getting really sick, you know, it s gonna do its thing. how long have you been here? and don lemon is joining us now. don, this is such a powerful report that you have done there. and the regret that we re hearing from those patients. what was it like, this experience? it was sad and frustrating and it made me question how the messaging going out, quite frankly, from all of us, from the political leaders in washington, for us here in news media, and quite frankly, especially from the, you know, propaganda media on the right which doesn t often operate in facts and reality. that was the most frustrating part for me. i think that because of the attacks on our institutions in this country over the past five or six years or so, and attacks on journalism, people don t know
i m so proud of all of us that do it. i think we need to note that, one, those people can t muster that compassion, basically two things happen. we call it burn out. people work burnt out, angry maybe, or tired or exhausted, can t bring their full self to the patient the way they need to. or they leave. and i ve gotten a lot of emails from people who have left medicine in the last year and a half. i want to remind you that it takes 20 years to make a really good doctor and sometimes longer, and it only takes a little while for them to leave. and when they leave or they work burned out, neither of those is good for all of us. the huge loss, right, a huge loss in expertise, and it doesn t have to happen. and doctors need to be appreciated. i also think that s important. we re seeing people protest them and it makes absolutely no sense. doctor, thank you so much for being with us and for writing this. we appreciate it. thank you for having me. so, we re getting more on a breaking st
onto mitch, i think numbers saying this many people and that and this and this, these many people are dying. the numbers don t really convince people. what convinces people are the interviews like what i did. or, quite frankly, somebody in their family or themselves getting it. people have told me when we see people on television, when we see people saying i have it or a loved one has it, go get it, that can make a difference. just spouting statistics and numbers, it doesn t really break through. right. i think also what really resonates with people when you go into hospitals and you talk to the heros in the community, these are their neighbors who are putting themselves at risk trying to save these lives. when you talk to the nurses and the respiratory therapists and the e.r. docs and the environmental people who have been going into these literally burning buildings every day for
virus. my children got tested immediately. i m the only one that ended up with it. let me ask you. why didn t you get vaccinated? me myself, i thought that i was being safe, because i ve been quarantining since the beginning of the pandemic. the reason i didn t get vaccinated, my choice was i wanted to wait, let this first batch go through, you know, see how it worked. but before i got sick, i was thinking about getting vaccinated and i was speaking to my children about it. i didn t make it in time. i got sick before incompetent get vaccinated. being in the hospital is hard, but in some ways the conversation with her children is even harder. if mommy doesn t make it
front of your televisions at home and you judge people because they don t think the way you think or they don t have as much information or nom as you have. well, everyone doesn t do that. people are busy taking care of their families. everyone doesn t have means to have televisions all over their homes or sometimes to be able to pay to see cable news. so i came away with a really broadened and open and slightly different perspective about people who are not vaccinated. yes, i understand there is politics in it, but there are a whole lot of people out there where politics doesn t have anything to do with it. here s what i will say, though. i think that because of what happened over the last couple of years, the attacks on our institutions, the attacks on the first amendment, the attacks on journalism which is covered in the first amendment, that people wrongly don t know who to trust.