coming up now at 41 manipulates after the hour. time for an a.m. house call, story as about your health, piece nice and not speaking up can be hazardous to your health especially when you re at the doctor. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen learned first hand how important that it. she talked about it in the new book empowered patient. she s here. good morning. good morning. you and i both know that doctors sometimes get things wrong. hospitals sometimes get things wrong. it s just the way that it works. and sometimes, you have to take charge which can make people a little bit mad. but if you try to be a nice, good patient, that can hurt you. here s a story of something that happened to my mother. we bring you her story with the help of turner animation studios. a firecracker, mother of four, grandmother of 11, wife, lawyer and social worker, he s been active and healthy her whole life. but around the time she turned 60, something changed.
country. this has probably happened to a lot of you. you tell your doctor you don t feel well. the response is to slow down, get more rest, don t worry about it. that approach could cost you your life. joining me is elizabeth cohen. that seems extreme. sometimes you really do need to rest. but if you go to the doctor and you feel like something is really wrong with you and the doctor kid of blows it off and says take two aspirin, call me in the morning, you need to question that. we learned that in my family. with the help of turner animation studios, we bring you my mother s story. my mother, sheila schwartz, is a firecracker. mother of four, grandmother of 11, wife, lawyer and social worker, she s been active and healthy her whole life. but around the time she turned 60, something changed. she began feeling achy and dizzy. her blood pressure went up and she was so tired. my mom s family doctor told her don t worry about it. so they told you, look, lady, if you just stop working s
second of several lessons that could save lives. true. the lesson today is, what hospital you go to matters. there are hospitals that are good at some things and hospitals that are good at other things. so a hospital can save you or a hospital can kill you. so we have a tale of a gentleman i m glad to say he was saved because someone helped him get to the right hospital. now, with the help of turner animation studios we bring you his story. reporter: in california a mountain paradise, gorgeous skiing and loads of snowmobilers. an skiing down the slopes one morning, chuck stopped in at the local snowmobile center, and while inside, all of a sudden he fell down. draw a line down the center of my body and everything was just connect edisconnected on t right-hand side. reporter: chuck had a massive stroke in the middle of nowhere. a nurse raced him to the ep of
in fact, it s the title of her new book and a special cnn report this weekend, joins us with lessons to save lives and just the fact your book keeps getting printed more and more shows how much people really want to know how to do this. they do want to know, kyra, because they have learned that a hospital is not a hospital is not a hospital. there s differences between hospitals and you need to learn which to go to. i have a story of a man who likely would have died or become paralyzed if he d gone to the wrong hospital. with the help of turner animation studios, here s his story. fair valley, california, is a mountain paradise. gorgeous skiing and loads of snowmobilers. after skiing down the slopes one morning, chuck stopped in at the local snowmobile center. and while he was inside, all of a sudden, he fell down.
the today s lesson is that if you end up at the right hospital, it can save you. if you end up at the wrong hospital, it will kill you. we have an uplifting story of a man whom it worked out so well. we re going to tell you his story with the help of folks at the turner animation studios. here it is. fair valley, california, a mountain paradise. gorgeous skiing and loads of snowmobilers. after skiing down the slopes one morning, chuck stopped in at the local snowmobile center. and while he was inside, all of a sudden he fell down. just draw a line down the center of the body. everything disconnected on the right-hand side. chuck had a massive stroke in the middle of nowhere. kathy snider raced him to the edge of town to wait for a helicopter ambulance. i just remember the ro or thes turning and the snow