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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm very Tally Bowden. |
| 0:06.0 | Believe it or not, this is my first press conference. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm a solo physician. |
| 0:12.0 | I've been here for two years. |
| 0:14.0 | I started off with the attention of just doing earness and throat and sleep medicine |
| 0:20.0 | and somehow stumbled into COVID. |
| 0:23.6 | Over the span of the pandemic, I've been open seven days a week. |
| 0:27.6 | I've tested over 80,000 people and I have treated about 2,000 people. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm a good doctor. I fight for my patients. I treat my patients the way I would |
| 0:43.6 | want myself treated. So it was quite a surprise to me last Friday when I got a text message |
| 0:52.2 | from the Houston Chronicle telling me that my hospital privileges have been suspended. |
| 0:57.0 | A local doctor's privileges pulled after a series of tweets about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. |
| 1:03.0 | Ear, nose and throat specialists, Dr. Mary Bowden resigned from Houston Methodist after having her privileges revoked. |
| 1:10.0 | Houston Methodist says Bowden tweeted about the drug |
| 1:12.9 | ivermectin, which the CDC advises against, along with non-factual tweets about vaccines and the |
| 1:19.5 | hospital's practices. I have gone above and beyond. I have helped people when their primary care |
| 1:26.0 | doctors are telling them there's nothing you can do. |
| 1:28.3 | And all I've tried to do is help people. |
| 1:30.3 | As an ear and throat doctor, I'm very used to and very comfortable seeing patients with respiratory tract infections. |
| 1:37.3 | So people started coming to see me and I basically just did what I thought I needed to do. |
| 1:42.3 | So I've become the emergency room. I'm giving |
| 1:46.0 | high-dose IV steroids. I'm giving, you know, 25 grams of IV vitamin C. But I am keeping people out of the |
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