escape fire video transcript

They are often poor patients, but not always. We want more procedures. And so, I think it points to the violence in our society. When medicine became a business, we lost our moral compass. They may be a member of a health plan for a year and maybe no longer. We have to teach young physicians that prevention comes first. ORNISH: Dr. Peter Carroll and I collaborated with Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine and she had done a study showing that stress creates shorter telomere, said as your telomeres get shorter, your life gets shorter. He is the president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. How are you? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. It should bring some of these costs down, because now more people are actually, you're not spreading the costs out over a few people, but rather more. NIEMTZOW: Normally you would? Okay. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Did you have, you know, a lot of money at stake here? Select "Show Transcript" from the menu. If we just change reimbursement, it's a game changer, we change medical practice and we change medical education. MARTIN: And they don't reimburse for nutritional counseling or anything like that. I smoked six cigars a day, 10 cups of coffee, a lot of wine. Korengal, the (INAUDIBLE), it's the most intense battleground that you can ever be in. MARTIN: How are you today? It's wonderful. Ten allotted. ROSS: OK, what was it, Mr. Linton, that finally made you say, okay, that's it. You almost forget that what you're doing is providing healthcare. I came to Walter Reed. GUPTA: So, tell me how that would work? This is a chest tube. The problem with Yvonne's case, is she had all of those stents before she had the risk factors controlled. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How's your pain, sir? And you know, our grandparents did not eat stuff like this. If somebody has hypertension, we give anti-hypertension drugs. He's taken 10 tablets. MARTIN: How much were you drinking before? It's And we will say, it is important you request the appointment not only through a telephone call, but if you have an e- mail address, to try to do that. I'm not changed, but I'm changing. I was so dependent on my pain medication. It's hard to say good-bye to the patients. SHANNON BROWNLEE, MEDICAL JOURNALIST: We're in the grip of a very big industry, and it doesn't want to stop making money. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: In the last few years, a profound change has begun in American medicine. Where I'm at right now, patients are in desperate need of care. I need to speak with the crisis worker. I mean, couple weeks, I felt like I was okay. GUPTA: I want to point out something. This -- medications I was on. To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If it's a radiologist, they get paid for each CT scan they deliver. It is so addictive. This place actually gave me the tools to put in my tool bag so I can go back and still continue my process of healing, recovery. They'll say, it took years to develop something like this, the research and development costs are significant. Escape fire: the fight to rescue American healthcare (DVD) Contributors: Heineman, Matthew, director, Froemke, Susan, director, Berwick, Donald M. 1946- commentator. I was taking 64 pills a day of combinations of Roxaset and Oxycotin. DR. LESLIE CHO, CARDIOLOGIST, CLEVELAND CLINIC: You know how people say it takes a village to raise a child? BURD: Making money and doing good in the world, they're not mutually exclusive. And if they have a relationship with you, feeling truncated. 27 cardiac catheterization and well over seven stents. He overdosed. NIEMTZOW: So you haven't taken anything? The power lies with corporations and corporate interests and the lobbyists that they buy. People eat what's cheap and what's available. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Haven't gotten near my toes in months unless I do this. How to Get YouTube Transcripts on Desktop On a desktop or laptop, head on over to YouTube.com in a web browser such as Google Chrome and open a video to watch. That's how embedded people get in the status quo. Impressive for it to react that quickly. So, if you have a patient comes in, you get paid a certain amount because you do a stent. That is chest pain that is actually currently damaging the heart in patients. When you go over into a war zone where you see your buddies die or you get injured, that's going to tax anybody. But, that's not the whole story. OK? GEN. RICHARD THOMAS, ASSISTANT SURGEON-GENERAL, U.S. ARMY: As we've pushed medical innovation and capability to the leading edge of the battlefield where we can save their life, and we've got some guys who have had some horrific injuries and they're getting narcotics for a longer period of time, they certainly are at risk to develop dependency, and that's what we're trying to avoid. But I think, to be honest, when you add more people to the system; that raises costs. He is also a president of the society for interventional and geography in intervention. They did not tell physicians. And by the way, they are number in the world and life expectancy. MARTIN: OK, OK. You lost five pounds. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) I'm tired of it. MARTIN: At a community healthcare center like where I work, you see chronic illness, people that aren't able to afford their medications, lots of psychiatric illnesses. NISSEN: You know, DVT and pulmonary emboli. So diabetics, (INAUDIBLE) costs. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The healthcare reform bill that was enacted achieved two of the insurance industry's major objectives. But, in fact, the more I looked, the more I found that there's all this stuff in medicine that we don't think about that is actually harmful. I'm not sure what is what. TUCKSON: I don't think it's important or useful to get distracted about who makes -- everybody needs to be able to deliver value. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Take them away from him. They are patients with heart failure, they are morbidly obese patients. Again , when I'm talking about disincentives. GUPTA: But, why are these causing hospitals so expensive? And that is where the affordable care act can help which is bringing more competition to the bidding and pricing of these items. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He really did. Thanks all of you for joining us. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So uncomfortable and I need to pee again. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BROWNLEE: The history of how the American healthcare system grew is not one of order, it's one of sort of happen hazard chaos. