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One Leg Up On Advocating For Ourselves On the Eve of the Americans With Disabilities Act 7-25-23 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex S. Garrett. All right, well here on
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  the Alex Scarrett Podcast Network, I'm gonna say the positive messaging for the ADA
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  anniversary, for the actual anniversary tomorrow, July twenty six, that will be
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  thirty three years. But I wanted to start this year with the message of
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  accountability, adaptability, and accessibility. And here's where the accountability comes in for
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  those that treat patients and for those that really care for those in the disabled
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  community to have their greatest lives. And I believe everyone that's been treated that
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  I know in this family, in this family, the disabled community has been
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  treated with the utmost care and the utmost how do I say, I don't
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  want to say customer service, but the utmost respect for the most part.
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  I mean, there's a reason why my dad, my dad and I went
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  to see the doctors every year, on the nurses every year on my birthday
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  because they allowed and they they're hard work enable myself and the hard work of
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  a lot of doctors and nurses over the years have enabled a lot of people
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  in the disabled community to keep working. But that doesn't mean to say we
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  can't keep some accountable. We can't keep the industry accountable doesn't mean that I
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  can't talk about the medical misdiagnoses of nearly eight hundred thousand people in the United
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  States which lead to disability or dare I say death. Here's the top five
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  most misdiagnosed diseases yearly, stroke, sepsis, pneumonia, blood clots, and
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  lung cancer. Again, we're gonna go to better and more positive stories I
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  had on this podcast guest on the adaptability feature. But the eight hundred thousand
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  people that are misdiagnosed really should be talked about today. Because while Peter Pitts
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  told News Nation Now that doctors have their hands tied by insurance companies which refuse
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  to cover the costs of tests diagnostic tests, so yes, insurance companies should
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  be held accountable for this as well. There's also the in and out aspect
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  of a doctor's office. Then a doctor literally sees a patient for about seven
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  minutes and then that's it. And Pitts also put it on the patient to
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  be part of the solution. But if you're not getting the right opinions and
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  you feel something is wrong and you don't want to be the statistic of being
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  misdiagnosed. It's a great lesson to just advocate for ourselves. I think a
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  reason why the disabled community is able to thrive today is because of advocacy,
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  not just politically, not just legally, but also also healthcare wise, to
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  advocate for ourselves. Yes, our parents are able to be there for us
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  as well, but at the end of the day, we do astart going
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  to doctor's appointments by ourselves. Right at the end of the day, advocating
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  for ourselves is how we got here thirty three years later as a whole disabled
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  community. So while the medical misdiagnoses is disastrous, and we need to hold
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  doctors accountable for our health care, and insurance companies accountab for our healthcare and
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  dare i say, our medical equipment, it's a great lesson to advocate for
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  ourselves. Remember how we got to this point of honoring the eighty eight thirty
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  three years later. It's because of advocacy. It's because of allies of the
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  able body community as well. And again, I don't let my disability define
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  I don't let my disability and my leg define what I do. But dating
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  within the disabled community has taught me Okay, there's a lot more awareness to
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  be had, there's a lot more conversations to be had, there's a lot
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  more research to be done on how to work and also get your medical services,
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  which we'll discuss next with Jessica Tambor on the Adapting with Alex Garrett feature.
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  And if you're on the One Leg Up feature listening to this, tune
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  in to the links below. We're gonna have a great adapting three different segments
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  in one show. We're gonna set that up for you and play him next
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  here on the Alex Skarrett Podcast Network. But let's have one leg up for
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  on advocacy, because if our doctors don't do it and won't do it and
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  won't take the time to do it, let's make them take the time.
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  Let's talk to them more. Let's remember how we're able to be here today.
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  It's through advocacy, and through that advocacy, well lessen that number of
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  misdiagnoses. On that note, it is a da day tomorrow and I have
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  two very awesome friends joining me next, Jessica Tambor and then Danny Boyce,
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  and then heck, I'll play a bit of a segment I did with m
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  Ron. I'm sorry on the legal lowdown in our final segment today on the
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  Adapting with Alex Skarett feature, stay too, and if you're on the one
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  Leg Up feature, stay tuned for the link of it all in the description below