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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital | Eric Manheimer

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I didn‘t make it before the Season 2 premier, but still made it. This book in no way prepared me for the Season 2 premier of New Amsterdam. I did not find out who lived or died in that ambulance crash until I watched the show tonight. I will forever be haunted by “it‘s always my turn” and Max saying the days, “they‘re all long.”
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GingerAntics This book is absolutely amazing on its own. I can see how it inspired New Amsterdam and why some amazing people wanted to turn it into a TV show. There are a lot of very important things in this book that we all need to hear in America. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 5y

GingerAntics This is a brilliant look into the American health care system, how we‘re all interconnected, reminders to keep a hold of our humanity, and the important message that children/the poor/immigrants/prisoners/doctors and nurses are people, too. #DrEricManheimer #TwelvePatients #NewAmsterdam #DamFam 5y

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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital | Eric Manheimer

Not surprising in the least.
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I‘m trying to finish this before the New Amsterdam premiere on Tuesday night, but I‘m not sure I‘m going to make it.

Branwen I've been having TONS of healthcare related problems as of late, and until then I never realized how shitty this country's healthcare is. It's very disheartening, to say the least. 😞 5y

GingerAntics @Branwen that seems to be how it goes. You don‘t really need it until you need it, but then it‘s not there for you. I can‘t help but think if, as a country, we chose to value good health for all, how much cheaper things could be because everything would be check ups and preventative care and much less emergency care. 5y

Branwen @GingerAntics Yes, I absolutely agree. The prices for healthcare plans, if you're not getting coverage through the company you work for (and sometimes even if you are!), are outrageous. 5y

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GingerAntics @Branwen absolutely. Life saving meds are unattainable for most families. We‘ve got people in their 20‘s rationing insulin. If you look at our health care, the way we treat our sick, I don‘t understand how we can dare say this is the greatest country on earth. Every other first world nation takes care of their sick. 5y

Branwen @GingerAntics Yes, so true! It's very frustrating to think about. I just don't understand why we can't do right by our people. Especially when, as you said, the other first world nations get the job done. 5y

GingerAntics @Branwen I even found out that after WWII all of those first world nations were so grateful they all offered to put every American citizen forever on their systems and American lawmakers said, “no thanks, we can do better.” If this is better, I think I‘m using that word differently than they are. 5y

Branwen @GingerAntics ARE YOU SERIOUS?! Goddamn that makes me want to throw up. This country is such a joke sometimes. 😥 5y

GingerAntics @Branwen that was my reaction, too! Sadly, yeah I‘m totally serious. 5y

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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital | Eric Manheimer

5 more patients to read about before Tuesday.
#DrEricManheimer #TwelvePatients #NewAmsterdam #DamFam

Crazeedi This was a good book 5y

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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital | Eric Manheimer

I think people are shocked by the number of highly skilled immigrants (legal or not) who come here and can‘t work in the fields they‘re trained in. I firmly believe they should be able to show their credential or be able to call the school and then just take the licensing exam here. It‘s amazing the number of immigrant students I work with at work that are getting a second degree because their old credentials just don‘t count for some reason.

GingerAntics #DrEricManheimer #TwelvePatients #NewAmsterdam #DamFam #immigrants #education #credentials 5y

Gezemice Yeah, nuts. What a waste of talent and education. (edited) 5y

GingerAntics @Gezemice agreed. Especially when you think of how much their families sacrificed in order for them to be able to go the first time. 5y

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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital | Eric Manheimer

Dear America,
Please remember this, too. Please don‘t lose your humanity. You are better than this, America. We are better than this.
#DrEricManheimer #TwelvePatients #NewAmsterdam #DamFam #America #priorities #humanity

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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital | Eric Manheimer

Dear America,
Please remember this. It‘s really important. As Manheimer says, our humanity is at stake.
#DrEricManheimer #TwelvePatients #NewAmsterdam #DamFam #humanity #medicine #medicalcare

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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital | Eric Manheimer

It‘s hard to imagine what life is like for average, everyday Mexican citizens. I don‘t think, as Americans, we have considered how NAFTA hurt Mexican farmers or how life as it is now, in Mexico is a type of prison people find themselves in when they only thing they ever did was be born. This was a stunning, beautiful, eye opening passage. This explains why Trump‘s plan will NEVER work.

GingerAntics I think it also shows why Trump‘s claim that NAFTA hurts American farmers is an absolute slap in the face to the farmers of our trade partners in North America. #thismanhasgottogo 5y

GingerAntics #DrEricManheimer #TwelvePatients #NewAmsterdam #DamFam 5y

Butterfinger That last sentence you highlighted hits it square on the head. US is only hurting ourselves. 5y

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GingerAntics @Butterfinger but we‘re not. We‘re hurting Mexican citizens that are just trying to survive now because of our policies. It‘s hard to post the entire thing because it‘s like a page and a half, but it is so powerful and it shows just how interdependent we all are. (edited) 5y

Butterfinger @GingerAntics in the long run, all we are doing is breeding hate. We won't have anyone to have as trade partners. Your quote was how the man's business was slowly being ruined because of economy because of us. Shutting our borders will hurt us too. 5y

Butterfinger I should not have used the word "only". I did that without thinking. It hurts all. Not just us. Forgive me. 5y

GingerAntics @Butterfinger I get your point. We‘re doing a lot of damage and we don‘t care. Some how people don‘t see the damage being done to our children and those who don‘t have any power. I think that‘s the hardest to accept. The hate is just disturbing. There is just so much hate. 5y

Scochrane26 1) I just spent the weekend in pigeon forge, TN & saw several stores selling trump merch. I realized that I‘ve never seen presidential merch like that for any other pres. 2) I work w/ a lot of kids whose parents are undocumented, & it‘s very sad & frustrating when their anxiety goes up because they‘re worried about deportations & who they‘re going to live with. I shouldn‘t have elementary kids in therapy with those kind of worries. 5y

Scochrane26 3) this passage explains a lot about why people risk being undocumented. They may not make much in U.S. but at least they have jobs. 5y

GingerAntics @Scochrane26 I completely agree with you on every point. His merch and how it‘s sold is so weird and his effect on even small children is proof of how inhumane and unpresidential he is. This book is in no way about immigration, but it makes wonderful points about it. This book was written in 2012, but I think it‘s safe to say Manheimer did NOT vote for Trump. 5y

GingerAntics @Scochrane26 I wish I could post a while page or two. This guy actually mentions how NAFTA put most Mexican farmers out of business because it prevented them from competing with American farmers. It makes the whole BS about how American farmers are being hurt by NAFTA so we need something new he‘s going to rescue farmers with just more proof that Trump has no idea what he‘s talking about. 5y

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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital | Eric Manheimer