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Back to the recovery. and we went in for delivery around 2:00 in the afternoon. and shes there resting, relaxing. and thats when things turn a took for the worse. she was resting. i looked down and i began to see blood coming from the catheter at her bedside. i bring it to the attention of the doctors and nurses. they came in, examined her physically, ordered blood work. they ordered a ct scan that was supposed to be performed stat. i thought that meant immediately. i was concerned. im thinking ...

I am a physician am going to be respected when i deem something to be a medical emergency? do i get to make that decision? or does a judge thats sitting in a court and has never stepped foot into a medical school or next to a patients bedside get to make that decision? >> doctor, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, don. and thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage continues.

Treated anyone any differently. but she was one of them, one of the team. >> when autumns husband medical researcher bob ferrante, arrived in the trauma room. he tried to give the team some of his wifes medical history. he explained that she had been on fertility hormones. >> she had headaches, fainting spells, and that she generally was expressing that she hadnt been feeling well. >> he told the er doctors that he thought his wife had suffered a stroke. though diagnostic test said otherwise. by...

Youre surrounded by security. but youre going to have to leave this hospital and to continue to live your life with this man out there. does that cross your mind at all? >> you know? yeah, you are fearful. >> and something else crossed her mind, as she sat by her husbands bedside. she realized whoever did this had easy access to her personal information. federal judges data, like home addresses and phone numbers, is not protected, like everyone else is its available online through a google searc...

The sort of is hard for everyone. i think that there are different mandates for people who are sort of living their lives as lay people in terms of levels of understanding and compassion and most of us who actually have to take care of people at the bedside. i think its appropriate to be frustrated outside the hospital. i think when someone is sick and whenner in an icu bed, then we owe it to them to turn that frustration off. in terms of advice for what people can do to control what they can co...

Knew. i thought, oh, no, no no. >> like your whole life is disintegrating right unr your hand. >> it did. >> then the paramedics brought ricky to a waiting helicopter. rick senior rode to the hospital with his son. >> he was comprehending what we were talking about a little bit, but he was hurting pretty hard. i tried to tell him, well get okay. well get the doctors to try to fix this. >> and they did try. as the doctors worked on ricky, his family gathered. amy was there, too, of course. but wh...

Actions that they have taken or not taken before, that theres a real tension between knowing that everyone deserves care and compassion and being there at the bedside and then outside the hospital feeling frustration, of course, that people who have chosen not to get vaccinated are continuing to drive these the -- these surges and are facing disease that would have been avoidable. that being said, i think all of us once we are standing there at that bedside and seeing somebody who is in need tha...

>> yes, sir. thanks for having us on, its always great to see you and thank you to your audience for letting us be on, thats right. we were founded in 2008 with the mission to provide flights for families of leptons for wounded, ill and injured would service members recovering at walter reed and have expanded all over the world and provided more than 14000 airplane tickets. jon: only about 1% of our nations families have members in the service so a lot of people dont know, if you are wounded in ...

Originally we set out to make sure world war ii and korean war veterans have someone by the bedside as they were passing away, but it was a great way, a final salute to the greatest generation whoever lived and we found many young service members and leptons were reaching out because many of our young service members were battling cancer so as an example we have a servicemember in brooke army medical center right now and we flew his sister for christmas to his bedside from guam and while shes th...

What its like to be in a hospital where you are begging health care workers who have just tested positive in the last day for the virus who are not that severely ill to continue working because if they didnt there would be no one by the bedside for eight hours. we are looking at the situation, we are getting life-saving drugs to our communities. you know how many pharmacies are closing around the country because they dont have the drugs because the warehouses and the drivers cant get them there ...