A short conversational transcript in which speakers (one unnamed, plus Nick Perry) argue that patients and families must actively advocate for themselves in medical settings—rejecting trainee-only care—and speculate that medical negligence may have contributed substantially to deaths during the global pandemic.
Don't ever leave your family member to side. You must advocate for them the entire time you're surrounded by idiots. When I had my own C section, I don't care what kind of a it made me. I said, I want the. I want the anesthesiologists doing my. Because they walked in, oh, wait, we have a resident doing it. Is that okay? No, it's not okay. I have one spine, and I've seen some. I'm not saying this to be cute. I've seen a pregnant woman. The way she jumped up. Oops. No, there's no oops here. That's lifelong damage. And because this is a teaching hospital, I have to be okay with you practicing on me? Practice on a fucking cadaver. I have one spine and I tell people all the time, you must advocate for yourself.
This actually got me thinking about that China sickness that shut the whole world down a few years back. What if most of those deaths were caused by negligent doctors who had patients who couldn't advocate for themselves due to their poor state? I mean, it's not like they had family who could advocate for them either. I don't think I would be surprised if more than half of those deaths could have been prevented.
