And I thought, once I get this, I won't have the blockages anymore. Smoke jumpers were parachuted in a team of 15 headed by a foreman named Wag Dodge. The patient just fell off the litter. That's how embedded people get in the status quo. He was featured in the film. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If there is a 50-minute queue, I'm sure we can probably squeeze them into the schedule. The only other country, by the way, is New Zealand. And I hope our new generation of health professionals will catalyze this social movement that's necessary and enough people get aroused enough about the situation and see it for what it is and then start some kind of grassroots movement to change the political balance of power. The emergency department is the safety net of health care. ORNISH: The program increased the telomere length. PROTESTERS: Now. We have to be mindful to those points in time where you can intervene and say enough's enough. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I love you, too! And we're going to be doing CPR on a patient. He lit a match and he lit a fire at his own feet. They couldn't get insurance. MARTIN: It was a dire situation and there are many times that myself and my colleagues would have the conversation of, you know, we are going to miss something, this could be really bad, and actually having the fear that this was going to be harmful to our patients at some point. So, we decided to give you a look at a typical operating room bill and that breaks down. Both of these approaches are necessary, but it would be great if we had a better balance in Western medicine. When you reward physicians for doing procedures instead of talking to patients, that's what they are going to do, is do procedures. A lot of that comes you spoke - we spoke about are driven by people who don't have access to the system. Fire Escape Transcript. You just look different. All right, so take a breath. (COMMERCIAL BREAK). I think many of her cardiac catheterizations instead would not have been necessary. Driven by these perverse economic incentives, we are doing a lot of procedures to people that they don't need. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. And doctors wanting to please their patients will often prescribe it. Let's be honest. There's nothing else I can do. We can't prevent disease in everybody, but we have to try. WEIL: In Western medicine, all of our effort is on dispelling evil. And that model has continued until today. They are often poor patients, but not always. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, Mr. Fields. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel like I'm warming up a little bit. That cost about 1,000You'll find examples like this all over a room. DR. JEFFREY CAIN, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS: We know that patients are healthier when they have two things. We have to find the right mix of treatments for the guys, and the answers are not in a sack of pills. They become more productive. It was a passion for healing. CHO: I was trying to figure out how much Yvonne's care would have been over the years, and I think it's well over $1.5 million. I can't be having heart problems. ROBERTS: The research found that embracing a low-fat vegetarian diet, exercising half an hour a day, and taking part in daily stress reducing activities can actually change the regulation of genes that are key players in cancer development and contribute to better overall survival. If someone had talked to her -- I think someone had really teased out her chest pain and shortness of breath, I think many of her cardiac catheterization and stents would not be necessary. RICE: You know, I think, the biggest incentive for patients is that they are going to leave a higher quality at longer life. If you look at a hospital bill, you might see an IV bag charge. And all insurance companies are saying is your behavior should drive the premium. Trying to get Medicare to cover a heart disease program has been by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life. detail. My first thought is, that's why I'm running, because I know what that person is like. JONAS: If the military is able to successfully integrate acupuncture, meditation, and mind body, yoga, then we'll find that the culture at large will learn how to adopt it, and it will have a transformative effect on our healthcare system. Brownlee, Shannon, commentator. POTTER: We have been trying to reform the health care system for a hundred years. Our automatic transcription software will convert your video to text in just a few minutes (depending on the length of your video). Six years ago before I became CEO, I stopped to think, I've never looked after a healthy person and maybe it would be easier to take care of people and keep them from getting sick before they actually did get sick. So Doctor Rice, let me start with you. And that is why, our first priority has to be to equalize that access and then move on. Log in to your account. That prevents tissues from renewing themselves in the body and diseases take hold. This is all coming out of our pockets. I mean, the average price tag for a single hospital admission can be really eye-popping. WEIL: In the year of for-profit medicine, the time allowed for patient visits has shrunk to a point where you've got seven minutes with a patient. Even if I lose 30 more pounds, which probably is my ultimate target, I'm not going to stop doing this. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When do we want it? If it's a radiologist, they get paid for each CT scan they deliver. It would be a very different system that probably would be less high-tech and more high touch. I was on Valium just for the anxiety. HEALTH DOCUMENTARIES FULL LENGTH: Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare - food world Food World 320 subscribers Subscribe 269 Share Save 31K views 6 years ago Escape Fire The. GUPTA: In the spirit of educating people out there, I think I have cardiac disease in my family. There is no reason that exact approach can't be applied across the board to drugs, to other diagnostic tests. They can pretty much get away with increasing the rates as much as they want to. So I decided to leave. So tired of it. Again, you were part of the documentary. We have made all of this unhealthy food the cheapest and most available food. We want more procedures. But, that's not the whole story. 0. I mean, everyone wants that probably in every system. I started getting sick in my 30s. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think we have about 25 patients for today for Dr. Martin. That simply means they get paid for each office visit. People talk about two-minute doctors. YATES: I meditate, and it has opened up a whole new world for me. And the actual costs for care here is among the lowest in the country. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh. And that's because our system reimburses people for doing tasks and doing procedures, not for necessarily making people healthier. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: First one's going in. Is that a fair message? YATES: OK. NANCY DAVENPORT-ENNIS, FOUNDER, CEO, PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: So, what we tell them first and foremost, is get a copy of the entire bill and look for redundancies. Thanks all of you for joining us. Is that how you get paid? There was obviously a problem. The fire raged past Wag Dodge and overtook the crew, killing thirteen men and burning 3,200 acres. WENDELL POTTER, FORMER HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS, CIGNA: There's the assumption that people who run government, elected officials, members of Congress, but it's not true in many cases. We're fighting everything for that not to happen, but it's because there isn't the funding going into primary care. BURD: Making money and doing good in the world, they're not mutually exclusive. YATES: The pain, it's hard, you know, it's really hard. We just have to do it differently. They are going to healthcare. WEIL: Right. