The Medical System Is No Safer Than the School System
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the dangers of over-bureaucratic, over-the-top medical care in the United States, and why we need a new kind of care for our kids. We are looking for like-minded families to come together and support each other as the bureaucratic infrastructure of our society is beginning to break down.
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Any normal parent would pull that up, look at it, and be like, 4.4 million.
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We weren't really paying attention or taking ownership of it ourselves.
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Instead, we were like, oh, if no one's telling me anything's wrong, I guess nothing's wrong,
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I don't know why we didn't assume that this was also happening with the medical system,
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but the focus of this system is not on patient outcomes.
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It is on bureaucratic compliance and ass covering and justification of bureaucratic structures.
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What I want to do here is take this opportunity for not just for our family,
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but for the network of families that makes up our community.
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This is something you can join if you're like, my family would benefit from this.
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But what we also need to make this realistically implementable for us
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is like-minded medical professionals who are interested in-
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A new type of telehealth, basically, where they're much more like a thesis advisor.
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By that, what I mean is the patient can't just decide on anything themselves.
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They need to then take all of their research to the doctors, say, here's this study,
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And I think as a result, given the symptoms or given this, I should be prescribed X,
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which again creates reasons for value-aligned families to group together and support each other
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as the bureaucratic infrastructure of our society is beginning to break down.
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It's not just the infrastructure that's falling apart.
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Civilization is essentially falling apart around us.
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I will start with mentioning an ask for anyone who fits this criteria and doesn't make it to the end of the episode.
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But we are looking for values-aligned individuals with MDs, so value-aligned doctors.
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And we're likely going to create a list for different states for our listeners to directly contact them.
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But obviously, we would really love one either outside Pennsylvania, but preferably within Pennsylvania due to some prescribing laws.
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But the reason we need to make this ask is that we have completely lost faith in the, I guess I'd call it bureaucratic medical institutions in the United States and largely in the world.
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Because I lost faith in the NHS when I was living in the UK.
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And I was like, at least in the US because it was profit-driven, et cetera.
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And now I have realized that I should have been putting as much stock in these institutions having my children's best interest at heart as I had put in the school system having my children's best interest at heart.
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And that these institutions, in their own way, have become as corrupted and as useless as the public school system and are becoming increasingly more so as time goes on, to the extent where if your kids are going to just an average doctor down the road, I would say that I would not trust that they are safe.
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So do you want to go into the events that led us here, Simone?
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It all started with a bat that we found crawling around in our yard.
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Octavian ran up to Malcolm and said that our dog, the professor, was barking at something scary.
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And Malcolm, being the ever-attentive dad, did not dismiss this and went outside to check on the kids and saw our dog barking at what seemed like the ground.
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But it turned out that when he looked closer, there was a bat crawling along it.
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And so we put the bat in a giant goldfish box and put a sign on it that said live, potentially rabid bat, called the government, found the government testing location.
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Malcolm drove forever to drop off this live bat, which a government bureaucrat was pretty dismissive about.
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I know they were like, oh, okay, I'll put it with the mail.
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And I was like, don't put that with the rest of the mail.
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And I told them when I dropped them off, this is a live, potentially rabid bat.
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And then she said it was the rest of the packages.
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And then she seemed to have this moment of recognition where she goes, oh, and then she picks it up and takes it to the back room.
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And we thought nothing of it when we dropped it off because what are the odds?
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Actually, we know the odds that this was going to be a rabid bat.
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The odds were about 1% or even less than that, that this would be a rabid bat.
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So we thought, okay, great, better safe than sorry.
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So, by the way, if you ever are exposed to rabid animal, it is very important that you, especially if you've been bitten or you've been in a scenario in which potentially spit or brain matter from the bat has gotten into your mouth or an open wound, within 24 hours, you have to get a rabies vaccine.
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Or the odds of you contracting rabies and then dying from it, because if you actually contract rabies, it is 100% fatal.
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So, we're a little nervous about the 24-hour period passing before knowing that this bat was tested.
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Government's taken a while, but we're like, yeah, government bureaucracies.
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And then finally, at the end of the day on Friday, we received this message that the bat was rabid.
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And our eldest son, who's old enough to report on these things, insisted that nobody touch the bat except for the professor.
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It was the middle son who can talk competently.
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I do not think that there was, like, the odds of exposure are incredibly low.
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So, we're like, okay, it's good that there was no exposure.
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Because it was right next to their playground, right?
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Like, literally, if one of them had gone down their slide of their little play fort, they would have butt first right on top of the bat.
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But we're like, okay, so we know there's rabid animals in our yard now.
