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Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety four, a thirty one year old mother
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Speaker 1: was rushed into an emergency room in California with a
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Speaker 1: severely elevated heart rate, her blood pressure was very low,
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Speaker 1: and she was struggling to breathe. As soon as she arrived,
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Speaker 1: the doctors and nurses in this er, who were very
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Speaker 1: accustomed to getting patients like her, got right to work,
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Speaker 1: and as they're treating her, one of the doctors noticed
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Speaker 1: something very strange about the patient. But before this doctor
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Speaker 1: could tell the other nurses and doctors about this anomaly,
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Speaker 1: there was this loud thud inside of the trauma room
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Speaker 1: they were inside of, and then before long there was
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Speaker 1: another thud and another thud, and then someone started screaming,
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Speaker 1: and then minutes later the entire hospital would be evacuated.
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On the night of February nineteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, a man in southern California called nine
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Speaker 1: one one because his girlfriend was struggling to breathe. When
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Speaker 1: the nine to one one dispatcher picked up this man's call,
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Speaker 1: he was very distraught and asked them to please send
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Speaker 1: an ambulance as fast as you possibly can. But despite
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Speaker 1: how upset this man was on the phone, he was
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Speaker 1: not actually surprised this situation was unfolding. His girlfriend, thirty
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Speaker 1: one year old Gloria Ramirez, had been diagnosed with terminal
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Speaker 1: cervical cancer just six weeks earlier, and the doctors had
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Speaker 1: told her that she likely did not have much time left.
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Speaker 1: And making this evil more tragic, Gloria had actually gone
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Speaker 1: into the hospital a few years earlier with symptoms and
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Speaker 1: signs that she likely had cancer, but the doctors missed it.
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Speaker 1: Had they caught it back then, they likely could have
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Speaker 1: saved her. Still, after receiving her very grim diagnosis just
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Speaker 1: a few weeks earlier, Gloria had resolved to fight her
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Speaker 1: cancer as best as she could. After all, she had
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Speaker 1: a lot to lose. Gloria had two young kids. She
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Speaker 1: had a boy and a girl who were nine and
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Speaker 1: twelve years old, respectively, and Gloria absolutely adored them and
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Speaker 1: really devoted her life to them. In the evenings, she
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Speaker 1: would play with them and help them with their homework,
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Speaker 1: and the whole time she'd be cracking jokes to make
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Speaker 1: them laugh and smile. And then, even when Gloria was
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Speaker 1: not actively parenting her kids, she was always a very
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Speaker 1: positive presence in their lives. She was optimistic, she was happy,
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Speaker 1: she was upbeat, and oftentimes she could be found wandering
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Speaker 1: around with a big smile on her face, singing a
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Speaker 1: religious hymn to herself. So when Gloria got this terrible
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Speaker 1: news that she had late stage cancer, she was obviously
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Speaker 1: terrified and sad, but she was also very determined to
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Speaker 1: find a way to survive because she knew her kids
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Speaker 1: still needed her. Around the time Gloria was diagnosed, her
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Speaker 1: doctors told her she would begin radiation treatment for her
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Speaker 1: cancer at the end of February, so she had a
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Speaker 1: few weeks to wait, and so during this waiting period,
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Speaker 1: Gloria found herself spending a lot of time researching her disease,
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Speaker 1: looking for things she could be doing on her own
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Speaker 1: right now to make herself feel better or even potentially
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Speaker 1: increase the odds of her survival. So on February nineteenth,
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Speaker 1: when Gloria told her boyfriend that she was starting to
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Speaker 1: have some issues breathing, the boyfriend didn't hesitate for a
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Speaker 1: second to call nine to one one because he knew
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Speaker 1: firsthand from living with Gloria that she was desperate to survive,
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Speaker 1: and so any changes in her symptoms needed to be
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Speaker 1: treated like an emergency. It was around at eight pm
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Speaker 1: that night when the ambulance pulled up in front of
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Speaker 1: Gloria's home. Paramedics climbed out, they rushed over to Gloria.
