large ballroom at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons when a booming voice from the back of the room said the medical boards could be sued pro se (by an individual) for violation of our civil liberties.

It was emergency physician and former State Senator Dr. David Hartsuch (R-IA). So I took the liberty of inviting him on my show to learn more about what he was saying. As you will learn from this interview, Dr. Hartsuch is a man of action. His treatment of acute COVID-19 was bold and innovative with advances in salt-water balance and attention to the most severe cases so they did not end up in the hospital.

In response to crushing prohibition of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, Dr. Hartsuch did not sit back and take it, he went out and proactively went after the Iowa Medical Board for not following due process with board approval for these new and illegal proclamations against drugs doctors had found useful and incorporated into the evolving standard of care for high-risk COVID-19.

On offense, not defense, Hartsuch is suing the Iowa State Medical Board for their actions that injured patients and doctors for what he calls “prior restraint.” Prior restraint is judicial suppression of material that would be published or broadcast, on the grounds that it is libelous or harmful. In US law, the First Amendment severely limits the ability of the government and their state actors (i.e. medical and pharmacy boards) to do this.

Please be sure to listen to this wide-ranging and very useful interview with one of America’s true medical heroes, Dr. David Hartsuch.

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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

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David Hartsuch MD MS, 3rd

Discussion about this video

At 27 min into the interview Dr Hartsuch describes the collusion of ALL the medical boards in the USA, en masse apparently, putting out a combined narrative threatening punishment to doctors prescribing HCQ, and, lying to them that supplies were low. This was done within days of the President of the United States announcing to the world that HCQ "was a gamechanger."

By G-d, I want to know what actions and by whom(!) precipitated this action!

-- Attorneys prosecuting against the mandates, against the vax propaganda, against big Pharma getting a pass on prosecution for harms done NEED to use discovery motions to ferret this out.

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They were "directed" from elsewhere to make that move; the PTB made that decision, and gave those boards no choice but comply or suffer the consequences, and those are political critters too, so they complied. The ones I really blame are the "boots on the ground" practitioners, MDs, DOs, and RNs alike, who went along with the murderous protocol set up; EVERY ONE of them KNEW they were murdering patients and did so anyway!

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100% Sandra.

Complicity is the same as originators.

Worse, when you consider the cowardice spawned and the bravery of our ancestors forgotten.

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I agree; I was explaining,not excusing.

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There is a reason why the practice of medicine has always been referred to as an art & a science. Dr. Hartsuch is a perfect example of that. Once you remove the artistry, what is left is algorithmic medicine, which is what the medical boards & regulators have attempted to create & legislate. My father, who practiced internal medicine from the mid 1940s - the mid 1970s, saw this coming with the HMOs. Just prior to his retirement, he said that he would be damned if some clerk in an office 500-miles away would tell him when he needed to discharge his patients from the hospital. I have no doubt that he is rolling in his grave, based on what has transpired over the last 50-yrs. since he made that statement.

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A Brave soul.

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We need more people with his courage and drive. Great Idea, go on offence before you are forced into defence.

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This is one of the best interviews ever. Love Dr. Hartsuch and Dr. McCullough.

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Thank you!

Please go after the Psychotic Medical Boards who Murdered many-many people by their Malicious, purposeful actions!

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All of us must do so- it's the only way!

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Doctors like Sherri Tenpenny, Meryl Nass, Ryan Cole, Pierre Kory, even Dr Peter McCullough have been attacked by medical licensing boards, bureaus or have even lost jobs as employers fired those who speak the truth. I hope this lawsuit model can help all of these folks to fight back and win millions in damages against those who denied civil liberties, free speech, and the right to practice medicine without prior restraint.

Also, new laws need to be pursued to stop the lying petty tyrants from dictating ANY medical procedures or protocols and make them liable for failing to provide fully informed consent for anything they advocate. This includes government health departments, which imposed mandates, masks, and lockdowns, often run by bureaucrats who are not even medical doctors.

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Getting such laws past the political minions inhabiting legislatures is going to be a very steep uphill battle.

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We need to infiltrate and take over those Legislatures. ; ))

As in, Government By, For and Of, the People.

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That's what elections are for, except we can't get candidates to run, or stay the course of they do get elected; they all end up poisoned by the swamp, even at the local level.

