April 8, 2026 ⢠28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I learned something yesterday that I had no idea existed.
At first, I didn't get it, but I think I
do get it now.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I don't think I could watch it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't think i'd want it when I say want
to watch it, not like it would be boring.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I just I'm afraid of what I would see. Okay,
So there is a whole part of the world that
watches people.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So you go to the doctor right for whatever reason,
and they run tests and those tests could be anything
from blood.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Work to biopsies.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And when people get their results back, they videotape themselves
opening up their portal and reading the results.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Sounds like unboxing for their medical records. An unboxing video.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, yeah, exactly, exactly, you.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Know what is in the box.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Sometimes they compared it to people who are like when
people were doing like college admission videos, where it was like, oh,
let's see if I got in or not, like I
applied to Clemson and.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Or I applied to Clemson. Yeah, either way, I didn't
know that was the thing. Oh yeah, college admission.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I don't know if it's as big as it was,
but that was a pretty big thing for a while.
So now it's people who will who will go outside
and well, they'll go anywhere. They'll sit at a table,
they'll go outside and sit in a backyard, like.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Whatever background they want.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And the videos generally pick up with them saying, I
just I just got the results for my fill in
the blank in my portal.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm gonna click on it and I'm just going to
read the results. And they do.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
And these are live streams.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A lot of them are recorded and they just posted.
Some of them are live streams.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Some of them they'll record themselves and post them.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Is the aim well, obviously the aim is to be
healthy and have the result you want. But if it
is not the result you're hoping to see, do you
then have this built in community that in the common
section can build you up.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And that's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Like that's where I was like at first, I didn't
get it. I was like, why would you want to
do that?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The same not and not not.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
For like medical privacy reasons, like who cares the I mean,
it's your stuff. You want to say what it is,
that's your own hippa the But I was like, why
would you want to do that? But they go back
and they talk about hey, Kristen, will you see if
anybody's watched these? Will you find me somebody who's watched
(02:57):
these or done one?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
What's the hashtag?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You know what? I don't know the answer to that.
I don't hashtag benind I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But I'm just like, if we're trying to search this
review medical Reveal, Medical Reveals, just write that, Yeah, okay,
this video picked up.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh, Kristen, will you see if you can find me
somebody that's watched a video. If you can find me
somebody that's made the video, that'd be amazing eight six
six to Elliott eight six six two three five five
four six eight. And these things are running up views
like crazy. But you see what I mean, Like there's
a whole part of.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Like the Internet world that is obsessed with these.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I see here in an article about it's some embedded examples.
There's one where the person's very excited.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Great.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
There's another where it looks like the video cuts off
before you even see the result, but the person is
so nervous. It makes me uncomfortable to see that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay, but you don't know what it's what it was for.
It could be for something.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I think it's the medical results.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
No, no, I know that, but you don't know what
she's getting ready to learn.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
This video starts. I just need to click view results.
But I'm starting to feel a little sick to my stomach.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
No evidence of localized disease recurrence or mestastic disease in
my abdomen or pelvis.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, it is serious stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yes, well, it's just I'm trying to say. Some of
them are just blood tests.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Some of them, like there was one that was like, girl,
I wish I had that A one C.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Most recently, I could have done my test to see
if I had white coat syndrome, but I didn't even
want to bring it up after you read that last one.
And yes, Sarah, I have white coat syndrome.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh he's afraid of doctors.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, you get scared when you go to the doctors.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I don't, but it's not an outward emotion.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know. They tested your heart that's that your
heart rate spikes.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I had to know my blood pressure the same thing.
I had to buy a commoditor, yeah, to check for
about four three four weeks after my physical so I
could bring in my log and then also bring in
my machine and check it and see if in the
(05:32):
presence of a doctor, my body, unbeknownst to me, just
is anxious and it is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is around doctors.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Every time I go in for a physical the month before,
I have to start logging my blood pressure again.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Gotcha?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But do you see this woman? This is what I'm
talking about. I don't want to watch this.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I told you I don't know if I a mess.