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Speaker 1: They put her on a stretcher, they gave her a
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Speaker 1: mask with oxygen, and then they loaded her into the
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Speaker 1: back of the ambulance. And then seconds later they were
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Speaker 1: flying down the road with their sirens blaring while they
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Speaker 1: sped toward the hospital in Riverside, which is a city
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Speaker 1: about an hour east of Los Angeles. One of the
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Speaker 1: paramedics on board the ambulance called ahead to the Riverside
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Speaker 1: Hospital emergency room to talk to one of the doctors
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Speaker 1: and the doctor who answered was a thirty three year
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Speaker 1: old woman named doctor Julie Gorcynski, and she loved her job.
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Speaker 1: She loved the thrill and excitement and challenge of working
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Speaker 1: in a big city emergency room, and so she takes
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Speaker 1: this call. The paramedics tell her that they have a
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Speaker 1: patient who has terminal cancer. She's having a hard time
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Speaker 1: breathing and her heart rate is becoming very unstable, to
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Speaker 1: the point where if it's not controlled soon, it's going
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Speaker 1: to kill her. And they told Julie they would be
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Speaker 1: there in about five minutes, and so Julie she hangs
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Speaker 1: up the phone and immediately began preparing for receiving a
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Speaker 1: critical patient, as well as getting Trauma Room one ready,
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Speaker 1: which is where Gloria would be treated. Now. As bad
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Speaker 1: as this situation was for Gloria, for Julie and the
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Speaker 1: other nurses and doctors in this emergency room, this was
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Speaker 1: kind of business as usual. They were used to receiving
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Speaker 1: patients that were in very rough shape, and so as
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Speaker 1: Julie and the rest of her medical team waited for
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Speaker 1: this ambulance to arrive, none of them were worried that
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to handle this patient. They thought
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Speaker 1: tonight was going to be as routine as any other night. However,
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Speaker 1: they would be very, very wrong. The ambulance ride took
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Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes, so they pulled into the Riverside Hospital
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Speaker 1: right at eight fifteen pm, and as soon as the
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Speaker 1: ambulance came to a stop, the paramedics jumped out. They
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Speaker 1: ran around to the back. They opened up the back doors,
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Speaker 1: they pulled Gloria out, still on her stretcher, and they
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Speaker 1: pushed her as fast as they could through the doors
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Speaker 1: into the emergency room. Once inside, Julie and the rest
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Speaker 1: of her team they took Gloria and they pushed her
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Speaker 1: left down a hallway into Trauma Room one. Once inside,
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Speaker 1: the doctors and nurses immediately noticed that Gloria's heart rate
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Speaker 1: was spiking dramatically and her blood pressure was falling dramatically,
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Speaker 1: So Julie and her team began administering a standard set
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Speaker 1: of treatments for someone in this condition. They switched Gloria's
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Speaker 1: oxygen mask she had been using on the ambulance ride
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Speaker 1: for a more powerful one. They gave her painkillers, sedatives,
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Speaker 1: and drugs to help steady her heartbeat, and at first
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Speaker 1: the treatments seemed to be working, because pretty quickly Gloria's
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Speaker 1: heartbeat began to level out. However, it didn't last. Soon,
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Speaker 1: Gloria's heartbeat was racing so insanely fast that all of
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Speaker 1: these alarms were going off on her heartbeat monitor. Knowing
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Speaker 1: they had to act quickly, Julie and her team began
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Speaker 1: removing Gloria's T shirt in order to administer electric shocks
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Speaker 1: to her chest with paddles. This is a way for
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Speaker 1: doctors to kind of reset a patient's heartbeat. As the
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Speaker 1: nurses got the electric paddles ready, they and the rest
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Speaker 1: of the medical team suddenly noticed two strange things about Gloria.