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know, I'm only 34 years old. There's also administrative costs that are built in. Escape Fire: The Fight To Save American Health Care. And abolitionists more broadly encouraged northerners to refuse to comply with the enforcement of fugitive slave laws and to disobey the Supreme Court's ignoble Dred Scott v. It's an expensive world to live in in terms of getting your voice heard in D.C., but that's the whole function of advocacy. If they are surgeons, they get paid for each procedure. They'll say, it took years to develop something like this, the research and development costs are significant. We are second to none in this country for those things. Takes about 15 minutes for you. Alexander/Transcript. He tried to get the other smoke jumpers to join him, and nobody did. When telomere wear down and get frayed, the genetic material would get messed up. The answers among us, can we please stop and think and make sense of the situation and get our way out of it? Entitled Escape Fire, Dr. Berwick's speech took its audience back to the year 1949, when a wildfire broke out on a Montana hillside, taking the lives of 13 young men and changing the way firefighting was managed in the United States. I'm one of the busiest surgeons in the country, however, I don't believe every men with prostate cancer needs immediate treatment. 2. The next 30 minutes are all about you, the patient, whether you're insured or not insured, it matters. I smoked six cigars a day, 10 cups of coffee, a lot of wine. We create a public expectation that more is better, which isn't actually true so people seek more. What the insurance industry's objective is, is to try to weaken those consumer protections over time and to try to influence how the law is being implemented. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Without the financial incentives, there's no way I could have gotten to the point that I am now, at saving literally thousands of dollars over the past few years by being healthier. That was the message that, you know, I think was the you got from that documentary. (END VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: Dr. Erin Martin, that's a primary care doctor you just saw in the film. John than, you'll have to excuse me because you're an economist I'm not. Just do something. There's the bright blue slush. If you get a bump on your head as a friend of mine had, and you go into the emergency department, in America, you get a cat scan. . She's still taking her Lexapro, but it's obviously not doing the job. But we're going to talk to them about it still, you know? You just never get to the bottom of what's causing all of these problems that they are having. All Americans have accepted for 50 or more years in the automobile insurance industry that driving record dictates premium. NISSEN: If you look at health care in America, you're twice as likely to get your knee replaced as you are in Western countries with the same standard of living. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I quit drinking, too. GUPTA: You know, one can't help but walk away from the documentary, Doctor , frankly, they are scared of stents. ROSS: OK, what was it, Mr. Linton, that finally made you say, okay, that's it. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel different. I took care of them and I was responsible for them and just worrying about if somebody else is going to do for them what they need. There are answers, we know what safe care looks like. Now you're going to get the scissors. He had -- he had Percocet then he has Marco which is Percocet. BROWNLEE: More than half of men over the age of 50 get a PSA test every year to try to detect prostate cancer early. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We'll do it at the front. Instead of basing things on outcomes, on how good of a job we're doing, the government sets the reimbursement completely on the number of patients that we see. When I had my first heart attack, did the cardiac catheterization, put the thing up there and put a stent in my heart, because I had a clogged artery. I actually practice emergency medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. This drug was the number one selling diabetes drug in the world in 2006. Well, you have a stent in your heart, right? Select "Show Transcript" from the menu. Good. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Our life span isn't even in the top 20. OK. Escape From Tarkov developer Battlestate Games has issued a statement outlining its plans to tackle cheaters in the game, following the release of a community-made video . DR. REED TUCKSON, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF OF MEDICAL AFFAIRS, UNITED HEALTH GROUP: There is no question that primary care doctors are underpaid, especially relative to their specialty counter parts, those who do procedures. Stay tuned because afterwards, we're going to have a very important discussion regarding what we can all do to live longer and healthier lives and maybe avoid unnecessary costs and procedures. If you go out and buy heart healthy diet food, it's going to cost you more money than anything. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. We cut people open, re-bypass their blocked arteries and he would tell them they were cured, and they'd go home and more often than not eat the same junk food, smoke, and not manage stress, not exercise, and then often their bypasses would clog up, so we cut them open, we bypass their bypass, sometimes multiple times. Video: This tiny shape-shifting robot can melt its way out of a cage . I think this is important because I think when people watch the film, they are left with the impression that Yvonne finally came to the Cleveland clinic. YATES: Meditation is scary sometimes. The fire exploded, it's moving over 600 feet a minute, faster than most people could ever run. We have a lot more power over how healthy we are than we are willing to take credit for or willing to take responsibility for. (LAUGHTER) NIEMTZOW: Hi. When you go over into a war zone where you see your buddies die or you get injured, that's going to tax anybody. I would probably leave healthcare before I went back to practicing the way I practiced last year. She had had bypass surgery at an early age. MARTIN: Good. CINDY ROBERTSON, ADMINISTRATOR, MD-COLOMBIA FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: We're the only clinic in this community county, so it's about 20,000 people overall. BURD: All right. I tried to get him up, he just rolled himself out. And the owners of those pockets do not want anything to fundamentally change. Escape Fire premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, [1] opened in select theaters on October 5, 2012, and was simultaneously released on iTunes and Video-on-Demand. Compared to having your chest cut open? Heart cath, get another stent. Or at least we think we do. This suture costs about $200. that is going to raise cause. Our forefathers in medicine were really about patients. Her cholesterol was never well controlled, and her high blood pressure was never well controlled. DR. 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