¶ Why Refuse Treatment But Still Come?
I guess my question is exactly what Jackademic asked is why are you here ? You know , like I'm not mad that you want to do things a different way , but what is very curious is why are you here fighting with me when you don't have to Like you know you don't have
¶ Trust Issues Within Healthcare
to be here .
Not only is there issues among patients questioning us , there's even issues among our own colleagues , where you have your own colleagues who are questioning vaccines .
And that we do have .
It's a major problem because I've seen that . I've seen that if you have one person on and they believe certain things that are specifically related to like anti-vax or anti-establishment type things you bring that up to a patient , that person goes off service . You come on and you talk about tried and true practices , standards of care and all these different things .
Now , all of a sudden they don't trust you . That scares me more than a patient coming in and just refusing
¶ Surgeon Caught Using Cocaine
to get care .
Actually , we've got some news about a Houston doctor being suspended after he allegedly was found to test positive for cocaine while he was performing surgery . Yeah , where'd it say ?
you . Yeah , so this doctor I don't want to say his name , I don't think he needs to have his name out there , but it's already out there but his doctor , basically urologist performing surgery while on cocaine , and it's crazy , it's all over the news . I have a lot of different thoughts on this from , obviously , the first thing is patient safety Also , too .
You know how we treat surgeons or how we treat doctors in general who have substance abuse . Substance abuse issues also Right and um . For me , I'll always land on the side of you got to make sure that things are safe for your colleagues and you also make sure that things are safe for the patients .
Um , this crazy , but basically showing , if I explain the story to me first , because I think you showed the story to me first . So what happened ?
I think he was just I'm not sure exactly how he was found to be positive , but it seems as though he was on a program within the hospital that was essentially testing him potentially randomly , I guess .
That was essentially testing him potentially randomly , I guess , and he was found to test positive allegedly while performing surgery , and so he obviously has a history . So this is not the first time that he's tested positive for some sort of substance , some sort of illegal substance , but that's how the story goes .
Yeah . So for the folks who are listening , if you're younger , if you're a pre-med medical student , resident , just know that the state , every state , has like a board of medicine and they have a provision or they have resources to help physicians and health care professionals who are obviously going through substance abuse issues . So they can one get . Well
¶ Public Reaction to Medical Misconduct
, one is make sure that they can no longer hurt or possibly hurt any patients , right , so they take them off , right , they can't practice anymore for a certain period of time .
Then the case gets reviewed and then they , you know , they go through therapy , they go through rehab and , depending on what the egregious nature is , you know , if they're able to show that they're going through rehab and they're progressing through it , there's a possibility that they may be able to enter back into medical practice .
But it's usually heavily governed , right , like you have to check in with somebody every so often , or you have to submit to this amount of tests every so often , or , in essence , you're kind of like on probation for a certain period of time and then you know you're able to go back on your own .
It's a tough subject , yo yeah , tough this is really tough man well , I'm glad they were able to get him off and , and you know so , he can't possibly hurt anybody Undefinitely . That's the most important thing .
So the reason that I brought this to your attention , to the team's attention , wasn't so much because he , you know , allegedly tested positive for cocaine . That obviously is important allegedly tested positive for cocaine that obviously is important . But what I found extremely interesting were the comments that people had . Yeah , so on Instagram , right ?
So one comment was that Coke probably had him doing the best surgeries . Another comment was well , a lot of doctors and nurses are on drugs . It's called functional addicts . I'm like is this what people really think is going on ?
Someone else said he did my surgery and did an amazing job and I did some more power to the snowflake he doing what he got to do to stay up . Someone else said I bet he was super focused . I'm like , what is going on in these comments ? He probably the best doctor in the hospital . That's another comment .
Drug use is pretty accepted . I guess Were the surgeries successful .
You know I'm like what . Now I know that some of this is like jokes and jest . I know some of this . You would be surprised . I know some of this is jokes and jest . My problem was I couldn't figure out which ones were jokes and which ones were not .
Good luck on the comics . You're not going to figure it out , I know , because the social media is not for context . Oh my , oh , my god . You're not gonna get anything more than it's just in the ether , that's it .
you ain't gonna get anything more than I mean , you know , someone wrote this is not news . Someone wrote they do this . A lot of them , not all , do this . They have to either be tipsy or under some kind of chemical dependency . Pilots as well . A lot of the a of them fly loaded , but we can't drink and drive .
I mean for my .
Listen .
What Substance abuse , whatever type of dependency you may have , is a lot more prevalent than we want to admit , and it's made its way into various professions , even some of the more sacred professions that you just would not want that to occur .
So do I believe that there possibly could be pilots , of course , people who drive buses , of course , you know obviously even physicians , of course , who are under the influence Absolutely . If there's a program to handle that , there's a reason why there's a program to handle that . You know we got an abuse problem here , or substance abuse problem here .
It's not just in the United States .
No , but yeah , that's the issue . I mean , come on now , like a lot here , a lot of doctors do coke A lot , not some A lot .
We should get the percentages of that .
I know we do need to get the percentages . What is a lot ? What does that mean ? Somebody didn't get their supply because he ain't been doing it .
Someone wrote we need to see his history before we judge . Lol , I mean the man on call all the time Judge Law . I mean the man on call all the time .
I'm like but did he die ? Oh my Lord , a lot more common than y'all think . Okay , but I just I thought that the comments were Wow .
You know , you probably thought they were going to be super like con like super against the surgeon . I seem to be very pro like let them live . Type comments Right Like yeah , like you know .
So what ? Like we see this all the time , or you know , yeah , of course it happens . It's like this all the time , you know . My question comes now that we talked about our previous discussion , right , our previous question about well , why won't people , you know , come into the hospital ?
Why would people come into the hospital if they don't want us to take care of them ? And I'm like , on the other hand , we have , yeah , but y'all are high on drugs anyway . So I'm like , well , what are we doing
¶ Medicine's Public Image Crisis
here ? I don't understand .
Well , we got a major publicity problem going on , right now yeah , medicine has a major publicity problem going on right now , as with most other things , right , people don't trust institutions , and medicine is one of them . There's plenty of reasons why . You know , I could see people who are not in health care , people who are not in medicine , you know .
Just don't trust health care , right ? Yeah , if you grew up in a certain time in the 20s and 30s or in the 40s and 50s , and if you probably are African-American , you're like man , fuck the health care system . Specifically , I'm talking about the Tuskegee , you know , syphilis experiment , among a whole bunch of other different things , right , you know ?
so it's just OK , well , I got your percentage right here , because someone said half half . So between you and me , one of us , half the medical industry is on it . Why is this even news ? Let's talk about big pharma instead , okay .
But that's just a comment . I understand that Half of medical professionals are not on the statistics I know that . I know that . No , but I'm just saying that for clarity's sake , because I don't want nobody trying to see it .
No , no , no , no no . I'm just saying that somebody in the comments decided that they were going to put a percentage .
We got to make sure we put out some good information also . Yeah , well , All right well .
It's just very interesting considering the conversation that we just had .
Hopefully no patient was injured during this time and stuff .
I really hope not .
Just make sure that that surgeon , that doctor , gets the help that he needs . Yes please , everybody , remember . You can always reach out to us so many different ways . You can send us a text , go to the show notes . There's multiple ways in which you can get in touch with us and listen .
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¶ Episode Closing and Contact Information
profile . You'll see some pictures and videos in there about what I did this past weekend .
Anything else you want to ?
say , dr Renee , why y'all come to the hospital if you don't want no way to treat you ? And on that note y'all . We'll catch you guys on another episode of Watch how I Say Friday , y'all Peace .