About 100 protesters are here to support Dr. Paul Merrick.

He's done something that's so transformative, that's so maverick.

Dr. Merrick has treated over 150 septic patients the same way.

Time after time, they survive.

Dr. Paul Merrick teared up outside the Norfolk courthouse Thursday, surrounded by a group of supporters.

And what they're basically doing is telling me how to treat patients and what to use and what not to use.

Dr. Merrick has been cited over 48,000 times in peer-reviewed publications and

because certainly one of those doctors who've been persecuted for treating patients.

What's happening now is completely unprecedented in the history of medicine and across the world.

We have the federal government, we have state agencies and hospitals.

Telling doctors how to practice medicine, they interfering with the sacred patient-physician relationship.

Dr. Merrick had been reading about the healing powers of vitamin C.

And just on a hunch, gave it to Valerie intravenously, along with Hydrocortisone.

This is quite miraculous in that patients who are critically ill, who are at death's door.

When we give them this very simple combination of medications, it turns around their septic process

and within hours they significantly better.

Reaction from the medical community to what you had proposed and done has been very mixed at best,

hostile at worst.

People are displeased with me because here we found a very simple, cheap, easy way of dealing with

sepsis. They just didn't like the idea that a vitamin which is cheap could save people's lives.

It was against the narratives.

The question is to you, if your daughter was an ICU dying of septic shock, would you deny her

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