“THESE PATIENTS DESERVE TO BE HEARD” -VAERS WHISTLEBLOWER
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Debra Conrad and I'm a physician assistant at a local community hospital. |
| 0:05.5 | I've been there about 15 years. |
| 0:07.2 | If I'm a hospitalist PA, I take care of the inpatient. |
| 0:11.6 | So if you're in the emergency room and you have to be admitted to the hospital, you'll |
| 0:15.8 | see me and I'll take care of you throughout your hospital stay and discharge you when |
| 0:19.9 | you're ready. |
| 0:20.9 | I love my job. |
| 0:22.7 | I love my job. |
| 0:24.4 | Being in the medical field and knowing how important it is to make sure that we keep |
| 0:28.9 | patients safe is number one priority. |
| 0:31.6 | January, February is when we started hearing about the pandemic and then I remember the |
| 0:35.1 | day that they closed churches and schools. |
| 0:38.1 | The fields are empty. |
| 0:39.6 | The playgrounds deserted. |
| 0:41.9 | And that's when it really hit home for me and I realized, okay, it's coming. |
| 0:45.8 | It's coming here. |
| 0:46.8 | We got to get ready. |
| 0:47.8 | I was actually sent into a larger hospital to learn and train how to take care of potentially |
| 0:55.3 | catastrophic situations. |
| 0:57.7 | Many of us just had severe anxiety during the pandemic thinking we were bringing this |
| 1:02.6 | home to our families. |
| 1:03.9 | There was a bunch of us that went to learn how to do mesh casualty training in case we |
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