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We should get, because there's the big rabies shot that you can get, which is the post-exposure shot.
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And that seemed like over the information we have.
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But the course of action here would be, okay, don't get the post-exposure vaccine, but get the prophylactic vaccine.
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So, the prophylactic rabies vaccine is for if you are going to be encountering animals with rabies or if there's, like, rabies in your area.
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It provides some boost, but it's not as severe as the post-exposure vaccine.
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Go through our ordeal attempting to get the prophylactic rabies vaccine.
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They're the rabies story, and then there's another story that happened immediately afterwards that was even more obscene.
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So, we call our kids pediatric practice, which is one of those, it's many doctors, many nurses.
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We do that because we think that, ideally, we thought they functioned better, had better resources.
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And they tell us, oh, okay, we'll send this message on to a doctor, because we could only call them on Saturday.
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The office was closed when we first learned of this, and that we wouldn't be able to get an answer from them until Monday.
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And then they would look into it on Monday, which is bad, because when you're trying to get vaccines for your kids who've been potentially exposed and also just prophylactically protect them, you want to do it as soon as possible.
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Then, on Monday, we called them multiple times, saying, hey, our kids were exposed.
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If you have to get them in, obviously, you don't have them in stock.
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Long story short, to not make the story boring to our audience, we eventually learn that legally, whoever owns them won't let them prescribe rabies vaccines.
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Yeah, under no circumstances are they to give people rabies vaccines.
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And what they just told us repeatedly, every single time, was go to an emergency room.
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And the emergency room says, oh, we don't give prophylactic rabies vaccines.
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So, already, they're basically telling us we have to lie to them if we go, if we want to get vaccines.
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The last time we did this, because we were actually exposed to a bat that was in our house while we were asleep, so we don't know if we were bitten or spit on or something.
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And then the question is, if it had been a real bat exposure and some family was trying to do the right thing, talk to their doctors first, they would have dismissed them for a week before giving them the answer that they had just decided legally they don't want to give out these vaccines.
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That is enough time that somebody would be past the period of which a post-exposure vaccine would help them, and they would die.
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We called every possible channel we thought we could call.
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So then, less than a week later, our little girl goes in for her 18 months, and she gets a lead test.
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And I tell her, if there is any lead in her system, and I was very direct about this.
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We actually have evidence that I was direct about this that we'll get to in an instant.
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But give me a call if there is any lead in her system at all.
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We don't get a call, of course, because they don't care.
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They genuinely do not care about the well-being of our kids.
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But Simone was able to proactively look up what the results of the test were.
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Now, the number at which we would get a call would be 5.
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However, 4.5 is more than twice the national average.
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This is when you're talking about long-term IQ effects.
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And we have developed our own plan to work this out.
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But it just shows that they're not legally required to.
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Because they are not looking out for your kid's long-term best interest.
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And then I told someone, I was like, there must be something new in the house.
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Because they would have told us with our other kids.
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Because we went and we found the old medical records.
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He wants us to tell him if any comes up in the test.
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Like literally it said in clinical notes from previous appointments.
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So now we're at this state where it's four years.
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This, now we've got to be like, oh, we won't give your kids the type of stuff associated with getting lead out of their system, etc.
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We can no longer trust the medical system anymore.
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And also because you would probably ask if you are looking at the results of your appointments.
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So the way they sent the results didn't send markers.
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And it also included a little tooltip icon in the online system that they have.
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Clicked through to it and it basically said a disclaimer.
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But it didn't actually provide information on ranges, what the national averages are.
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You put that into, you then searched for national averages.
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But any normal parent would pull that up, look at it and be like 4.4 million.
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And now we are at this point where I'm like, okay.
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And we had already been moving to this system this year was in our house, which is to move
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to Ezra scans, which we've talked about before.
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And they've got centers in major cities across the US and they are incredibly detailed in
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They don't own the machines, but they basically are able to book a slot for you with various
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That's why they're able to do this in many locations.
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And then their team goes inch by inch through your body and analyzes them, providing preventative
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healthcare, especially when it comes to cancer.
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We also emailed Emigal, who's the founder of Ezra and cause he's one of those quantified
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And we're like, okay, what blood tests do you order?
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We know all these other things, but we want to know what you order and how you keep track
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of it because he's that kind of person who's just going to know.
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And so he gave us, and we can put this actually in the comments or the description of this video,
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this blog post that he shared on all the blood tests that he orders.
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And also he has a spreadsheet template, which we now have copied and we'll be using where
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you can keep track of your results over time so that you are personally tracking and charting
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your health because of HIPAA laws in the United States, at least it's really difficult for
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you even to gain access to your medical test results and for them to be portable anywhere.
