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Denied Right-to-Try and Doctor Lies Transcript

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Timestamp: 00:42:41.264 - 00:42:49.940

About This Clip: The victim is denied clear communication about med

Excerpt: "I said, well, did you get? I never could get a straight answer. And I said, well, I wanna see that transfer request. Well, I said, why not? And he said, well, because I call him.

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Timestamp: 01:20:06.739 - 01:20:24.724

About This Clip: The speaker reflects on the emotional impact of lo

Excerpt: "My poor grandchildren, they loved him so much. ... He never even got to see her. It's all he wanted.

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Timestamp: 01:09:21.289 - 01:09:55.235

About This Clip: Evidence of denial of life-saving measures and exp

Excerpt: "the world lost a wonderful, good man that didn't need to die. He didn't die. The COVID because they wouldn't give him life saving measures that he deserved. What would it have hurt? What would it hurt to just try it? They'd already told me he was gonna die. Why couldn't they just try? But we were denied.

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Timestamp: 00:16:58.169 - 00:17:16.414

About This Clip: Victim indicates pressure to admit their loved one

Excerpt: "And I said, well, can you not send him home with oxygen? He said, well, that takes time to set up... you take your chances or, let us admit him.

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Timestamp: 01:19:46.470 - 01:19:57.335

About This Clip: The speaker describes feeling a sense of responsib

Excerpt: "I just felt so responsible to try to save him. And I couldn't. And no matter where I turned, I wasn't getting any help.

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Timestamp: 01:11:29.449 - 01:11:49.175

About This Clip: The victim discusses discrepancies in medical reco

Excerpt: "What stands out to me is that in the record, it says that they found him nonresponsive with no pulse. But yet the first thing out of that doctor's mouth was good thing we caught him in time or found him in in time because he was still, with us. You know, he still had a pulse.

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Timestamp: 00:15:34.860 - 00:16:18.065

About This Clip: Victim details their experiences of neglect in ter

Excerpt: "I really think that's when I first realized that he wasn't being treated... I said, well, he can't wait. He says he's got to go now... they were furious that I had gotten him out of bed and into the hall.

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Timestamp: 00:38:25.360 - 00:39:11.144

About This Clip: The victim describes being pressured to make immed

Excerpt: "I'm trying to understand. I'm trying to focus. First of all, I'm sleep deprived. I'm hungry. I'm afraid to leave him. I don't trust anybody. I'm scared for his life. And then they come at me with all these questions... what it amounted to is they needed his bed.

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Timestamp: 00:14:38.340 - 00:15:11.190

About This Clip: Victim discusses being denied alternative treatmen

Excerpt: "And then I said, well, what about, hydroxychloroquine? And he said, no to that. And... I said for that, and they said, well, we'll we'll request it, but there's a real shortage on that right now.

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Timestamp: 00:28:05.805 - 00:28:22.410

About This Clip: The victim expresses a feeling of being manipulate

Excerpt: "I put I physically put my hand up and I said, stop. Stop. Stop. Stop talking... he did lose consciousness. He had no color. He wasn't breathing. He had no pulse.

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Timestamp: 00:40:25.929 - 00:40:45.764

About This Clip: Victim expresses a feeling of mistrust in the hosp

Excerpt: "I don't like it here. I don't know what's going on. I don't trust y'all. I don't feel comfortable. I don't feel good. Something's wrong. I want him to go, to Baptist or to UAMS anywhere in Little Rock. And they said, well, he can't be transferred now. He he's too sick.

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Timestamp: 00:37:14.344 - 00:37:23.885

About This Clip: The victim expresses a deep emotional struggle reg

Excerpt: "And when he said I was letting him die, it broke me because this is somebody I love.

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Timestamp: 00:31:30.400 - 00:32:01.250

About This Clip: Denied alternative treatments: The victim's reques

Excerpt: "So I asked them for that. And, my stepdad was standing there and they go, oh, no. No. No. We don't do that here. We have approved medications that are on the protocol. They are safe and effective. Ivermectin is not one of them. That is horse medicine. And I said, no. No. No. No. It's not horse medicine. Ivermectin, is a medication that's been around for years and years, and it is prescribed to people.

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Timestamp: 01:12:28.130 - 01:14:01.175

About This Clip: The victim expresses feelings of being manipulated

Excerpt: "One of the things you just made me think about was, you know, when they told me that it wasn't in their hospital protocol, they didn't even tell me... what medicine he was on... Not one time did they say, oh, we can't give you ivermectin, but here's patient. It doesn't do this, and it didn't even tell me what it does, you know, to the body.

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Timestamp: 00:36:07.369 - 00:37:12.684

About This Clip: The victim indicates that the medical staff insist

Excerpt: "And if we could put him on a vent, it would give his lungs a rest... If you don't, you're letting him die.