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Medical Injustice Is The Unknown Problem That Is Keeping Us Sick And Anxious. · Health, Life & What’s Next

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  Welcome back to the podcast.
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  I have a topic I want to talk to you about that is close to my heart.
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  It is something that has been showing up in multiple occasions.
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  And when that happens to me, it is a sign that we need to have a discussion, and I have to create an episode to share my thoughts on it.
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  Let them know we here for them.
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  Today we are going to be talking about a medical injustice.
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  This is a term that I came up with.
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  I created to describe what every single patient has been reporting and facing.
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  While dealing with practitioners at some point on the healing journey to health.
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  Symptoms elimination and disease.
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  Our Istation.
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  If you search medical injustice, you will not find it.
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  However half care and justice will come up.
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  They are slightly similar, but also different in a lot of ways.
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  According to the dictionary, health care and justice is defined as the perception of unfairness of the treatment.
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  That one experiences from healthcare providers considered important in their care.
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  I repeat.
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  Health care.
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  And justice.
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  Is the fine as the perception of unfairness of the treatment, that one, the patient experiences from calf care providers considered important in the care.
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  In my personal opinion, medical injustice is different from half care injustice because it implies both.
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  Conventional and functional holistic, natural integrative medicine.
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  I have to say.
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  I have some medical injustice, less in the holistic space than I do in conventional.
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  It is rampant in conventional medicine.
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  That's where we see the most.
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  Of the injustice.
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  And patient has been reporting that to me in every single occasion.
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  So what is medical injustice?
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  It is the unfair treatment.
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  One receives in the medical world, leading to medical neglect.
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  Medical error, fear, stress, anxiety, depression, and this increases the risk for mental illness and lack of trust in our doctors.
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  To me, that's medical injustice.
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  That's my own definition.
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  So I have a scenario.
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  For example, I saw a patient last week will have seen at least five doctors in six months.
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  Originally she was seeking help from her primary care doctor for her stomach pain.
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  she's been expensing for some time now she scheduled the appointment.
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  And waited for at least 45 minutes.
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  She was seen by the nurse for 10 minutes.
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  And the doctor walked in, in a rush, barely made eye contact with her.
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  Read information from her chart, did her physical exam and all was normal prescribed basic blood work and medication.
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  However patient Google, like many of us would do we Google.
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  Symptoms before we go see our doctors and she discovered that something in her diet.
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  My cost, the pain and wanting to ask the doctor for some guidance and help to figure out what the triggers could be.
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  When she brought the subject to the doctor, she was told diet and food has nothing to do with it.
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  And to take the medication and wait for the lab result.
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  But as you all know, I attract the best patients, the upper assistant, when they know something is wrong, something is wrong.
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  So she was persistent with the doctor.
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  she was again, told to take the medication and just do the blood work and don't worry about it.
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  But she'd give, ask some questions.
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  They were not pleased with her, with the line of questioning and she was viewed as a problematic patient.
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  She felt like she was criticized.
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  She left the office, confused, hopeless, and frustrated.
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  Now it was a week after the initial visit.
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  She hasn't heard from anybody.
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  So she decided to call the office.
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  She called the office and say, Hey, I did blood work.
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  I was hoping somebody will call me, but no one did.
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  So what's going on.
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  She was told again, everything was normal.
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  And she said, Nope, everything cannot be normal.
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  Something is wrong because the medication is not working.
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  And I'm experiencing more symptoms than I had before, and I need help.
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  With persistence and determination in her complaining, they scheduled another office visit with the doctor.
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  At that time, the doctor just spent even less time with her.
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  Just handed her a referee for old paper to go see a GI doctor again.
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  After seeing the GI doctor, they didn't ask copy and some other blood work, she was told everything was normal.
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  She was good for it to Psychologist psychiatrist, dermatologist.
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  She decided that after seeing all these specialists and nobody was able to have her.
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  She decided to see a holistic doctor to only receive tons of supplements with no clear identification of what cause support or guidance.
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  That my friend is medical injustice.
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  This patient was bouncing back and forth.
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  Seeing multiple doctors.
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  Not her symptoms have increased too rash, anxiety, difficulty, sleeping, brain fog, fatigue.
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  Some even more stomach pain and she's more and more like the press.
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  Right.
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  She also lost weight.
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  Unintentionally.
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  Abnormal weight loss.
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  When I look at her images, I noticed that she had a cyst on her kidney and a small nodule.
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  And her liver and a lot of blood work went missing.
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  No one checked her anti-inflammatory markers, no one checked for gut panels.
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  None of these was done.
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  however, she was informed that there was also normal.
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  She was in awe.
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  When I show point out on the paper, I'm like, look, this is what is coming up and look at the impression.
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  From the radiologist.
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  This is what you have.
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  She was so angry at the doctors because she felt like something was normal after they were done with her.
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  The lack of care was so negligent that the the patient felt that it was her fault and she was crazy.
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  She said, what's wrong with me?
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  Why is this happening to me?
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  Nobody believes me.
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  So how many of you guys can relate?
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  Right.
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  So how many of you can relate to this scenario?
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  And I wish I started wasn't uncommon, but unfortunately it is that.