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Speaker 1: The first was that Gloria seemed to be emitting this
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Speaker 1: strange garlicy smell from her mouth. The second was Gloria's
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Speaker 1: skin looked very greasy. However, despite the entire medical team
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Speaker 1: taking note of these two things, no one thought they
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Speaker 1: were significant. Lots of patients suddenly are brought into the
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Speaker 1: er and very rarely do they have a chance to
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Speaker 1: shower or brush their teeth beforehand, and so they figured
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Speaker 1: that was the reason she looked and smelled that way. Finally,
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Speaker 1: the big electrical paddles were ready, and so the nurses
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Speaker 1: placed them on either side of Gloria's heart, and then
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Speaker 1: they began sending powerful bolts of electricity into Gloria's chest.
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Speaker 1: While the nurses worked on Gloria's heart, other members of
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Speaker 1: the medical team needed to assess Gloria's overall condition, and
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Speaker 1: so to do that they needed to draw her blood.
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Speaker 1: So a nurse took an alcohol wife and cleaned a
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Speaker 1: small spot on Gloria's arm, and then she took a
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Speaker 1: surringe and jabbed it inside of Gloria and began the draw.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as she did this, Trauma Room one
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Speaker 1: filled with a new smell. It was a chemical smell,
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Speaker 1: and Julie immediately noticed it, and she looked over at
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Speaker 1: the nurse doing the blood draw and she said, I
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Speaker 1: think it smells like ammonia in here. And the nurse
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Speaker 1: who was doing the blood draw kind of scrunched her
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Speaker 1: face up in disgust and nodded in agreement. The nurse
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Speaker 1: finished the blood draw and then handed the blood vile
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Speaker 1: to Julie. And as Julie was taking this blood vile
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Speaker 1: from the nurse, she noticed the nurse looked suddenly very confused.
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Speaker 1: And very disoriented. Her eyes were kind of flickering, and
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Speaker 1: she was staring straight ahead like she didn't know where
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Speaker 1: she was. And so Julie she sees this in the
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Speaker 1: nurse and then she glances down at this blood vile
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Speaker 1: in her own hand now and she sees something she's
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Speaker 1: never seen before. The blood inside this vial, Gloria's blood,
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Speaker 1: was full of these small white crystals. But before Julie
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Speaker 1: could tell anybody else in the room about these strange
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Speaker 1: crystals in the patient's blood, the nurse who had done
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Speaker 1: the blood draw went from being dazed and confused to
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Speaker 1: collapsing on the ground. Luckily, another doctor had seen the
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Speaker 1: nurse starting to collapse and dove out and caught her
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Speaker 1: right before her head hit the ground. This collapsed nurse
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Speaker 1: was very quickly placed on a stretcher and wheeled out
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Speaker 1: of Trauma Room one so the other doctors and nurses
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Speaker 1: could focus on Gloria, who was obviously dying. And so Julie,
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Speaker 1: who was still just standing in the middle of this
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Speaker 1: room holding this vile of blood, was wondering what the
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Speaker 1: heck just happened to her colleague. And she's also looking
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Speaker 1: down at these crystals, thinking I've never seen this before.
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Speaker 1: What does this mean? And right as she was about
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Speaker 1: to flag one of the other medical team members over
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Speaker 1: to look at it, Julie began feeling very nauseous and
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Speaker 1: her head started spinning, and then she felt like she
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Speaker 1: might collapse, and so, not wanting to cause any more
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Speaker 1: distractions for the main team, she quickly placed this file
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Speaker 1: of blood on a nearby tray and then she quickly
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Speaker 1: made her way out of Trauma Room one and sat
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Speaker 1: down in a nearby chair. And as soon as she
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Speaker 1: sat down, another staff member at the hospital who had
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Speaker 1: not been inside of the trauma room ran over to
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Speaker 1: Julie and asked her, you know, hey, are you okay?
