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Exclusive: Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Shares Why She Sued Hospital That Suspended...

• https://childrenshealthdefense.org, David Marks

In early November 2021, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist in Houston, Texas, received a plea for help from the wife of a COVID patient in the intensive care unit of a Fort Worth hospital.

"She wanted the doctors to try ivermectin and they were refusing, and she needed somebody to testify in court on her husband's behalf," Bowden said in an interview with The Defender.

"Imagine that your 48-year-old husband, the father of your six children, is suffering at the ICU, and the doctors would risk him dying rather than trying ivermectin."

Bowden's first instinct was to agree to testify — likely because she has always practiced medicine from a patient-focused perspective.

"So often the people you deal with at a front desk don't even make eye contact," Bowden said. "You're filling out the same form every time, then you sit there for hours with no one telling you what's going on — it's very inefficient. That really motivated me to try something different."

For Bowden, being a good doctor is not just about science. "I wanted a practice that was very patient-friendly and oriented to customer service," Bowden told The Defender.

"To see me, people can schedule appointments online — you don't have to spend 20 minutes on the phone going over the details of your insurance. My office is located in a strip mall, so it's ground-level parking where you can easily get in and out."


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