00:00I want to be super clear about who is talking to you right now.
00:04I am not a doctor.
00:07I am not a nurse.
00:09I am not a member in any way of the healthcare workforce that I love so dearly.
00:16I am an actor.
00:18I'm the son of a nurse who spent 50 years caring for other people.
00:23And I've spent decades trying to do justice to what she and the rest of you actually do.
00:28That is the only credential I am claiming today.
00:32And what I learned from this show and what is now in my bones is that medicine is hard enough,
00:37but so much of the damage is coming from everything around medicine.
00:42It is the prior auth that takes the surgery off the schedule.
00:46It is the staffing ratio that turns a manageable shift into a moral injury.
00:51It is the tuition bill from a decade ago that still dictates where you can live and what you can
00:57afford.
00:57It is the fear of telling the truth that could cost you your job.
01:01Welcome to every healthcare professional here and every healthcare professional watching.
01:08I know you do not need another speech about how important you are.
01:11You need backup.
01:14And this isn't about politics.
01:16Cancer is not partisan.
01:18A stroke is not partisan.
01:20A kid with a fever in the middle of the night is not partisan.
01:22The healthcare professional who shows up for that patient should not have to beg for basic support from a system
01:28that they hold together.
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