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Speaker 1: And Julie, she looked up at the staff member and
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Speaker 1: she tried to speak, but she couldn't, and then her
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Speaker 1: eyes rolled back into her skull and she slumped forward
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Speaker 1: and fell to the ground. And at the same moment
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Speaker 1: that Julie was collapsing outside of Trauma Room one, inside
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Speaker 1: of the trauma room, there was another thud as another
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Speaker 1: nurse collapsed, and then another and then another, and before long,
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Speaker 1: screams were coming out of Trauma Room one as people
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Speaker 1: inside who had not collapsed yet are looking around seeing
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Speaker 1: their colleagues just dropping like flies for no reason, And
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Speaker 1: so pretty quickly the call came out over the hospital
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Speaker 1: intercom to evacuate the hospital. The only people that would
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Speaker 1: stay back would be a skeleton crew of doctors and
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Speaker 1: nurses and Gloria, because they felt like moving Gloria outside
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Speaker 1: right now would likely kill her. We need to save
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Speaker 1: her right now. Outside the hospital, the parking lot very
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Speaker 1: quickly filled up with doctors and nurses and other sick
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Speaker 1: people on stretchers. People were screaming and crying, sirens were blaring,
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Speaker 1: and the medical staff that was still healthy was running
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Speaker 1: all over the place looking for supplies to help treat
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Speaker 1: their coworkers. Meanwhile, back inside of trauma room Ie, things
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Speaker 1: for Gloria only seemed to be getting worse. The four
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Speaker 1: doctors and nurses who had stayed back continued to administer
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Speaker 1: more drugs, more shocks to her chest, more oxygen, but
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Speaker 1: no matter what they did, her blood pressure continued to fall,
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Speaker 1: and her heartbeat became fainter and fainter and fainter. Finally,
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Speaker 1: at eight fifty pm, roughly thirty five minutes after Gloria
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Speaker 1: had first been wheeled into the emergency room. She died.
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Speaker 1: In that thirty five minute window, twenty three of Riverside
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Speaker 1: Hospital staff had either collapsed or become very sick and
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Speaker 1: then collapsed, and many of them had to be hospitalized,
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Speaker 1: But the most affected person by far was Julie. She
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Speaker 1: was in such bad shape by the time she made
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Speaker 1: it out to the parking lot that she was actually
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Speaker 1: put on an ambulance from her hospital and driven to
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Speaker 1: another hospital where she was admitted to their intensive care unit.
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Speaker 1: And there a nurse drew her blood and in it
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Speaker 1: were little white crystals, just like in Gloria's blood. At
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Speaker 1: eleven pm on the same night all this craziness happened,
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Speaker 1: a hazardous materials team dressed in full hazmat suits entered
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Speaker 1: the Riverside Hospital to look for a chemical leak, because
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Speaker 1: that was the running theory that some sort of leak
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Speaker 1: had happened in the hospital. It had made its way
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Speaker 1: into trauma Room one, and that's what had caused everyone
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Speaker 1: to collapse and get sick. But despite an extensive search,
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Speaker 1: the hazmat team did not find any leaks. Stumped, authorities
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Speaker 1: decided to just be extra careful around this hospital and
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Speaker 1: around Gloria's body until they figured out what had happened,
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Speaker 1: because the fear was there was some sort of unknown
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Speaker 1: or hidden toxin either in this building or on or
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Speaker 1: in Gloria's body. Six days after the incident, inside of
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Speaker 1: a special air tight room, while wearing full body protective suits,
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Speaker 1: doctors performed an autopsy on Gloria, and they discovered there
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Speaker 1: was absolutely nothing toxic inside of her. In fact, the
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Speaker 1: autopsy only revealed that Gloria had died of natural causes.