Well you don't. I don't know what results she's waiting on, but.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You see it's clearly is stressed.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, no, I'm saying, but I don't know if she
is waiting to find out. I mean, this's gonna sound bad.
I don't know if she's waiting to find out.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
If she has cancer or if I'm waiting to find
out if she has high A one c's.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
She's way too upset for this to be something minor.
She's freaking out, wringing her hands. Look at her. Her
brow is all frowned, whatever furrowed.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
These videos are the unintended result of a law passed
in twenty sixteen which mandated that providers give participant or
patients rather full access to the entirety of their medical
records as quickly as possible. The law went into effect
in twenty twenty one, and ever since, raw test results
have arrived on screens the instant.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They're processed by the labs.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Gone are the days of having a live conversation to
get the results. So people are getting the results, and
then that community of people, and I'm telling you, it's
everything from oh, I mean this, it's horrible, I had
that type of cancer, I had this type of cancer,
to I wasn't kidding. There was somebody who's like, girl,
(07:13):
love your A one c's or like, oh good blood pressure, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I mean, it's all kinds of stuff. But that's their
only community of either support or celebration.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
You know what, when I think back to that November
December blood pressure issue, put that aside. You have to
my doctor, you have to get the blood test ahead
of time, right, And it was because historically you discussed
the results with the doctor. When I went in this
past November, and I understand you mentioned a few years ago,
(07:46):
this long past, they asked me, so, did you already
look on the portal for your blood panel results? And
I said no, And they were surprised they have yet. Yeah,
why wouldn't you because I don't know how to interpret
at all.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's what the internet's for.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You don't have my good God, you don't want me
typing in symptoms and all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You don't have to.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It'll tell you on there, like it'll give you your number, yes,
and then it'll say, this is enormous.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well you baally do this. I've done it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You don't wait to interact and hear the interpretation of
the doctor.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Remember I only I don't get it done ahead of time,
So I'll do it afterwards, and I'll read through it
and if.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
There's anything, I text them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
But it'll say like this is lower, this is high,
and then there's usually a descriptor underneath it that says
normal ranges between sixty seven and seventy. And then you're like, well,
I'm sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I guess I'm good.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So is the doctor in my case my internet audience. Yes,
I'm finding out in front of her.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And it's almost like I don't want to learn by myself.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, because nobody's there with you.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Just be told I didn't even know that they posted them,
and I told you that it was shocking that my
doctor's office even was allowed to put medical records online
because they told me when I first joined the practice
that they would never pass any sort of clearance because
it's a little bit backwards.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No, I mean every I mean it's in your portal.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I checked, Well now it is.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, I have to go to a doctor today.
I'll find out what the portal is. If I have
stitches in here tomorrow. Just pretend you don't see them.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The stitches are a big bandage over stitches.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It could be either one. Oh yes, yes, just pretend
you don't see it.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'll have Casey take a picture. Make sure that's sunlight blind. No, no,
I want it spotlighting it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Where am I going? Line one? Hi Ellie in the morning? Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I was just calling in because when you were talking
about this, it honestly reminded me of everybody doing like
their pregnancy test.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh that's another good one. That's another good one.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yes, yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Because I like will see them all the time and
I'm like, oh my god, they're pregnant or you know, well,
yeah that's.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
All I gotcha. I agree it happy?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You know this seems to me like half the time
these tests are probably bad news.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I mean if you go on odds, probably.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
But as a year you're willing to say it's be
fifty to fifty. But I want to tune in, yes,
because you're hoping for it to be good, or you
also find some pleasure again their pain.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I could not watch these. But I think it's people
that are either a going to be a very comforting person,
like I don't think somebody's going to post on there,
Oh I got my six month scan, guess what's back.
(10:57):
I don't think there's somebody waiting to go serves your
write a like. I don't think there's that. I think
it's people who are being very like. It does say
a potentially quite lonely experience is transformed into a communal one.
