Leadership Masterclass: Fast Medical Care & Your Health

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Coming up on this episode of the
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise podcast.

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Medicine or healthcare
is extremely complicated.

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It really is.

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And certainly one of the things
that I learned in medical school

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was how complicated it is.

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And I only say that to say, you know,
You may think, okay, I have a cold.

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I know what a cold is.

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I'll just do A, B, and C
that I always do for colds.

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But that's not necessarily true.

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Welcome to the Healthy, Wealthy,
and Wise podcast with Dr.

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William T.

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Choctaw, MD, JD.

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This podcast will provide you with
tools and actionable information

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you can use to help live a more
healthy, wealthy, and wise life.

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It's powered by the over 50 years of
medical experience of this Yale University

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Medical School trained surgeon, who is
also a Western State Law School trained

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attorney, with executive experience being
a former mayor of Walnut, California,

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as well as the current chairman of the
nonprofit Servants Arms, and as president

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of Choctaw Medical Group, Incorporated.

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This is the Leadership Masterclass
Edition, already in progress.

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Robert Andrew Col.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Everyone.

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Going to have a scr, a scripture and
a prayer, and then we'll go right

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straight into our, our session for today.

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I read in Proverbs, uh, chapter
three verses five through 17.

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Trust in the Lord with all thine heart
and lean out into thine on understanding.

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Now all th always are knowledge him.

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He shall direct our past, you
know, wise and thine own eyes,

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pit a Lord and depart from evil.

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Let us go to the Lord in prayer.

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Father God Almighty, as we come before
your throne this morning, first of

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all, we just want to thank you, Father.

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Thank you for our lying down last
night, and our rising up this morning,

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and closing our right mind with
all our spiritual, physical, mental

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capacities functioning properly.

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Thank you, my Father, for bringing
us to this point in time, my Father.

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We pray now, my Father, that you
open our hearts, open our minds,

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so we can be able to receive what
you want us to receive, my Father.

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As we go about what to do, my Father, we
need we need fast medical care, my Father.

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Amen.

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Help us to listen intently, my
father, and take in what you want

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us to take in and then use it.

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But I want to also share with us,
so they too might know also, my

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father, what to do, my father.

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We ask this of you, we thank this
of you, in your daughter's name,

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Jesus Christ, holy name, amen.

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Dr.

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Sarkar?

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Thank you all very much for spending
your very valuable time with us on

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this beautiful Saturday morning.

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Um, and, uh, to our next,
uh, present edition of the,

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uh, Leadership Masterclass.

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Um, and the Masterclass is designed
for those individuals who are

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interested in learning much.

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Uh, but in addition to that, being
able to take this information

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and hopefully to help others.

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Uh, and so the whole idea is to inspire,
uh, to motivate, um, and to educate.

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Uh, our topic today is going to be when
you need fast medical care, what do

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you do when you need fast medical care?

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What do you do now?

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Some of you may say, well, that, that's
an unusual topic and maybe it is.

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But one of the things that I have learned
in my 50 years of medical practice,

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uh, before I retired, that it's not the
more complicated things that confuse us.

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A lot of times it's the real basic
everyday things that confuse us in

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terms of improving Our quality of care.

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So we're going to try to go down to
some basic levels and go over some basic

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information that most of you know, but
hopefully we'll be able to put it in a

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format that makes more sense and helps
you to not only help yourself, but

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maybe help someone else too, either in
your family or outside of your family.

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I believe life is about
being of service to others.

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I believe knowledge is power.

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I believe leaders can change the world.

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And one of the purpose of, of
individuals in a masterclass

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is that you're all leaders.

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And we all want to learn and to grow and
to get more knowledge, uh, so that we

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can be more beneficial, uh, to others.

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Now, I, it was interesting, I, uh,
that was a, an introduction about this

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class at one of the, uh, Sunday morning
services, and, and the pastor said,

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well, you know, the doctor talked, I
was gonna say, you know, uh, uh, this is

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just advice, or something to that effect.

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This is just advice, talk
to your regular doctor.

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And that's exactly what I'm saying.

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Thank you, Pastor Doc.

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You were right on the money.

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This is just, just education.

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This is not medical advice.

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This is not intended to be medical advice.

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You get your medical advice.

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from your health care provider, whoever
he or she may be, but again, but by

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having knowledge and information,
you can then have those levels of

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conversation with that health care
provider that in my judgment will

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improve your health care and improve
the health care of others around you.

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Um, and as I said, our, our, our
mission, if you will, uh, with these,

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with these series is to inform, mean
give you information, uh, to educate.

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I define education as receiving
information that changes behavior.

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Receiving information
that changes behavior.

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Uh, and then the third, um, uh, goal
is, uh, when you get this information

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that you do something with it, you
don't just go and sit down that

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you either tell somebody else.

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Uh, but you use it to help someone
else, that you pass it on, if you will.

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And again, um, in the words of
Pasadena, always follow your doctor's

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orders, and I, I agree with that 100%.

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And, and quite honestly, one of the
reasons for this, and this is an

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important point that I've learned.

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Medicine or healthcare
is extremely complicated.

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It really is, and certainly one of
the things that I learned in medical

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school was how complicated it is.

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And I only say that to say you may
think, okay, I have a cold, I know

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what a cold is, I'll just do A, B,
and C that I always do for colds,

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but that's not necessarily true.

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One, that you may have symptoms that
are really not a cold, maybe something

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else, uh, um, and that it is always
more complicated than you think.

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Um, and so my point is, um, just
always be humble, if you will, when,

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when you're dealing with healthcare
related issues, um, and always

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recognize the fact that, uh, you may
learn something that you do not know.

