Dr. John Witcher, an emergency room physician at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, said was "told not to come back" after taking several COVID-19 patients off Remdesivir, which is approved by the FDA to treat the virus, and allowed them to use ivermectin.

"I was very surprised that I was basically told to not come back at the end of the day," Witcher said on the Stew Peters podcast.

"These patients were under my direct care, and so I felt like taking them off Remdesivir and putting them on ivermectin was the right thing to do at the time."

Baptist Memorial told news outlets that Witcher "no longer practices medicine as an independent physician" at the Yazoo City facility, adding that he was an independent contractor, not an employee at the facility.

The hospital system said that it follows "the standards of care recommended by the scientific community and our medical team in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19" such as vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments.