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Served his country only to have his country kill him! VA hospital in Oklahoma City killed my brother. Transcript
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Timestamp: 00:15:54.264 - 00:16:05.565
About This Clip: Pervasive sense of wrongdoing and victims feeling
Excerpt: "They wanted to put him on a ventilator. And they did they they used scare tactics, in there to tell Michael that if he did not get ventilated, that he was going to die.
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Timestamp: 00:19:30.305 - 00:19:35.605
About This Clip: The victim expresses a painful sentiment that her
Excerpt: "only to have his country, i e v a hospital, kill him. And for what? Money?
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Timestamp: 00:08:29.240 - 00:08:39.235
About This Clip: Victim expresses a sense of wrongdoing and emotion
Excerpt: "And I told them, and it's actually in his medical records that I called and said that he isn't married, you know, but they would take it up with, I don't know, patient advocacy or whatever the heck they said.
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Timestamp: 00:07:49.964 - 00:08:02.490
About This Clip: Victim discusses refusal of medications, specifica
Excerpt: "I called the VA hospital, the twenty second of September that evening, spoke to a male nurse by the name of David, and I said, do not let my brother. Do not give him remdesivir. Okay. That's what he said.
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Timestamp: 00:13:05.495 - 00:13:10.715
About This Clip: The victim's mouth was described as "blood red" an
Excerpt: "His mouth was so blood red. It was like his mouth was bleeding. It was so dry.
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Timestamp: 00:09:03.084 - 00:09:14.639
About This Clip: Victim believes something was wrong with the care
Excerpt: "So they did, in hindsight, I was able to get his records, and I looked over everything. And they did four of their PCR tests before they finally got a what they call positive test.
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Timestamp: 00:10:01.575 - 00:10:14.269
About This Clip: Victim discusses denial of food and water, resulti
Excerpt: "I asked him if they gave him any food or water because he had lost a lot of weight, and he said no. They had the BiPAP machine on him the entire time. No food. No water. He was kept in isolation.
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Timestamp: 00:19:22.340 - 00:19:25.720
About This Clip: The victim mentions the overall health situation o
Excerpt: "this just blows my mind that Michael did not have to die.
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Timestamp: 00:11:02.950 - 00:12:34.294
About This Clip: Victim's family discusses the administration of me
Excerpt: "every day, they kept giving him remdesivir, dexamethasone, and a few other things... I thought I saw something in his records that that basically said that they would DNR him and send him home. ... they actually have him weighing in at two seventy five. When he left the VA hospital, he weighed two hundred per their charge.
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Timestamp: 00:14:14.820 - 00:14:17.720
About This Clip: Complaints about medication administration when Su
Excerpt: "he should never have been getting remdesivir to begin with.
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Timestamp: 00:12:39.475 - 00:12:49.720
About This Clip: Family was pressured to threaten the hospital with
Excerpt: "we had to threaten the news channel or the VA with the news channel. We told them that we're gonna get our lawyers and that we're gonna go to the news channel if you don't get my well, released and sent home immediately.
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Timestamp: 00:16:06.240 - 00:16:08.660
About This Clip: Misrepresentation or falsification of medical reco
Excerpt: "And they they actually said that on his charts as well.
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Timestamp: 00:10:21.415 - 00:10:40.629
About This Clip: Victim mentions being pressured to ventilate again
Excerpt: "they had his girlfriend, Rhonda, come in on Thursday to try to convince Michael to get on their ventilator because Michael had said from the day one when he went in, no ventilator. And so his girlfriend did tell me that she went to go see him and that she would honor Michael's request and not, get put on a ventilator.
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Timestamp: 00:15:51.464 - 00:16:08.660
About This Clip: Denial of informed consent as Sue indicates that M
Excerpt: "They did not want to release Michael. They wanted to vent Michael. They wanted to put him on a ventilator. And they did they they used scare tactics, in there to tell Michael that if he did not get ventilated, that he was going to die. And they they actually said that on his charts as well.
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Timestamp: 00:14:46.710 - 00:14:56.404
About This Clip: Privacy violation concerning the sharing of Michae
Excerpt: "we found that, it has Michael's name listed on here. But directly under Michael's name, they have the name and information of another patient. To me, that seems like a HIPAA violation.
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Timestamp: 00:08:15.714 - 00:08:45.740
About This Clip: Victim discusses the denial of informed consent as
Excerpt: "Well, they wouldn't talk to me because his girlfriend, Rhonda, had told them that she was his wife. ...So needless to say, my hands were tied. I could not go in to see my brother. I could not advocate for them.
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Timestamp: 00:13:47.950 - 00:14:01.424
About This Clip: Neglect as Sue points out the oddity of Michael be
Excerpt: "he wasn't, incontinent when he went in, but, apparently, maybe some of the medication they were giving him possibly could have helped with that, so that he was. But they actually had his catheter bag hanging on the wall, which doesn't make sense.
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Timestamp: 00:17:44.115 - 00:17:52.375
About This Clip: The victim recounts that Michael should never have
Excerpt: "Michael, he was right at that borderline. He should never have been given the remdesivir period, you know.