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Speaker 1: Her cancer had caused her heart and her kidneys to fail. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: although the other medical staff members who had gotten sick
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Speaker 1: inside of Trauma Room one had mostly recovered, Julie just
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Speaker 1: could not seem to get any better. She had breathing
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Speaker 1: problems and pancreatitis, which is the inflammation of the pancreas
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Speaker 1: and it's very painful, and her bones were literally just
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Speaker 1: starting to die, leaving her in a wheelchair. Gloria's family
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Speaker 1: blamed Riverside Hospital for Gloria's death, insisting that these toxic
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Speaker 1: fumes that must have been present inside of Trauma Room
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Speaker 1: I came from the hospital and those fumes are responsible
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Speaker 1: for what happened to the staff. And they are responsible
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Speaker 1: for killing Gloria. And in fact, three times in the
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Speaker 1: three years leading up to Gloria's death, Riverside Hospital had
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Speaker 1: had some issues with hazardous materials making their way into
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Speaker 1: the hospital. There was sewer gas that came in from
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Speaker 1: a drain, there was a toxic gas that was created
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Speaker 1: from a sterilizer that made two people in the hospital sick.
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Speaker 1: And some of the hospital's water was found to have
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Speaker 1: algae in it. But the hospital said they checked their hospital,
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Speaker 1: there was no leak. We did not cause whatever toxic
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Speaker 1: fumes were inside of Trauma Room IE, and so we
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Speaker 1: are not responsible for what happened to our staff or
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Speaker 1: what happened to Gloria. Riverside Hospital would be searched again
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Speaker 1: and again for some sort of leak. Also, Gloria's home
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Speaker 1: would be searched for toxic gases, and Gloria would be
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Speaker 1: autopsied two additional times, but no one could find anything
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Speaker 1: toxic anywhere. So eventually California's Department of Human and Health
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Speaker 1: Services came forward and said they had the answer to
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Speaker 1: what had happened inside of Trauma Room one. They said
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Speaker 1: it was mass sociogenic illness. Mass sociogenic illness is when
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Speaker 1: a group of people all believed they have the same illness,
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Speaker 1: even though there's nothing wrong with any of them. It's
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Speaker 1: caused by fear and anxiety. Basically, the state of California
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Speaker 1: was saying that Julie and the other twenty two staff
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Speaker 1: members who had gotten sick and collapsed had just pretended
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Speaker 1: they were making it up. As for Gloria, they said
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Speaker 1: she just died from her cancer. Now. Of course, this
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Speaker 1: explanation made a lot of people unhappy, like Gloria's family
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Speaker 1: and of course Julie, whose medical problems were very well documented.
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Speaker 1: She couldn't walk anymore because her bones were literally dying,
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Speaker 1: and so Gloria's family and Julie said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we think the hospital is covering something up and we
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Speaker 1: are going to sue. But before they did, an obscure
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Speaker 1: lab located just outside of San Francisco, California, it was
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Speaker 1: called the Forensic Science Center was called in to do
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Speaker 1: yet another investigation into what happened inside of Riverside Hospital,
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Speaker 1: and what these scientists found would make history. Here is
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Speaker 1: what they discovered. After Gloria was diagnosed with cancer, she
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Speaker 1: began researching not only her disease, but also alternative treatments
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Speaker 1: that she could do on her own. Before she began
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Speaker 1: her radiation treatment at the end of February, and according
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Speaker 1: to the scientists of Forensic Science Center, Gloria must have
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Speaker 1: begun using a well known, controversial home remedy to help
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Speaker 1: with her pain. It was called dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO
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Speaker 1: for short. In the nineteen sixties, DMSO was prescribed to
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Speaker 1: treat pain and anxiety, but as it became more popular,
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Speaker 1: it was discovered that it could cause eye damage, and
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Speaker 1: so the government said, you can't use this anymore. But
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Speaker 1: even though DMSO was no longer available as a medicine,
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Speaker 1: it was still being sold in gel form inside of
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Speaker 1: hardware stores as a heavy duty de greaser. And it
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Speaker 1: was this type of DMSO, the gel form that Gloria
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Speaker 1: had begun rubbing all over her skin head to toe.