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So you don't have one comprehensive place to look at all of your medical information.
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So our plan was personally for us, for you and me, Malcolm, that we're going to do an Ezra scan
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every other year because they're crazy expensive, but we should probably do it because
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cancer and to do comprehensive blood panels that we ourselves using AI analyze because
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We just have to get a doctor to order it and try to get as much of our insurance to cover
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it as possible, which is not going to be a lot because we have a high deductible plan
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That's where we were, but we didn't do it with our kids because we're like, well, our pediatric
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No one's going to care about the best interest of kids.
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Now I have learned they literally care nothing about your kids.
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And this is the, this is ridiculous because it's the same thing that we knew about the
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It's the same thing we knew about the governmental system.
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I don't know why we didn't assume that this was also happening with the medical system,
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but the focus of this system is not on patient outcomes.
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It is on bureaucratic compliance and ass covering and justification of bureaucratic structures,
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which is what you talk about in the Privacy's Guide to Governance all the time.
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But yeah, patient outcomes, not at all the focus.
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I love the way you worded it, which is the medical system is not built around outcomes.
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And that is what's driving decisions within the industry right now.
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You look at something like naltrexone, which is basically banned in the United States and is
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There's a cure for alcoholism, but doctors don't prescribe it because liability.
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And really the only liability is that naltrexone, by the way, is just, it's a little hard on your
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And obviously if someone's an alcoholic, their liver has already gone through.
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Well, it's actually partially AA has really lobbied to prevent it from becoming common.
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And we could do a whole separate video on that.
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Other solutions to alcoholism, because then people become a quote unquote, a dry drunk,
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which means they didn't solve the real issues that led to alcoholism, which for them is
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a lack of their religion, which means it's a religion, right?
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If there's a medical solution to alcoholism, which the original founder of AA said he was
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founding this as a stopgap until a medical solution became available.
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And now they're the solution that works in 83% of people who try it.
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The Sinclair method, it allows you to, if you want to keep drinking when you want to,
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And Simone, you see me night and day before this, I used to drink at least 45 beers a
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day or more for years of my life, decades of my life.
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And people are like, come on, you couldn't possibly, I love it when people are like, you
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And I'm like, you don't know my family history.
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You graduated with good grades from a Stanford MBA, constantly hammered.
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I think the fact was you drank beer like a man 200 years ago drank beer, which is to
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say that you drank beer flavored water, AKA Coors Light.
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And you drank it constantly as though it were water, just like people used to, just like
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And so you never really were drunk because also your tolerance was insanely high.
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And I never, the only time I saw you drunk was when my mom did that whole wedding thing
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Oh, she tricked me into a pagan wedding ceremony.
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And then you just switched to the hard stuff and you're like, I'm going to just, you drank
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That's no, there are different types of drinking.
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There's, there's European drinking, there's ancestor drinking, which is what you did.
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And then there's frontier medicine where you're like, I need to knock myself out frontier
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Get through a pagan ceremony without offending your parents.
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But anyway, anyways, uh, I, I, the reason I bring up the naltrexin thing is I have learned
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And that almost certainly saved me from dying was outside of the medical profession and
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something that's not even talked about within the medical profession.
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And it took you a long time to find that because there were many times where you tried a
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lot of other types of interventions and they just never really worked.
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And then recently with that ongoing back pain and you couldn't identify what it was.
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And the doctor should have known that epidurals can sometimes create these and you found it
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After my C-section, I was for a month for three solid weeks in crippling back pain, like just
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turning over in bed caused so much pain that I would involuntarily yell, let alone moving,
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taking care of an infant, being with our family.
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And at first I thought it was just hormonal changes.
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And then I discovered it was almost certainly a complication from the spinal epidural that
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I got, which is just, it's not like anyone did their job poorly, but I'd emailed the practice
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I'm like, wow, like I can't, I can't move without being in extreme pain.
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And they told me that was the way that they wanted to be communicated with.
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So the point being is what are we doing to fix this for our kids, for us, but I don't
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want to go into all of the maybe more experimental medical stuff that we may be doing as a family
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because I don't want people like coming after us or anything like that.
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But what I'm going to be putting together is a document that goes over all of the most
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cutting edge research out there for different chemicals, different nootropics, how they might
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affect kids developmentally, things that we can do about the lead and things that start
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neural development again after I've already found some great options here.
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And it's still a low amount of lead, but it's way more than we would want.
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Like it's going to have an effect if we don't address it.
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And now we recently had a guy come test every part of the house for lead, everything, including
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So we're going to have a full understanding of where this is coming from.