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And it's one of the reasons that if, if
patient A has a cold and patient B has

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a cold, that they may not be the same
in terms of how that cold affects them.

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And that's another reason why
we never want to oversimplify.

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Uh, health care and health care symptoms.

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So, obviously, if you have a, a, a
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that requires immediate care, the
most serious type of medical problem,

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uh, that requires immediate care is
something that's life threatening.

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or that you think is life threatening.

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Now, I'm a believer that, um,
patients or individuals do not

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have to try to play doctor.

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Uh, you don't have to run to the
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something if it's in an emergency, okay?

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Uh, just go to the emergency room.

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Just go to the emergency room.

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Um, if you aren't sure, if you're
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my patients that all the time.

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I say, if you're worried and
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go to the emergency room.

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That, that's number one, one
of the first things you can do.

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Uh, the second thing you can
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have them come and pick you up.

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Um, and I can tell you, we in Los
Angeles County are very blessed that

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we're, there's so many hospitals
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around, et cetera, et cetera.

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But if you live out in a rural
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with the John commission.

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We would many times survey hospitals
that were way out in rural areas.

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And many times those patients don't
have a close emergency room to go to.

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You know, if you're pregnant and you're
having a baby, uh, uh, you know, you

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have to go many times, uh, to be able
to So a lot of times healthcare is

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not always as available as it is to
us who are blessed to live too close

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to be surrounded by many hospitals.

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But if you can call 9 1 1, that
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They not only will come out and render
emergency medical care in your home

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or wherever you are, But they're
in constant communication with the

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hospital emergency room, uh, getting
information, reporting information

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about you as they're transporting
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Well, let's be more specific.

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What are some of the things that
you just want to think about?

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Just go to the emergency
room when they happen.

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If you start having respiratory
problems, respiratory meaning breathing,

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you have a difficulty breathing.

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Maybe you don't know why you're
sitting there all of a sudden.

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You're having difficulty
catching your breath.

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Um, and you sort of do some
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it starts to get worse.

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Breathing problems tend to be
particularly hard, or maybe there

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will be hard long types of problems.

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And those types of things, you
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calling 9 1 1 or have somebody
call 9 1 1 or have someone to

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take you into the emergency room.

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If you are one of those people who
likes to Fixed up and you get up on

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ladders and this and that and you
fall, you know, head injury is a very

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common problem, particularly with those
of us who are over 60 years of age.

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Now I know, I always have to say this,
I know a lot of new 60 year olds that

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are listening to me and you're saying
I'm 60 years old, I'm not old, uh, 60

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is the new 40, I understand all that.

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Uh, but my point is, uh, you
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of people, uh, patients who get
into trouble from head injury.

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Uh, doing basic things, coming downstairs.

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I'm missing a step.

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I've fallen myself.

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Many times I've missed a
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And so my point is, be careful with that.

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And if you hit your head, um, it does not
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Um, a lot of times you can hit your
head and just have a bruise internally

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within the head, but it gradually
gets bigger or more severe over time.

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So my point is that if someone has fallen
and hit their head, Regardless of who they

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are, but particularly if they are older,
you want to think about taking them into

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the emergency room just to be checked out.

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A lot of times people say,
I'm fine, I don't worry about

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it, I don't worry about it.

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But if they have any symptoms at
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concerned, take them in to be evaluated.

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If you cut yourself.

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Now all of us at one time or another
have probably cut ourselves or injured

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ourselves, and we bleed, the body again
is an amazing organ, uh, organism, huge,

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uh, organism itself, and it will heal,
although those, that bleeding immediately,

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however, if that laceration, that cut
is large, and or maybe you have taken a

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lot of aspirin or something else, On a
daily basis, aspirin many times decreases

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your ability to stop bleeding, uh, not
always, but it can in some patients, but

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my point is, if the bleeding doesn't stop,
you know, you put something on it and

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it's still bleeding, you wrap it up and
it's still bleeding, uh, then you, you,

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you want to go into the emergency room
and to have that looked after, uh, and

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have them to stop the bleeding, suture
the laceration, um, if need be, and,

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and make sure you get, uh, quality care.

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Um, if, if you, uh, are sick to your
stomach for whatever reason, and you're

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having, um, a lot of nausea and vomiting.

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Um, that you cannot stop.

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The same thing if you're having,
um, gastrointestinal problems

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and you're having a lot of
diarrhea that you cannot stop.

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Those are the types of things you want to
consider going into the emergency room.

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You don't want to try to self diagnose.

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Um, you want to go into
the emergency room.

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And the reason why you would go into
the emergency room instead of maybe

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like an urgent care or whatever,
uh, emergency rooms are equipped

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to do a lot of tests immediately.

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Um, and they can get a diagnosis
faster many times than an urgent

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care or a lower level of care.

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Thank you for listening to this
episode of the Healthy, Wealthy,

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and Wise podcast with Dr.

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William T.

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Choctaw.

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MDJD.

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We hope you now feel more equipped
with tools and actionable information

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that will help you live a more
healthy, which includes the

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mental, physical, and spiritual.

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Wealthy, which includes the
financial, health, and spiritual.

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And wise, which includes the
practical, theoretical, and emotional.

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Life for this one and past
podcast episodes, blog,

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books, and news, you can use.

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Go to www.thhwwp.com.

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That's www.thwwp.com, and you've got it.

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In the meantime, remember, you too, can be
the change you want to see in the world.

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You've been listening to the healthy
wealthy and wise podcast with dr.

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William t.

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