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Speaker 1: This was the reason when she arrived in the emergency
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Speaker 1: room her skin looked greasy, because she was literally covered
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Speaker 1: head to toe in this gel. It was also why
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Speaker 1: her breath smelled like garlic, because after dmso is absorbed
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Speaker 1: into your bloodstream, you emit a sort of garlicky smell
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Speaker 1: both through your pores and out of your mouth. But
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Speaker 1: the discovery that Gloria had been using DMSO did not
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Speaker 1: account for why all these people in the hospital began
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Speaker 1: collapsing and falling ill when they were around her. It
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Speaker 1: turned out, on the night that Gloria's boyfriend called nine
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Speaker 1: one one because Gloria was suffering from breathing problems, Gloria
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Speaker 1: was also suffering from another medical issue, but it was
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Speaker 1: so minor the boyfriend didn't think to bring it up
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Speaker 1: to the nine to one one dispatch or to the
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Speaker 1: paramedics when they arrived. And this secret medical condition that
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Speaker 1: Gloria had was a urinary tract infection, which is an
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Speaker 1: infection in any part of the urinary system. These are
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Speaker 1: very common and usually very easy to treat. But what
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Speaker 1: nobody realized was that because Gloria had this infection, her
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Speaker 1: body was not flushing out the DMSO chemicals that had
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Speaker 1: seeped inside of it from all this gel on her skin. Still,
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Speaker 1: even very large amounts of DMSO chemicals inside of your
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Speaker 1: body or on your skin is not enough to cause
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Speaker 1: any harm to you or people around you. The danger
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Speaker 1: started when the EMTs in the ambulance put that oxygen
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Speaker 1: mask on Gloria's face as they transported her to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Suddenly there was this new chemical being introduced into Gloria's body, oxygen,
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Speaker 1: And the scientists from the Forensic Science Center said, this
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Speaker 1: new chemical oxygen began interacting with the dmso caemicals trapped
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Speaker 1: inside of Gloria's body and together they formed a new chemical. Now,
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Speaker 1: if Gloria had gotten to the hospital and responded more
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Speaker 1: positively to the treatments and medicines that the doctors and
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Speaker 1: nurses at the er gave her than Julie and the
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Speaker 1: rest of the staff inside of that hospital would never
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Speaker 1: have gotten sick. For that to happen, for that catastrophe
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Speaker 1: to play out inside of that hospital, two very specific
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Speaker 1: things had to happen in the correct order, and they did. First,
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Speaker 1: there was the electric shocks. When the medical team was
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Speaker 1: pumping electrical shocks into Gloria's chest. The scientists from the
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Speaker 1: Forensic Science Center say, those charges of electricity interacted with
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Speaker 1: that new chemical that had been created inside of Gloria
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Speaker 1: and it changed this new chemical again, and this time
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Speaker 1: the change made the chemical deadly. It became what's known
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Speaker 1: as dimethyl sulfate, which was used as a chemical weapon
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Speaker 1: in World War One. Once Gloria received those shocks to
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Speaker 1: her chest, her body basically became a canister of nerve gas.
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Speaker 1: And then one of the nurses drew Gloria's blood, which
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Speaker 1: was the second event that ultimately set off the catastrophe.
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Speaker 1: Emergency rooms are typically kept fairly cold, roughly sixty six
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Speaker 1: degrees fahrenheit, But when this new deadly chemical was created
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Speaker 1: inside of Gloria, it was still inside of her body
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Speaker 1: where it was warm, and for dimethyl sulfate, when it
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Speaker 1: is warm, it's unstable and much less dangerous. But when
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Speaker 1: that nurse drew Gloria's blood, inside of the blood was
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Speaker 1: the deadly chemical, and now it was no longer in Gloria.
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Speaker 1: It was in this cool sixty six degree room, and
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Speaker 1: so it began to stabilize and started producing those little
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Speaker 1: white crystals inside of the blood vial that Julie saw.
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Speaker 1: And as it stabilized, it turned into a gas and
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