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Came off the mountain with only eight? That's my routine. This is all coming out of our pockets. Let me get right to it, Erin. And, you know, you kind of get busy. Wag Dodge had an idea. About three weeks ago, because of the state budget crisis, we got told with very little notice that Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement was going to be cut by about 25 percent. MARTIN: When was your last mammogram and pap smear? You're doing this radical intervention, you know, I say radical? If you can delay treatment, then that man is not at risk for side effects during that period of time. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A platoon of 23. Also, Doctor Reed Tuckson, he is the chief medical officer for the united health group. That is how many medications I was on. Thank you so much. GUPTA: So you're salaried. So, if there's a concern someone has a tumor, they who use a needle like this. GUPTA: The children dying before the age of five exceeds any of the other 16 richest countries. Yvonne came to se me when she was sort of at her wit's end. I was 35 at the time and was scheduled for open-heart surgery. DR. ANDREW WEIL, PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: We only give lip service to prevention and we have to ask why as a society are we not working to prevent disease and promote health. CARNES: Ready? He tried to get the other smoke jumpers to join him, and nobody did. If they are surgeons, they get paid for each procedure. It's nice to know that I've got a long time to spend with my family and I'm going to get to see my son grow older and go to college and all that fun stuff. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think we have about 25 patients for today for Dr. Martin. And the problem is, some of those procedures will lead to bad outcomes. BROWNLEE: The doctor that has the greatest impact on your health is primary care doctors. Can adding Avandia help you? Hello, how are you? It's your money. It turns out lots and lots of men who had a cancer that didn't need to be treated, but they got treated anyway and it was causing a lot of harm. And if you look at even devices like -- this is a needle that's used for biopsy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes. It would be a very different system that probably would be less high-tech and more high touch. This suture costs about $200. The kinds of interventions that we have come to favor in this country are inherently costly because they are dependent on expensive technology, and that includes pharmaceutical drugs. It doesn't reward them for doing a better job. This point I'm in. The first description that the play makes about the fire escapes is "The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a . It expands the artery to hold it open and allow the blood to flow. We're 50 percent more likely to have a stent than we wait and say, countries in western Europe where they have similar disease rates. Why do so many children die so young here? The balloon is inflated to widen the blocked areas. LT. COL. BETTY GARNER, RESEARCHER, U.S. ARMY: Welcome to Germany. They can pretty much get away with increasing the rates as much as they want to. Our approach here is completely holistic. It's addictive. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: A new study finds a growing number of combat veterans are battling mental illness, but many are finding it difficult to get the help they need. It was important to keep expressing the hospital's position. Upload your own WebVTT captions and transcript file by selecting Video settings in the upper right of the web player. And when we work at that level, we find people are much more likely to make these sustainable changes and the patient learns how to empower themselves and to transform their lives. Alvin and the Chipmunks/Transcript. You have all these stents, and these stents, once they go in, they never come out and are part of you. MARTIN: Bye. I can't tell you how shocked we were when we saw her the first time, because here was a young woman whose diabetes was not well controlled. NISSEN: I do. Am I going to be paying more? Thank you all. Dodge survived, nearly unharmed. NIEMTZOW: Oh, you would? GUPTA: Sometimes the patients demand this stuff. ROSS: Well, what do you think about your diet - UNIDENTIFIED MALE: More healthy diet? ROSS: If you had to? They said, absolutely, it's been demonstrated that acupuncture is safe and effective, especially with post-operative and injury pain. Are you incentivized to do more stents? Our automatic transcription software will convert your video to text in just a few minutes (depending on the length of your video). Cost about $1200. NISSEN: Finally, the FDA put severe restrictions on the drug. It got fast tracked by the FDA. If you have that happen in Germany or England, they say, here's a list of instructions, if you have problems come back and see us. That may strike people as very high. And if you try and buck the system, someone says, what can we do to get your productivity up? If someone has compression of one of their lungs, they might need a chest tube like this, $1100. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just want to see what they've given him. Going to go look for it. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once I found out what was really wrong with me. So in 1994, I started a fellowship for people who had completed medical school to retrain physicians. That was how many medications I was on. It is important to keep in mind. Now you're going to get the scissors. Healthcare, it's in really bad trouble. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) DR. PAMELA ROSS, EMERGENCY MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: Hello, Dr. Ross. This is what he's got left. Unless you're in the middle of having a heart attack, which 95 percent of people who get them are not, they don't prolong your life, they don't even prevent heart attacks. We don't have a healthcare system in this country. My energy level is up. It's just so much more than money. NISSEN: What gives lobbyists power is the amount of money they have for campaign contributions. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, I need some help over here. But, one of the arguments seems to be, you add more people to the system, you get a lot more people insured. But I decided to give it a shot. GRUBER: Premiums will rise. And that's the problem. Again, you were part of the documentary. An Entrenched System. In the United States, it was around $8,000 annually. 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