No One Deserves to Die Alone. ZDoggMD video response. End of life policies during the pandemic. Why aren’t we asking WHY?

The Cellfie Show

Tori Meskin x Sam Manassero

Education, Self-improvement, Medicine, Careers, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 553 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Tori + Sam weigh in on end of life considerations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus is to be feared and a serious threat. But we need to stop making excuses for hospital administration. We the medical field are failing our patients at the end of life in COVD units. PPE, visitor policies, science and critical thinking. Discussing visitor policies, pediatric vs. adult standards. Why aren’t we asking why? We argue and encourage healthcare to speak up. We need each other to press hospital administration to do better for our patients, and for us as providers. True change doesn’t happen until we bring it to light. Power in numbers and healthcare is a force to be reckoned with. We are the first to tell you, as medical providers, we get stuck in our ways. Allow enough PPE to allow a visitor or two at the end of life. To connect with Nurse Tori click https://www.instagram.com/nurse.tori_/ (HERE) To connect with Sam Manassero click https://www.instagram.com/heysamanthaa/ (HERE) To connect with Cellfie Show click https://www.instagram.com/cellfie_podcast/ (@cellfiepodcast) Cellfie Show https://www.cellfiepodcast.com (https://www.cellfiepodcast.com) Cellfie Podcast Merch https://www.cellfiepodcast.com/shop-1 (https://www.cellfiepodcast.com/shop-1) Connect with us: https://www.cellfiepodcast.com/cellfieshowcontact (https://www.cellfiepodcast.com/cellfieshowcontact) Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/ (https://www.purple-planet.) Produced by: Tori + Sam + Christian ZDoggMD “THEY MAKE PATIENTS DIE ALONE…AND WE LET THEM” https://zdoggmd.com/dying-alone/ (https://zdoggmd.com/dying-alone/) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	I felt
0:02.0	I felt compelled to speak out as a person in health care to say, hey, we got to talk about this, and we got to do better because it's not okay.
0:33.7	No one should ever die alone.
0:36.4	Hey, guys.
0:40.8	Welcome back to the selfie show. For those of you new to the show, my name is Tori Meskin. I'm the founder of the Selfie Show. I am a nurse, blogger, and podcaster. And sitting
0:45.6	across from me is my beautiful co-host. So I'm Sam. I'm an emergency flight nurse, former
0:52.2	NICU nurse, college professor, and powerlifter.
0:57.5	Someone of an Instagram curator, you might say. Yeah. But now co-host of the selfie show.
1:03.9	Yeah. And the tone of this week is going to be a little different, you guys. We, I sent Sam a video last night. And it's funny because this is a very hot
1:18.1	topic. This is something that I think is very timely. Sam and I like to hit things head on with
1:23.5	timely controversial issues. And this is definitely one.
1:32.5	So last night I sent her this video.
1:39.2	It was Z-Dogs forcing patients to die alone is the title of the video.
1:48.0	And I sent it to her, and it's funny because I said, I would really like to comment on it. But then I was actually really nervous too because I felt like I was going to get chewed up by health care providers.
1:56.0	Yeah. So when you sent it to me, it was more not even so much like, hey, watch what he's saying,
2:01.6	because you kind of listened to his video and agreed with him.
2:05.3	But the reason you sent it to me more was like, hey, check out the comments in this.
2:10.0	And you were pretty surprised by the backlash in the comments and some of the back and forth
2:15.7	between different health care providers in there.
2:18.0	And you were like, I kind of want to comment, but I'm afraid because there's some pretty
2:24.4	strong opinions going on in their opinions on that.
2:27.3	You know, there was a picture of a doctor that went viral in the news. He's comforting a dying
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