The individual is no longer alone with the screen and
the data. They're in a community with people all over
(11:19):
the world who chime in with comments celebrating good news
or lamenting the bad, or worrying ambiguous, worryingly ambiguous.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Your blood work is amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
That was a comment.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I was like, girl, you're a one C. But then
it could also be like, hey, you know, it could
be it could be a it could just be an
internet hug. But remember like this woman who we have
no idea what she's wringing her hands about in the
whole thing, but she's she's checking the answers in the
(11:58):
backyard while you see her dog running around by the fence.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, she's at home, that's my point. There's nobody if
she if she's getting if she's getting bad news, she's
not sitting with her doctor who can wrap his arms
around her and give her a hug.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So is this with a doctor or is this somebody
looking at their results in the portal?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
What do you mean? So no, no, like that. That
woman's at home, just looking at the portal.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Right, So my doctor isn't gonna let the videotape me
watching him, Well.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You can just videotape yourself as the doctor is. Hey,
hey Elliott, you need to have search.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
If I were a doctor, I would never allow for
that two party state. I would never well, no, no,
I would. If I were a doctor, I would never
allow for that. I would never allow for that.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Is there a face to this trend? Is there someone
who's been going through a lot of treatment of an
illness that has a lot of updating. So this person has, oh,
I don't know, kind of become the most famous to
be doing the.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Kid Kardashian of medical reveals, well.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Like Olivium as Olivia mon came out with saying she
had breast cancer and was very vocal and like shared
the journey that kind of thing, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
On Good Morning America, not in her backyard with let's
click the portal.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But I bet a lot of these stories do start
with just you being intimate on Instagram or TikTok and saying, okay,
well I just want update you. I got the news
today my test results were positive and I have breast cancer.
That it didn't start with her going on good I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I don't know. I couldn't watch them. I couldn't see
somebody get bad news. I only like good news.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, this isn't for me either, definitely not.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I just also then, but people are getting millions of views,
millions of.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Views, which are they like, No, no, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Not the Paul brothers who are out there doing it.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Are they making money to help with their medical bills?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh? So I got my results written voke and then
it goes back. No, I'm not putting ads in there.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Because then I'd be concerned that that's for Big Lou.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
He's got he's got cancer too.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
People lying absolutely and saying I have to pay for
the surgery.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I can't believe.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I remember I just did it with some cats and
then my dad got in trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Where are you going? Kristen lined four? Hi Elliott in
the morning.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
Hey is this me?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah? Hi?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Who's that?
Speaker 8 (14:38):
This is Janet from Charlotte Stille. How are you?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'm doing great, Janet? What can I do for you?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
I was just going to share. So I'm a cancer
survivor and I have to go get regular tests, right,
And to what you were saying, like about the immediate results,
they actually have a choice. The organism, the hospital or
the test the center can allow you to have your
results instantly, or they can say you have to wait
(15:05):
to see the doctor. And so like I go to UVA,
and I go to Martha Jefferson and Charlotte czviel I
Cancer Treatments Sure, and UVA has theirs turned off, so
I don't get mine instantly, which I you know, I
don't know how I feel about it because I go
get a statis scan like every three months, right, and
there's a lot of anxiety that goes with that. Of
course you want to know the results. But at the
(15:26):
same time, I'm not really educated enough to read that report,
and I could misread it. So sometimes I really do
like the fact that UVA says you can't see it immediately,
but Martha Jefferson, I see it immediately, and it can
be really anxiety producing because you just don't know what.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh, listen, if I in in, if given an option,
if I don't mean like the option that you have.
But if I had to vote on whether to have
it go immediately to your portal or it comes from
your doctor, I would vote all day.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I'd rather good news, bad news. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
News, Go tell me my blood work is fantastic, tell
me I'm getting stitches. I'd much rather do it talking
to my doctor. So if I had to vote, I
would have voted the law that way. But because I
know it's in the portal, I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Just gonna go.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Look, you can't help yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
The Yeah, what is that? What did they call that?
