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Listeners, Hello, and thank you for tuning in to a
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Sharp Outlook on pay for HD radio and talk or TV.
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I am Angela Sharp, Your host our arm chair discussions
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with industry experts will give you the steps, tools and
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information to be successful in business and to prepare you
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to be your best self. Hello, I'm Angela Sharp, and
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thank you for joining a Sharp Outlook. Today, we're going
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to talk about reimagining healthcare with a human element. In
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a world of rushed appointments, cold exam rooms, and endless paperwork,
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it's very easy for a patient to feel like they're
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just another number instead of a person. You feel like
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you're not being heard, understood, or the physician does not
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have a true concern for your health issues. Imagine that
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just following a pre subscribed treatment system generated by a
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computerized system. Today, we are going to sit down with
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Eric Ayers Heirs, I'm sorry, a teacher, storyteller, an advocate
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for human centered health care. How can we reimagine our
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lives and our health care through the lens of the
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human experience. I think that's really important for us to
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start thinking about a simple shift in conversation, curiosity and
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intention can transform the way we show up as patients, caregivers,
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and clinicians, just recognizing that we're just humans sitting there
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in the office and wanting to have a conversation about
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our health. We will discuss how reclaiming your story in
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the medical system, bringing humanity back into care and designing
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and life of service. If you've ever felt invisible in
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the healthcare system or stuck in a life that doesn't
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feel like yours, Today you will learn language, perspective, and
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practical ideas to begin rewriting your story, reimagining healthcare by
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bringing humanity, empathy, and storytelling back into the medical systems,
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helping people reimagine their own lives, often through reflection, values
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and purpose, and emphasizing human health elements, the emotional, relational,
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and personal parts of health that typical healthcare often overlooks.
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Eric teaches how to bridge system thinking his like his
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e MC squared structural approaches with deeply human, person centered
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perspectives aiming to change how we experience healthcare and how
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we live our lives within So what to do is
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challenge cold transactual medicine, advocate for relationship based care, and
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encourage clinicians and patients to build real human connection. In
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the exam room, I'd like to welcome Eric to the
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show right now, Eric.
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Please join me.
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Hello, Angelis Hi.
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How are you doing.
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I am well, I am well. Thank you so much
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for having me. This is awesome.
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You've been on the show a sharp outlook before. Just
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tell us a little about you and what you're working
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on right now.
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Yeah. So my background is nursing.
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I've been a nurse for twenty two years now, and
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I was the burned out nurse who fell into the
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trap of falling into the system, a system that is
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not built for us, but built for different outcomes that
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we may hit on and found myself without compassion, without empathy,
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and out of shape in every way possible, and had
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a few perspective shifts that challenged the way I saw
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the world and thought and it led me on this
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amazing road to a self discovery.
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But b how do we bring the human back.
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Into the system and how do we build systems with
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the human and the love it?
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And so that's that's kind of my fascination. That's what
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I bring to organizations.
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And it's almost like a resuscitation of the system and
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building it the way that it was supposed to do.
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Yeah, And that's really interesting to me, you know, because
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I have loved ones that have been in medical care
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and they've even told me that they feel like that.
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You know, they've talked to three or four doctors and
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nobody heard what they said. They've never they never dealt with,
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never even brought up what they went into the hospital.
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For or what they went to the doctor's office for.
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They just start looking at the screen and then just
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you know, rattling off things to do, and it's like, well,
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I've been doing all those things. You understand it's not working.
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You know, let me tell you what's going on in
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my life. And it's like, you know, they've got this
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little short time period that you can have that visit,
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and so next thing you know, you're just rushed out
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and you got to go, you have to go back
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because nothing was resolved or answered, and so that does
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feel it makes you feel like, you know, why am
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I here? I don't think I don't think you're addressing
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my health needs, so why am I here? And then
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we don't want to think the ugly thing like, Okay,
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so I have insurance, so you get to be paid,
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so that also gets paid, and then everything else gets paid.
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But I have not been affected in the positive manner
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that I should be effected. But I don't want to
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think like that.
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Yeah, and you brought up the outcome that is, you know,
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when a system is built for a specific outcome, the
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system tends to create that outcome and it works flawlessly
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because that's the way it's built.
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However, the intricate pieces in between.
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And you brought up a valuable point of not being heard.
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That's that's a that's an innate human need is to
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be seen, to be heard, and to be valued. And
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if technology is taking that away, then the technology isn't
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set up in a way that enhances humanity.
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It's set up for the system.
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So ultimately the question is how do we use technology
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for the sake of humanity instead of just for the
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sake of technology, and AI can actually bridge this gap
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and offer us more human to human time if we
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allow it to. And that's kind of the missing piece.
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Right yeah, because you know, I work with systems, so
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I know they're very cold, the very direct. Let's get
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from point A to point B and give you the
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results that you're looking for or explains why you didn't
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reach those results an event. I'm also a fractional CFO
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and director of finance, so I also know I'm looking
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for numbers at the bottom line.
