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Listening to Healthcare Experts
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Listening to Healthcare Experts

Listener reflections underscore the significance of healthcare advice, highlighted by poignant stories of medical procedures and transformations. There is a strong emphasis on trusting medical experts and valuing their input for better health outcomes.

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Amazing. That's really interesting. What support do you think helps people stay on track with their health goals in spring? Could it be family, community, reminders, planning, mindset? What do you think? Well, the mindset and people helping it, you know, to remind you about appointments and and you know being honest with you about telling you you look terrible or you you know need to do this you need juice now one time my my friends she fell out on the ground and she fell out on the ground and she hit the ground her mother called the ambulance for and they told her that you know if she didn't get treatment within 30 minutes she would have been dead she had some kind of a vitamin deficiency or something where her blood wasn't And they told her, you know, she would have died. So you got to, you know, listen to people and, you know, accept people's health. And mostly, mostly the most important thing is listen to your doctors. I know you're a doctor and I'm not trying to butter you up or anything, because, you know, I just, I listened to you. I mean, sometimes you disagree with them and you have, I have an honest conversation with them about the situation. and you always end up doing what you think you should do. But you should always listen and appreciate their input and their experience. Like when I was flown to Shock Trauma one time, I've been flown to Shock Trauma twice, helicopter rides, Maryland Shock Trauma. But supposedly it was the first or best in the world, Maryland Shock Trauma. You know, but they had a problem from a car accident. My stomach was something distended in my stomach. And the doctor says, you want us to just take it. They'd like a little incision. You can go in there and do it by camera, or if you want to get cut open. And I was cut from my stomach up to above my breast, like, you know, my breasts or whatever. It was a big, long cut. It's like, you know, 18, 20 inches long. And I said, what's the best, doc? said it was best to get in there and look and see what we got to do. I said, well, just do it. You know, I wasn't conscious about this, about the scar. I wanted the doctor to get in there and see what he, you know, do the best job he could. That's what I listened to him. So.

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