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"It's amazing to see how the trajectory of the care being provided to the patient changes once they know that you have a professional advocacy service on board. They start changing everything."
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This is my second interview with Kimberly Overton. In our first interview, Overton talked about the horrifying events she witnessed as a critical care nurse during Covid in a hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee. All except two of the hundreds of Covid patients she witnessed being put on ventilators died. Nonetheless, the treatment protocols remained unchanged.
To this day, ventilators and Remdesivir are protected as medical countermeasures under the PREP Act that was declared for Covid-19 (and ends only in December 2029).
Overton quit her job in protest against the hospital killings and founded the organization "The Nurse Freedom Network" in the summer of 2021.
Later, in 2022, she founded Remnant Healthcare, a private membership association that provides nursing and also patient advocacy services. According to its website, its mission is to "provide compassionate, patient-centered healthcare services using holistic modalities and a root cause approach."
Patient advocacy services is what we are talking about in our second interview: What are they? Why are they needed? And why is it that everyone should have an advocacy plan in place well before setting foot into a hospital?
CHAPTERS
02:54 Hospital Consent Forms and Signing Away Rights
05:39 How Patients Lose Control of Their Own Treatment
10:52 The Shift Toward Profit-Driven Healthcare
13:13 The Rise of Electronic Health Records
14:00 The Forgotten Patient Bill of Rights
15:00 The Insurance Lie Nurses Were Told to Tell
16:52 The Right to Refuse Treatment
18:08 Doctor Google and Patient Gaslighting
21:14 Informed Consent and the COVID Vaccine Rollout
23:24 Polypharmacy and Alarm Fatigue
25:56 Refusing Daily Blood Draws
28:57 Defining Patient Advocates and Advocacy Plans
31:42 How Remote and In-Person Advocacy Works
33:00 Adding an Advocate to Your HIPAA Form
34:01 Why Hospitals Change Behavior With an Advocate Present
36:21 Directed Blood Donation and Post-COVID Pushback
40:24 Concrete Examples of Advocacy Changing Outcomes
42:12 Building Ongoing Relationships With Hospitals
44:14 Advocates as Allies to Nurses and Doctors
46:27 Planning an Advocacy Strategy in Advance
46:56 Membership Costs and Planning Session Details
52:17 Preparing for Planned Hospital Visits
54:06 Listening in on Appointments as an Advocate
56:19 What Makes a Good Advocate
57:40 Bringing a Holistic Perspective Into Hospital Care
59:41 The PREP Act and Loss of Patient Recourse
1:03:47 Remdesivir's Continued Protection Under the PREP Act
1:04:03 Finding and Vetting Advocacy Services
1:06:53 Pricing, Value, and Avoiding Price Gouging
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