＂Ten Year-Olds Don't Get Heart Attacks＂ - Or Do They？
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and fellow nurse advocate, Dr. Kelly, to talk about her experience as a pediatric nurse and how she fights for the rights of her patients who are being mistreated in the emergency room.
Transcript
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But I can tell you that two days ago, I flew out my first 10-year-old with a heart attack,
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and I had to fight the doctor in the ER because he's like, 10-year-olds don't have heart attacks.
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And I argued back and forth for 30 minutes to force his hand to get an EKG to find out that he
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had almost a complete STEMI, which is ST-elevated myocardial infarction, for which you could see
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it lit up on the 12-lead EKG. And he's like, well, that's not possible. And I'm like, well,
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he was just vaccinated yesterday. It is very much possible. At any given time, people are getting
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a hold of me and the nurse advocates at American Frontline Nurses to help advocate, because as
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you've seen, there is victim shaming that, oh, it's anxiety. Oh, it's this. But in actuality,
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if they put down that it was a vaccine injury, the physician, the corporation, the hospital,
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the clinic, they actually won't get reimbursed. So it gets labeled as anxiety or neuropathy or
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Guillain-Barre syndrome, when in actuality, it's very realistically a vaccine injury. Whereas I tell
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people you are better off in South America in a field hospital than you are in level one trauma
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designer hospitals in the United States. As nurses, we are getting reports across the country from our
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American Frontline Nurses about patients not getting food, patients not getting water. How come a patient
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hasn't been fed in nine days? Why do I need to get a court order to force a hospital to feed a person
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who isn't intubated and who's literally telling you they would like food? Oh, well, you can't take
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your BiPAP mask off. Well, that's what us nurses are for. We're going to help you take that off. We're
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going to help you eat, but we're not allowed to. If you know if they're on a ventilator, they're not
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getting basic standards of care. I've had patients that haven't been bathed, haven't been fed,
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haven't been given water, haven't been turned. And if you ask me, this isn't a hospital. This is a
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concentration camp. Absolutely it is. Nowhere in the United States do we isolate people for hundreds
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of hours at a time with no human contact. It's not even allowed in the prisons. You are not allowed
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to isolate a prisoner for beyond a certain extensive amount of time because it is horrible for their