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Can't give up the fight.

Just keep plugging away until more people are fed up with the ignorance and corruption.

Eventually the pendulum swings back towards honesty, integrity and the Rule of Law!

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Time to look beyond our borders and coastlines, and see the whole panorama of what is going on and unfolding. America is not the focal point; Jerusalem is. Individuals here may be saved, America will not. She will be buried under her sins and they are many, as a nation. This is a spiritual war, between Yhwh God and Satan, aka "Allah", and it will be fought primarily in and around Israel. There is no longer time for the pendulum to swiping back now. We're too near the return of Jesus, and His millennial kingdom on Earth.

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Thank you sir.

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That was so good. All I had were those sweats and I'm much more informed. Bravo to both of you.

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Great doctor and political activist. I wish they spent more time talking about the legal components of the lawsuit. I wanted to know how other doctors could start lawsuits like this against other state boards of medicine and state boards of pharmacy.

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Same at any lawsuit in the given state is started! Medical boards are not sacrosanct.

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and one more thing!

What?! So some Joe Schmo without authorization put out the statement representing that the board was against HCQ while NOT being sanctioned by the board? And, ALL the med boards in the USA did the same. I call that baloney. These boards lied; had a voice vote without board meeting minutes and used this strategy to have "plausible deniability." Another strategy from the Democratic(Socialist) party.

all this said, What a great interview. Thanks Doctors for all you have done to spotlight the collusion and fraud perpetrated by our government and Medical Boards across the USA.

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What a great interview. Question: When the FDA sent the letter to the Medical Boards and the Pharmacy Boards, did they also send (or promise) money?

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This was an EXCELLENT interview!!!! Dr. Hartsuch is another courageous and brilliant physician.

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FYI, my local pharmacy (not even a chain pharmacy) not only refused to fill my ivermectin prescription in 2021, but the pharmacist stated to me that they were instructed by the Massachusetts State Pharmacy Board to NOT fill them. I would love to file a lawsuit, as I was not able to fill the script for several days (had to have it mailed to me), and really suffered greatly for several days until the ivermectin arrived and I was able to take it.

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Yes, The Toxic Gardasil Vaccine has caused Death and Debilitary Injuries. Protect your Teens- SAY NO TO GARDASIL!!

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At around 17 minutes in your cohost talks around the HPV storyline does anyone not seen Gabi Swanks story from the Greater Good documentary. Also, the stories I'm now reading on the nagalase. People seem to enthused in chemicals this and that. Healthy people shouldn't need a repeat bandaid system. Broken to the core. Needs fixing.

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Bravo to Dr. Hortsuch because his actions of speaking up, and speaking out against power brokers delegation of abuse of power by those brokers (Medical Boards in bed with USA government policy makers) is demonstrative of "let the people have their Say, and the Final Say" .

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Iowa? One of thee most corrupt states in the country (contrary to the nonsense from Trump). The first link is my SPOD for Iowa Kim Reynolds, a so-called Republican:

http://pvsheridan.com/SPOD-modRNA-ltr-GOV_KIM_REYNOLDS.pdf

That SPOD confirms that Reynolds received my letter, a 1" binder, as a courtesy copy of letter sent to Congresswoman Mace, Congressman Jordan, and Congresswoman Luna. Note my discussion of Reynolds "contribution" to the health, not of Iowans, but of PFIZER !!! See page 18 of 22:

https://www.pvsheridan.com/sheridan2mace_jordan_luna-1-3august2023-cvr.pdf

McCullough article above speaks to, quote, the "crushing prohibition of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin."

Of course . . . when the Iowa governor WHO IS ALSO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION (RGA) has secret meetings with the modRNA criminal Albert Bourla, what would you expect. Doubt me? Try this:

https://rumble.com/v29yc7q-pfizer-albert-bourla-secret-meeting-with-republican-governors-association-r.html

I have called and spoken with Governor Reynolds' staff no less than three times asking for information about the secret RGA / Bourla meeting, and was essentially told to go Fauci myself.

I want to know who called the meeting, why was it held in-secret, what was discussed, were there meeting minutes, will there be more meetings between so-called republican governors and Bourla . . . again, I was told to go Fauci myself.

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