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/PRNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) presented its 2022 William W. Tipton Jr., MD, Leadership Award to Andrew W. Gurman, MD,...

And the most important thing was the doctors started to talk to me as if i were a centeon human being. they were candid, they told me the truth, and i became part of a team making the basic life-and-death decisions about my parents lives. and that made this very, very difficult process a lot better. >> what did that mean to your parents? >> it meant that they -- that their lives werent unnecessarily prolonged. i mean, you know, mom always said, i dont want to be a vegetable. and yet i found myse...

Other. >> right, and the fact of the matter is they set up two separatists at this point. >> the system is designed to retain power by splitting us. we take our power back by unifying around issues by recognizing that were the hero of our own story and t o our co. >> exactly. >> and the book is "of, by, for, the new politics of money, debt and democracy." the author, joe costello, three decades working on these very issues, and as you can tell, ill go out with joe any time and help him sell his ...

And once, you know, at a certain point, i was on one of my road trips. im on another one of my road trips now, by the way. i get a phone call from the internist who says, you know, your mom is in the hospital. she has pneumonia, she is not eating, and if we dont put in a feeding tube, youre going to lose her. and i couldnt get a really straight answer from him about what that meant, how much time i had. i knew she didnt want, specifically did not want a feeding tube, but i was in iowa, my brothe...

Quote, saying, we do not need a revolution in america, we need a reformation. will you explain that comment? >> sure. this is a 200-year-old what the founders of this country call an experiment in self-government, and its kind of gone off the tracks at this point. so what we dont need is a revolution where they started this country 200 years ago by overthrowing monarchys. >> and through outbursts and all this. >> right, and it was successful all over the world. theres not very many monarchys, an...

Disenfranchised from it. >> i would say thats the biggest reason, is people -- obviously, my narrative at this point and my point is fairly well understood and folks come up and they say, what do we do, what do we do, and the number one thing is to feel that there isnt something for them to do, and as a result they disengage. you disagree with that. you believe there is something for everybody to do, and you talk about us as the heroes of our own stories, effectively. what would you have us do? ...

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