COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal ㅤ Memory Project
My Mother , My best friend: Jen Wishniak’s Story Transcript
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Timestamp: 00:05:10.604 - 00:05:42.564
About This Clip: Evidence of neglect and lack of basic care, specif
Excerpt: "So he would call and say, you know, I I need to cath, which had to be done every six hours or else his internal pouch that they made would rupture, and then he would become sepsis. So he would call and say, I have to cath. Nobody's coming in to help me. My mom and I would have to call the nurses' station to try to get the nurse on the phone to go into the room and help my dad. And most of the time, we could never get anyone to answer the phone or we could never speak directly to his nurse. You know, they were always busier. They weren't around. They were in patient's rooms. So that was, you know, that was very frustrating that we weren't able to ever speak to to his nurses and get him the help that he needed.
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Timestamp: 00:22:29.109 - 00:23:00.480
About This Clip: Isolation of victim; victim was denied access to s
Excerpt: "However, during that period from twelve twelve to twelve twenty, I mean, or to twelve nineteen, those seven days Mhmm. No one was allowed in there. Because you're They did allow they actually did allow both of my brothers, on on separate dates. They they did go. Yeah. But me and my mom and it's funny because, you know, me and my mom were the ones calling and bugging them every day, all day, and we were not allowed there.
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Timestamp: 00:08:10.410 - 00:08:32.534
About This Clip: The family’s distress at the victim's deterioratin
Excerpt: "my mom went up, and first thing they said to her was, you're not supposed to be here. And she said... She was just so shocked at how bad my dad had deteriorated in that week that he was left there.
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Timestamp: 00:11:18.414 - 00:11:57.105
About This Clip: Victim discusses with emotion about their loved on
Excerpt: "And then, you know, that night, we got a call. They had said that my father was... They lost his pulse, and he was a full code.
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Timestamp: 00:24:01.590 - 00:24:11.345
About This Clip: Describes the impact of limited care and the lack
Excerpt: "because there was no help. Right. I mean, you're in an ER. Nobody even pops their head through the door and says, are you okay?
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Timestamp: 00:07:31.194 - 00:07:48.319
About This Clip: The family was coerced and denied entry to care fo
Excerpt: "But the hospital had their own policy where we weren't allowed in there for fourteen days... because they kept reminding us that we couldn't be there.
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Timestamp: 00:23:15.365 - 00:23:25.109
About This Clip: Victim expresses that their loved one's treatment
Excerpt: "Inhumane. Absolutely terrible. Terrible. And and I feel so bad because, you know, when he would call us and and he would say, Jen, they're not helping.
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Timestamp: 00:26:23.565 - 00:26:32.204
About This Clip: Highlights the tension and disconnect between what
Excerpt: "they were actually surprised that my dad was doing as well as he was and that he was able to talk with the mask on and not getting, you know, so short of breath.
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Timestamp: 00:24:25.339 - 00:24:41.615
About This Clip: Evidence of neglect and lack of basic care, genera
Excerpt: "It is. And it's it's quite intentional because anybody can take five seconds, open up a door and say, everything okay here? Right. Exactly. Do you need anything? And that's it. Even if you just have that once an hour or once every two hours.
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Timestamp: 00:02:19.259 - 00:02:46.989
About This Clip: Denied informed consent regarding the administrati
Excerpt: "During that time, he was given remdesivir, which we weren't aware of, that he was gonna get that, and we weren't told until, you know, was it was too late that he had had it. And my mother had asked them to please stop because she had concerns, about the side effects of the remdesivir. [...] my mother was not allowed in. She had to drop him off at the door.
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Timestamp: 00:08:55.554 - 00:08:58.134
About This Clip: The victim expresses a sense of helplessness and d
Excerpt: "he could say to my mom was thirsty, thirsty, thirsty.
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Timestamp: 00:19:46.470 - 00:19:55.934
About This Clip: The victim's family member expressed concern about
Excerpt: "When my mom got there on the nineteenth, he still had almost all of the catheters she sent him with. And now my dad has had this pouch since...
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Timestamp: 00:02:47.449 - 00:02:59.284
About This Clip: Isolation of victim; the family was separated from
Excerpt: "She wasn't allowed in at all in the ER, and then she had to go pick him up two days later and wait outside. So at no point were we allowed in then. And so everything was kind of just being done over the phone.
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Timestamp: 00:13:49.769 - 00:14:04.764
About This Clip: Evidence of lack of transparency and accountabilit
Excerpt: "Obviously, he passed away, and, we weren't offered an autopsy. We were told he wasn't a candidate. So we just we left. We spent, you know, the two hours that we could with him, and then and we left.
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Timestamp: 00:28:01.869 - 00:28:25.440
About This Clip: Evidence of neglect and lack of appropriate care;
Excerpt: "I do believe that he did die from sepsis, but I also believe that his kidneys... possibly, like I had said, them not taking care of the, the pouch and cathing him with the appropriate catheters in the appropriate way and at the appropriate times definitely contributed to it.
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Timestamp: 00:08:58.514 - 00:09:21.840
About This Clip: Evidence of dehydration and neglect as the victim
Excerpt: "She said he had all these cups on his table full of water but out of his reach, and he was too weak to get up and get them themselves... They said, well, we can't, you know, we can't help him. We're not allowed to help them eat and drink.
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Timestamp: 00:11:30.975 - 00:11:36.789
About This Clip: Misrepresentation or falsification of medical reco
Excerpt: "which I don't know how you can be both, but that's what they said. He was confused and unresponsive...
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Timestamp: 00:29:28.519 - 00:29:55.539
About This Clip: Reflection on the perceived attitudes of hospital
Excerpt: "I think that they knew that my brothers aren't like me and my mom in the sense that, you know, to be aggressive when they need to be aggressive... I think the hospital knew that... me and my mom were just we were just a a thorn in their side and just a complete pain. They certainly didn't care much for us.
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Timestamp: 00:14:07.865 - 00:15:14.080
About This Clip: Evidence of lying or dishonesty regarding medical
Excerpt: "I ended up requesting his medical records, in January. And we got those, and I started going through them. And almost immediately, I found three just blatant lies. And one of them had said that my father was discharged prematurely on the seventh, at my mother's request, which is absolutely untrue. I don't know why they put that in there, but we never requested that he'd be discharged... in those notes, it had said something along the lines of we if we were so worried about him being in isolation that we weren't encouraged to visit, which is blatantly false. We were specifically told we were not allowed there.
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Timestamp: 00:25:27.615 - 00:25:34.994
About This Clip: A vivid description of the victim feeling that nob
Excerpt: "But, you know, then you live it and it's an actual nightmare. You know, it's it's really an actual nightmare what they're doing to these people.