The forbidden fruit? No, I don't know, Well, you know,
what I mean. But yeah, no, it's like.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
The app, like immediately when the result comes.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
In, Yeah, you get a notification and all of a sudden,
it's like you got results. I'm like, hot, damn, let
me set up a computer right right.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Yeah, it's it's really compelling because you want to know,
you know, but at the same time you're going to
be reading that result and not have the context.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
No well not having the not have the context, but
and also not have any contact like if it is
you know, and by the way, it could be great news,
it could be Listen.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Nothing makes me happier than to hear that that that
your your scans come out great and your survivor and
you're doing well. But I would imagine if it's what
you say, it's every three months, that first time that
you know, after you went through and you rang the
bell and you did all of that, the first time
you had to go in for three months and you
took that scan and your notification popped up and it
came back that you're clear.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I bet the first thing.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You wanted was to just hug somebody because you were happy,
not because you were sad or scared, but just because
you were happy.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And what are you gonna do hug the kitchen table.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Well, my story doesn't work out that way. I actually
my first scan after my surgeries and my chemo came
back to the cancer had come back and spread.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Okay, can't you.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Just play along?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I was.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Elliott, No, but I was trying to make a point
and not like, oh I got you got cancer.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
I got that kind of the situation, you know, like
you know, in my case, I was like I was
going in expecting I'm done, I'm free. You know, I'm
going to be in a good spot. And I go
in and I say, no, it's spread them on liver.
And that was oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
She didn't film this.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
But.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
It all turned out fine and I was good. But
like when I read that, like immediately, you know, it
was a real real bummer. It was obviously really depressing.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You probably still wanted to probably more than ever.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
I have to be honest, right right, right, all.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right, hold on, let me get you a hoodie, Let
me get.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
You You're so sweet.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
No, I'm just uncomfortable, all right, Hold on one second,
hold on one second?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
All right?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Was she helping or hurting?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Just play along?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Like please, you're telling of the story.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Well, I think I.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Did a really nice job telling the story, but then
she kind of came in and like messed.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Up the end.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
It was a plot twist.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But they should also be like, if you're going to
do it, like, let's make it fun. Like good news,
I get like the Loons and everything bad news, I
get the sound effect of John Wayne.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
So and I know you were a huge fan of
gender reveals.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I hated gender reveals.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Is this one day gonna be that yes like where
people have yes?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I mean it's going to grow into that.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Have the the moment learned when they cut into a
cake probably instead of just a flipped up laptop screen.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Hey you have cancer.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
No, no, we don't. You don't have to say it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You don't have to say it. I've got to have
a cancer. I have it built right into the app.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's one of those cards, the no.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Why wouldn't it, Why wouldn't it?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You're right, you're right. Everyone's got to take it to
that next level.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Well, but the gender reveal, it's only good news.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Not if you want a boy or girl and don't
find out. We've seen those clips where like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We're the one of the parents get pissed.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, that's normally like when they kick the thing over
and it starts a brushfire, like.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You cut open the cake and they're like, oh, never mind,
it was a false positive, you're not pregnant.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Or how about when like the grandmother makes it all
about herself?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Where am I going?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Are we supposed to wait to pull the little string
on the confetti? I'm so sorry?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Hi elliot in the morning.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's this John?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yes? John? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I've had kidney cancer and or flatter cancer out of
lung cancer. I get news on my portal. I have
to go in for CT scans like every three months.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And do you get the results from your doctor or
do you get them on the portal?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I get them on the portal.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Do you like that or would you rather it be
delivered by your doctor?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Um, it's fine getting him on the portal. I know quicker.