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So I'm related. I mean, I can.
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Relate with that whole process and that system because you know,
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I've written software and I know what the goal is
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is to get to the bottom line, to hopefully provide
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information so they can make better decisions. But how do
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you put you know, humanity into something like that. It's
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something we never ever thought about, and it's not been
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something that we've been taught and trained in the technical field.
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We just need to get the numbers, that's all right,
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And so I know how you can fall into that trap.
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But you know, being a manager also, I made sure
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that there was interaction with the people that was preparing
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all of that stuff.
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And make an impact comfortable and things like that.
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And then even when the numbers didn't come out, I
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always tried to bring a positive spin to it, so
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that you know, everybody was a crush that they didn't
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meet their goals and objectives. Here's some other things that
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you can consider. Here's some other routes, you know, so
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I know we can think of something else. But when
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someone ask you what you do and how do you
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explain reimagining life and healthcare with human elements, you know,
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what do you say?
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Yeah, it's it's difficult because it's it depends on what
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journey and what position the person holds. But what came
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to mind as you were talking was we need to
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change the question. So like, ultimately, if I were to
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say what I do, I help people build sandboxes that
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welcome everyone to come in and offer their own five
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year old genius to bring that to the table. And
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what I mean by that is if we're asking the question,
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how do we maximize profit? How do we decrease patient
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time in an office in a hospital setting, and we're
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seeking these metrics, we're asking the wrong question because is
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what if we actually said how do we increase patient
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care and quality to such a degree that our efficiency
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and our effectiveness increases. And the byproduct then is increase profits,
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decrease patient stays, decrease negative patient outcomes, decrease avoidable costs
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such as clapses and cauties and.
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So on and so forth.
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So simply in switching the question to how do we
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empower our people to become the best versions that they
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possibly can be, that then there's nothing else that can
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happen but improve patient care. And that question is not
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being asked. And when we ask that question, we start
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with empathy. We say who are we actually solving for?
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And then what are we actually solving for?
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And then how do we do it?
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But we jump right into how and we bypass the
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humans and involved to run the necessary steps within the system.
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And when we do that, we take out humanity as
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a whole. And I bring in competency, like pure, true competency,
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because if we are competent in something, it means we
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no longer have to mentally think about it and our
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mind is now open to focus on the human in
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front of us. If I'm focused on how to do
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a skill, I do not have the emotional ability to
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provide what is needed for this person in front of me,
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because I'm still technically learning how to do a skill.
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And Joda spendsa says, we go from thinking to doing
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to be when I become this process. So as a nurse,
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if it's a skill that I'm required to do, if
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I know how to do it so well, my body
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knows how to do it so well, it's taking over
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and I'm now able to do this this autonomically and
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I can then be present and that little shift changes
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not only the care that I provide because I'm doing
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the procedure correctly, but it changes how it's received, and
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that reception, how we make people feel, shifts everything. And
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that is how we bring the human into this because
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it's the it's the person providing the task as well
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as the receiver, which is our customer, which is our client,
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which is the reason why we signed up for this
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in the first place, and.
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We have been leaving them out.
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Ever since graduating whatever health help school that we graduated from. Right,
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we've learned system thinking without the human involvement. So we've
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taken the human out of our human service industry.
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Yeah, yeah, imagine that it is supposed to be. Yeah,
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the human is supposed to be the biggest feature of
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the industry, and yet you know, you have people feeling
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like nobody even heard what I said. They just ran through,
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you know, a list and told me to just go
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back and do this again and again and again.
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And so that that's heartbreaking.
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And not only that, I think it probably affects their
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healing because they're they're they're feeling depressed, they're feeling down,
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they feel like, you know, nobody cares, and so that's
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not helping, you know, even helping the patient themselves. Was
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there a specific moment that made you realize that healthcare
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has lost something human about what they do and.
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I think you needed to do something about it.
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I think it was a culmination of many different micro
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moments that then.
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Created this micro or this macro shift.
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In me that I'm like, wait a minute, there's there's
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something going on. And then I start to doing research
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and I started paying attention. So as I've gone on
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this journey, human behavior has become very fascinating to me
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because how we act, how we behave is fascinating because
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it tells us what is driving our reality. And what
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I mean by that, you brought up something very crucial
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is when we do this, as we're currently doing it,
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we actually create a feeling of loneliness within the patient. Yes,
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loneliness is directly tied to survival mode, which is our
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fight flight or freeze. It is ran by cortisol, which
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is awesome when we need to outrun a bear, right,
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but it's not very good when we're just going day
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to day trying to figure out what to do because
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we're shutting off our analytical mind or we're Amigla hijacked
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here and we're feeding our body with negative hormones, and this.
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We cannot heal. My body cannot heal.
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When it's being chased by a tiger because chances are
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if I don't outrun this tiger, it's going to be
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the tiger's problem and not mine.
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So that's the way our bodies are set up for.
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So after paying attention to how people react and not