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  Examples of medical injustice that I've seen that I've heard, that have been reported to me are mistreatment.
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  Lack of poor communication.
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  When you feel dismissed by a doctor not being heard and having a voice, not have a say.
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  So in your own care, And the decision-making being fired by a doctor because you ask him too many questions.
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  Oh, you are being too persistent.
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  Being prescribed.
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  The one medications are experiencing side effects and the doctor told you to continue taking the medications.
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  Or the postcard with different medication in the same category.
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  Being a medication with no end results.
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  So many times I ask patients, I'm like, okay, so this medication you take in for your acid reflux, when are you going to stop taking it?
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  I don't know the Metformin you're taking.
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  That's giving you stomach issues.
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  When are you going to stop taking it?
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  I don't know if you talked to the doctor because you haven't stomach issues.
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  You haven't like other symptoms.
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  You didn't have.
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  And asked to see if they can make some changes and do some thorough blood work I have.
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  Okay.
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  So what's the solution.
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  I don't know.
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  Do you know your worst?
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  Cause I don't know.
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  Do you know, why are you taking these medications and what the outcome is?
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  I don't know.
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  It's that I don't know.
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  Patients don't know.
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  And unfortunately they weren't educated properly on what's going on with the bodies and what they are ingesting.
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  So medical malpractice, again, that's an example of medical injustice.
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  Medical malpractice and neglect.
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  Sometimes From the medical staff, because they are tired.
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  They are overwhelmed.
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  You're burnt out so they can exist.
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  It.
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  They can choose.
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  check when they are taking care of you.
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  And when you ask him too many questions, Unnecessarily.
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  Uh, prescription.
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  So many times patients would tell me I'm on medication.
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  For cholesterol, do you.
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  I have cholesterol.
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  No, I'm a medication for blood pressure.
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  Do you have blood pressure?
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  No.
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  So why are you taking it to prevent cholesterol to prevent blood pressure?
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  Why do we need to take a chemical to prevent an illness?
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  Why not make some changes and do other things to prevent.
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  But anyways, that's those are examples of medical injustice.
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  This could happen to anyone.
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  I thought about the numerous people who symptoms have been ignored, dismissed, or minimized medical injustices.
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  Well, and far more common than we think.
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  We have to talk about this because lives are at stake here.
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  So many half conditions, diseases, diagnosis could have been prevented, manage or treated properly.
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  If we had the proper care.
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  Because medical and justice is so powerful in our Conventional world.
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  Now these diagnosis are just rapid.
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  Next thing you know, you started with the stomach issues, ended up having an ulcer.
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  You stomach.
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  Ended up having stomach cancer.
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  As medical injustice, I felt like I had a personal obligation to inform people to this podcast.
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  I want people to know the importance of self advocacy.
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  You get advocacy.
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  For yourself.
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  Keep asking for help until your needs are met and to listen to your body.
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  I tell my patients that all the time, listen to your body and take actions when things are abnormal.
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  That's okay.
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  If you have to see so many doctors, there is a doctor out there for you.
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  That's going to listen to you, but first.
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  I'm going to do a podcast next week or the week after about choosing a soulmate doctor.
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  If you follow the process that I have in that podcast.
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  Then you won't need to go to this medical injustice or you'll find your doctor in less time.
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  So if you have someone who can advocate on your behalf, right.
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  Many times people will go to the doctor's office visit by themselves.
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  I never recommend that.
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  Always.
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  When someone with you.
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  Someone that's going to ask questions because when we are feeling unwell, we are anxious.
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  We don't think properly, we lost judgment is after you leave your doctor's office, that's when you remember questions or your concern that you wanted to discuss with your doctor.
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  Always burn a list of questions.
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  Always, always call Wistia doctor's office.
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  we can no longer allow our voices to go unheard.
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  Medical injustice needs to be recognized and addressed properly is critical, and we need to draw more attention to it because it is everywhere.
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  We also need providers who are competent.
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  Compassionate and committed to provide care to all people.
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  We need to bring awareness to medical neglect.
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  To step in the right direction so that I, the practitioners and other practitioners alike.
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  We'll know what to do to address this issue.
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  Medical injustice It is.
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  So.
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  visible.
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  That every single office visit, I'm hearing so many things that patients are reporting to me.
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  And at the end of the day, doctors work for the patients, right.
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  We get paid either by insurance or your copay or out of pocket.
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  Fee for service, so therefore we need to make sure we are partnering up with you.
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  We are listening to you so we can fix medical injustice.
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  That's the goal.
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  So please you have a voice, never think that the doctor knows all the doctor knows everything.
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  So you just going to do what the doctor tells you to do.
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  Don't do that, please.
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  If you feel something is off uncertain, you feel an easy speak up.
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  Tell the doctor.
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  I don't understand why she telling me.
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  And can you please explain to me, why am I taking this medication?
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  And also, is there something else we could be doing?
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  I'm going to do a podcast and choosing your soulmate doctor because not only medical injustice is.
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  So in existence here at a lot of people are facing medical injustice.
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  And that is one of the reasons because we have not.
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  Property choose our doctors.
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  so we can get the proper care that we deserve.
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  thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for listening to this episode.
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  Bye-bye.