If there's something that needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Based on what you told me, there's a lot. Hey,
what is the but can I can I ask you this?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Honestly?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Like I understand that you get them, you get the
results quicker, right, I do understand that, And it's immediately. Listen,
I would vote to not make it an option, but
I still do it. I look at it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
But what even if you get if you get bad news,
Let's say you get it, you know, ten days earlier.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Man, that's a long time. A week earlier, and you
find out that something is bad. If it's bad, you
know the doctor's calling you soon. Anyway, It's not like
you got to get the results and then call and
schedule an appointment if you've got some really bad news
in there. So does getting it that much faster? I mean, honestly,
does it make that much of a difference.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
The answer is no, Well, you do get by getting
your results quicker. You can go ahead, send a message
to your doctor and go ahead and say, yeah, I'd
come in any time here. Because when I found my lung,
it was like a small legion, and all of a
(22:00):
sudden it increased in its size. So I said, all right,
I guess I need to get an appointment scheduled, and
got one within like two or three days.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, and that's great, that's great, right, Like I am
happy to hear that. So I guess there is in
your case, there was a was a benefit.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You sound like you're doing pretty good now?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Oh yeah, I'm doing great, except why I have to
go in for another pistoscophy here in a month.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
What's a fistosco cystoscopy? You know what that is?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Wait? What is that? What is that?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Do you want to tell him? Or do you want
me to tell him?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I'll tell him. Go ahead, Well, you know what a
colonoscopy is?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah? Oh, they they ain't going in through your wang.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Yes, they are.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Ding jeopardy.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Hey did they numb that thing? Do they numb it?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Well? A lot of times they'll do it as an
office visit and they just take a Q tip with
light a cane and try to numb you out. It
don't work. I'm sorry, but I am a real py
when it comes to that. I get them to knock
(23:13):
me out. If they're gonna knock me out for a colonosity,
they're gonna knock me out going off my wine.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Hey, no, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I'm a big pussy. I'd be a big pussy about
it too, dude. I am right there with you, right
there with you. Hey, blacker, camo, what what kind of
hoodie do you want?
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I'll do a camo.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Good idea. Good idea. All right, hold on one second.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Oh my god, you've definitely had this.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I blocked that out. I blocked that out.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I'm not surprised. One day you'll probably need one.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I doubt it. Why would you?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Why would he need one?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
What do you get him for as you get old,
any sort of cancer, bladder cancer.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Maybe he's never gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
He's gonna get cancer. Why I don't Plenty of smokers
don't get cancer. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Maybe the weighing is not necessary. Your words not mine. Uh,
for the lungs.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
The no, but you'd be fine. You don't necessarily have
to get that. I am not getting that. Hi, Elliot
in the morning.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Hey, good morning, this is me.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, Hi, real quickly, what can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Yeah, Ellie. I'm thinking that the reason why people go
to the portals and announce their results is because they're
missing that human touch that doctors tell me they're.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Absolutely right, and that's what they believe.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Started this is that when when people are getting those
results being good, bad, indifferent, It is all stemming from
it's on your portal and you're opening them literally sitting
at your kitchen table by yourself or on the couch
by yourself, or you're not surrounded by you know, a
doctor or some nurses or anybody in the office. You're
(24:58):
sitting there by yourself. And so at least that way,
there's an online community who can either you know, give
you praise hands or or you know, one hundred well,
you know whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But you're exactly right. You're exactly right. Thank you, Yes, Tyler.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Two things. Yes, there's a d M saying you're gonna
need one of those for your stone.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
No, for a kidney stone.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Don't you have one they detected?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, yes, but it hasn't moved, but they can tell
that it's it called.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
They get to dump that.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Cisoscopy, sistoscopy.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I'll tell you what if I have to get it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You know, how did they find my How did they
find my kidney stone? I got the locker exam.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
So who do you want?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Locker?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Minister locker? And then from Bruce, why.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Puts the biscuit in the basket? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Oh you know what? And then I'll just be there
with Joe b sound effects. Oh it's intended. And then
Bruce writ's on X. A lot of states delayed patient
access to results to avoid risk of patient self harm. Yeah,
I can see that.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Wait, say that again, Say that again.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
A lot of states delayed patient access to results to
avoid risk of patient self harm.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
If you get very very bad news, you freak out.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
And so they do something.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But if they're delaying that, okay, But what is delaying
access have to do?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Like until after you talk to your doctor.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
This was an argument for not posting things online.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
So come and sit down so I can tell you you.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Got Oh so they delayed it until after you talk
to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, no, I listen. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I'm all for you not being able to find out
from anybody but your doctor or nurse in the office.
Some medical person should be the one who tells you
good news or bad.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
News and his verse riots. What if it was a
misunderstanding of the information.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh, like I read it wrong or I just don't
understand it. Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But I think they had to start doing this because
doctor's time of telling you, hey, by the way, your
results are negative, you had to have an appointment to
do that. Doctor's time could probably be used elsewhere for
something that's just like, hey, you're all good.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Pre portal like pre as much access to portals as
there is now.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
So maybe it was during an overlap where it was
some that had it or not.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Wouldn't the office say we'll call you with the results
and that you would either.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Get the.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Hey its elliot, I'm in doctor Gupta's office.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Just want to let you know all the results are good.
