reSee.it Video Transcript AI Summary
Speaker 0 describes repeatedly witnessing what they say is deliberate killing and gross medical mismanagement of hospitalized COVID patients, saying “nobody will listen.” They compare the situation to Nazi Germany putting Jews into gas chambers, and say they are told “you can't save everybody” even though they insist the patients are “not dying from COVID.”
Speaker 0 gives multiple examples: an anesthesiologist intubated a patient incorrectly, with only one side of the chest inflating; after about five hours waiting for a chest X-ray, the patient died. A patient with a heart rate of 40 in a stable bradycardic rhythm received chest compressions by a resident, which Speaker 0 says was not appropriate; Speaker 0 ran in to stop him, but the resident then “pushed epi,” placed defibrillation pads, and defibrillated, and the patient died. Speaker 0 says they repeatedly tried to get the director of nursing to stop the actions, but the patient was still killed. They also describe nurses placing an NG tube into the lungs and filling lungs with tube feeding, and confusing long-acting insulin with short-acting insulin and giving 30 units of fast-acting insulin, which they say killed the patient. They claim patients are “just going to let them rot on the vent” and that blood transfusions are not provided even though, they say, COVID patients “all eventually need a blood transfusion,” because vent settings do not work without adequate oxygen-carrying capacity.
Speaker 0 describes staffing and procedural failures: a nurse reportedly fell asleep and norepinephrine ran out while a patient had no blood pressure and was not perfusing the brain; Speaker 0 says the same nurse is now running a CRRT machine “that she has never done before.” They say nurses were not swapped even though a nurse who knows the machine could handle it, and they predict the patient will die soon. They also say some patients are on only sedation or not truly treated for COVID, including a woman on a trank (tracheal vent-related mention) who is not “even cognizant,” and who only receives breathing treatments (albuterol) and insulin.
They describe a cycle of vent and sedation management: day shift weans sedation to minimum, but at night the same residents increase sedation again, undoing day shift work; day shift attending rounds and says synchronization problems required turning sedation up, while Speaker 0 says the issue is the event mode being wrong. Speaker 0 says attempts to contact advocacy groups were unsuccessful, and they feel out of ideas.
Speaker 0 further claims patients are not properly assessed: they say nobody listens to lungs, even with disposable stethoscopes, and that they have seen patients already in body bags with no knowledge of how long they had been dead. They say they were told a patient was acidotic and should be treated, but instead the patient’s condition was allowed to worsen, kidneys shut down, and then bicarb was run late; Speaker 0 says the patient became overloaded with fluid, developed heart failure, and died. They also describe witnessing procedures resulting in death, including an ET tube placed incorrectly causing choking on blood, and a central line complication where a doctor allegedly ruptured a subclavian vein and the patient bled to death.
Speaker 1 and Speaker 0 discuss that Speaker 1 is also “not a doctor,” while Speaker 0 maintains that actions like defibrillating a patient with a heart rate of 40 in a stable rhythm constitute “murder.” Speaker 1 adds that “nobody cares” and makes comments about “minorities” and “the hood.” Speaker 0 says a prior lead who advocated for patients was moved to a different hospital and had warned Speaker 0 there would be problems. Speaker 0 ends by saying they will go back to the unit and “see how they kill him there,” urging people to stay safe and “stay out of NYC for your health care.”