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It turned out we had all our kids tested in the original multiple results were false positives
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and that their actual lead levels were much lower in line with the average American lead
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However, this is how we sort of view within our theological system.
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The agents of providence or God or the future police or whatever word you want to use within
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our system works is that they find a way to notify us in a way that we just can't ignore
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that we need to change some aspect of our behavior.
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And if I don't change my behavior, if I don't go through with developing this new system and
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all of the other people it may end up impacting, the events still end up happening in this timeline.
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So we are now moving to a system of, Simone said, doing the scans, proactively looking
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at the cutting edge research that's not being implemented into practice yet, developing basically
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I'm already beginning to put this together that will probably bake into some bars for
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our kids or something like that, or put it in afterwards because it's overheated.
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It can destroy the active ingredients in a lot of compounds.
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But we'll come up with some delivery mechanism for our kids.
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I will make a lot of the information on our research public so other people can use these
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same things in addition to the Collins Institute, which right now, if you're interested, I need
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people who can go through it and tell me their feedback because we're back close to launch
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Um, so let me know anyone who's interested in that.
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The Collins Institute is our alternative to the public education system that we have been
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And also we will be making this sort of medical stuff available.
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But what we also need to make this realistically implementable for us is like-minded medical
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professionals who are interested in providing a new type of telehealth, basically.
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where the, a lot more of the, what the patient is doing is being researched by the patient
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and then basically being brought and argued to the doctor.
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Basically the doctor in this system takes on a different role than a doctor historically.
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By that, what I mean is the patient can't just decide on anything themselves.
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They need to then take all of their research to the doctors, say, here's this study, here's
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And I think as a result, given the symptoms or given this, I should be prescribed X instead
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So to be clear, this isn't just experimental stuff.
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I, we also, I created a spreadsheet where we are keeping track of basic blood work results,
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Last time we had an eye exam, like last time we've done all the important things, because
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we realized that also we weren't, because we assumed that the medical system would let
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us know if something seemed off, we weren't really paying attention or taking ownership
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Instead, we were like, Oh, if no one's telling me anything's wrong, I guess nothing's wrong,
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And it just feels really good now to just plan on not trusting anyone and monitoring our own
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stuff and making sure here are the vaccines we all are going to need here.
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Here's what we're monitoring for each person that seems a little bit out of range, or they
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Theoretically, I could also, once I've refined this massive spreadsheet format where there's like
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sheets for everyone in the family and like a master, like check-in sheet and a master
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sheet of here's what resource to use for what, because there are many affordable virtual
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There are many affordable alternate options that are not necessarily covered by healthcare
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And so I, what I want to do here is take this opportunity for not just for our family,
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but for the network of families that makes up our community.
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If you're like, my family would benefit from this, let us know.
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And we are going to try to put together a network that connects like-minded physicians
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with families in our communities that want to take a lot more personal ownership over
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their own family's health and be much more aggressive nutritionally and everything like
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And here, what I mean is we are not the type of everything needs to be perfect for our
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Simone pumped for a bit with this kid, but we're probably not going to be doing that again
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We are not about optimizing everything when there are costs to that optimization, i.e.
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But we are about optimizing for everything when it is a trivial cost to us or our kids or
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And there were just so many low hanging fruits out there that I was finding as I was digging
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So I should say that we're not trying to create a network for like over-involved hypochondriacs.
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But it's a network of people who would be using medicine and medication as if the medical
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industry hadn't frozen 10 years ago in terms of its advancement, which is what happened.
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When I look at, I've been looking at more like trans-affirming care stuff and stuff like
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And it's like if the medical industry was saying people should have been raising alarm
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One reason I really like putting this together for our community and making these connections
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One is not only does it help make our community safer and help get us access to more sovereignty,
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Two, if we are acting as intermediaries within this, there's not going to be some master list
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of physicians that public that people can target.
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It allows us to make connections directly, which is also much better.
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And three, it allows for an additional source of income for some people within our community.
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But I guess even four, potentially, is it provides the opportunity for something that could turn
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into something more formalized as things go down the road, which again creates reasons
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for value-aligned families to group together and support each other as the bureaucratic infrastructure
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It's not just the infrastructure that's falling apart.
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Civilization is essentially falling apart around us.
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And only through creating bubbles where we continue to push science forwards, where we
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continue to push medicine forwards, can we have any faction of humanity hope to continue
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Part of me wonders how other communities that have chosen to essentially go off the grid are
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For example, we know lots of people and journalists have covered how the Amish handle
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medical insurance, you know, that they pool resources, they'll pay towards something, and
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then the community covers when there's some kind of treatment that's prohibitively expensive,
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What I don't know is how they manage their ongoing health, how they decide to get vaccines,
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how they monitor or don't their various levels of hormones and their growth and their weight
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and their height and should they be intervening or what do you do when a kid has a rash.
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I'd be interested in learning that maybe someday we can trot off to Lancaster, Lancaster, however
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I like the idea of promoting any concierge doctor who follows this podcast, who's up for
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The problem is that we're not saying that the people within the medical establishment
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Every doctor that I personally worked with, my pregnancy and delivery and C-section, absolutely
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fantastic, including like the doctor who did my spinal.
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The office that didn't respond to my concerns and requests about crippling pain, they're working
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If they don't respond, then you go in for a visit and they make more money.
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The incentive system that's put into place with a lot of these drives behavior patterns.
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There is no reason to fix a problem like that, like people not responding to patient requests
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from the perspective of the bosses or the management when the outcome of that is more money.
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Like with a lot of this, I think that what people get wrong is they think about these
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big conspiracies, like cancer medications are being withheld or discoveries because
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That's actually a lot harder to do because you have competing medical institutions and
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one of them had it, they would use it to undercut their competitors.
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But when you're talking about something like a hospital, no, there isn't really the same
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competitive pressure for them to get back to you versus getting back to other people,
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because there's typically only one or two other hospitals in an area that they're competing
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The other crazy thing was when you started calling hospitals to try to find out how much
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And the answer was basically, we can't tell you.
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What other thing in our society works that way on a random hidden expense?
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And so it's better for us going forwards to just proactively manage this stuff ourselves
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And we know that we have an international audience with this podcast and that there are
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different nations with very different healthcare systems.
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But when you have a nationalized healthcare system, you're often dealing with just as bad
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incentives or possibly even worse, like you pointed out with the NHS.
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Then there, of course, there are some countries that are great, like South Korea, where you
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Oh, I got to talk about a medical experience in South Korea.
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So I've lived in a lot of countries in the UK, the NHS, anyone, my experience with the
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NHS, even as bad as all this expensive stuff up is in the US that has me scared for my kids
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I still pray to God every day I live here and not under the NHS.
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The NHS, basically, if you get like a flu or something like that, and then you try to
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book an appointment, the appointment is always three weeks out.
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So you're always better by the time you get to the appointment.
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If you have something serious, like I remember once I had something serious and urgent and
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I called and they were like, don't get all emotional with me.
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And they hung up when I was at university and somebody was like dying on the floor in
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I just don't need to deal with this at 3am in the morning.
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But there's no consequences to this within the NHS.
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In Korea, though, they have this system where it's really inexpensive.
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Like in the US, everything's way too expensive because of the way our insurance system works.
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And if you just banned the whole US insurance system and made everything out of pocket, it
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But that's the way it works in a lot of the developing world.
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And so we often get medical stuff done in the developing world when we're in Peru or
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But in Korea, it's like in the developing world, but it's also like totally industrialized.
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So like when you were doing like a test, you would sit down in one booth and somebody would
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ask you like a series of questions and then you'd get moved to a variable set of other
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booths where they would do, there was like the blood draw line.
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It was just like, like you were walking in line and it was a fairly fast line and you'd
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get the blood drawn and they'd move you through.
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Like everything was just like lines and institutionalized and it was insane.
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And then when you would get mildly sick and you'd go to an appointment, they'd give you
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like these breathers and stuff that had like antithetics in them that were meant to make
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you feel better immediately as well as prompt, inexpensive service.
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And then there's childbirth in Korea where afterwards women get the blood.
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They go to these resorts, essentially like a spa retreat with your baby where they feed
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you healthy food and you get massages and yeah, you basically get to chill and then take
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Anyway, I love you today Simone and I really hope that we're able to put this together and
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that we get enough physicians and we're very fortunate that this happened post COVID because
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post COVID like in PA, the regulations around people prescribing stuff out of state are significantly
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And if you win this race, this can be something that you work on to make it much easier for a
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system like this to operate without any sort of legal concern.
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Yeah, and of course, none of this should be taken as medical advice.
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Just disclaimer, because just like everyone else, we just have to cover our ass and worry
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But yeah, I just if any if anyone has made it to the end, please want one if you could
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subscribe and like this video because it will help the video.
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But also like actually think about your personal health.
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Think about anyone in your family and their personal health and maybe consider making a spreadsheet
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where you just start to internally take ownership of it and track it, because if you think that
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a doctor is keeping track of that and making sure that you're okay, and then informing you
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stuff that might be going wrong, you're probably wrong.