Thank you, you know, have a good day, or you
would get hey it elliot, doctor Gupta's office.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Why don't you give us a call back? Just got
your results? Why don't you give us a call back?
Talk to you soon, hurry.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
And then that's why I always say note to voicemails
and certainly don't call.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Lindsay no, no, but you know what I mean, like, yes,
I do understand that takes time.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
But if you're concerned, is that there's going to be
a patient that's.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Going to harm themselves misunderstanding like a lot of that,
A lot of the medical mumbo jumbo, I don't get.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I think Bruce brought up a great point, and I
don't even think it was for a sweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The no, but I give him one. I'd give him one.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
I'm uncomfortable That was Summer's favorite exchange of the show. Today,
call her You're so sweet, Elliott, No, I'm just uncomfortable.
So I learned something yesterday that I had no idea existed.
At first, I didn't get it, but I think I
do get it now.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I don't think I could watch it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't think i'd want it when I say want
to watch it, not like it would be boring.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I just I'm afraid of what I would see. Okay,
So there is a whole part of the world that
watches people.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So you go to the doctor right for whatever reason,
and they run tests and those tests could be anything
from blood.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Work to biopsies.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And when people get their results back, they videotape themselves
opening up their portal and reading the results.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Sounds like unboxing for their medical records. An unboxing video.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, yeah, exactly, exactly, you.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Know what is in the box.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Sometimes they compared it to people who are like when
people were doing like college admission videos, where it was like, oh,
let's see if I got in or not, like I
applied to Clemson and.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Or I applied to Clemson. Yeah, either way, I didn't
know that was the thing. Oh yeah, college admission.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I don't know if it's as big as it was,
but that was a pretty big thing for a while.
So now it's people who will who will go outside
and well, they'll go anywhere. They'll sit at a table,
they'll go outside and sit in a backyard, like.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Whatever background they want.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And the videos generally pick up with them saying, I
just I just got the results for my fill in
the blank in my portal.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm gonna click on it and I'm just going to
read the results. And they do.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
And these are live streams.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A lot of them are recorded and they just posted.
Some of them are live streams.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Some of them they'll record themselves and post them.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Is the aim well, obviously the aim is to be
healthy and have the result you want. But if it
is not the result you're hoping to see, do you
then have this built in community that in the common
section can build you up.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And that's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Like that's where I was like at first, I didn't
get it. I was like, why would you want to
do that?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The same not and not not.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
For like medical privacy reasons, like who cares the I mean,
it's your stuff. You want to say what it is,
that's your own hippa the But I was like, why
would you want to do that? But they go back
and they talk about hey, Kristen, will you see if
anybody's watched these? Will you find me somebody who's watched
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these or done one?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
What's the hashtag?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You know what? I don't know the answer to that.
I don't hashtag benind I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But I'm just like, if we're trying to search this
review medical Reveal, Medical Reveals, just write that, Yeah, okay,
this video picked up.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh, Kristen, will you see if you can find me
somebody that's watched a video. If you can find me
somebody that's made the video, that'd be amazing eight six
six to Elliott eight six six two three five five
four six eight. And these things are running up views
like crazy. But you see what I mean, Like there's
a whole part of.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Like the Internet world that is obsessed with these.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I see here in an article about it's some embedded examples.
There's one where the person's very excited.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Great.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
There's another where it looks like the video cuts off
before you even see the result, but the person is
so nervous. It makes me uncomfortable to see that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay, but you don't know what it's what it was for.
It could be for something.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I think it's the medical results.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
No, no, I know that, but you don't know what
she's getting ready to learn.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
This video starts. I just need to click view results.
But I'm starting to feel a little sick to my stomach.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
No evidence of localized disease recurrence or mestastic disease in
my abdomen or pelvis.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, it is serious stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yes, well, it's just I'm trying to say. Some of
them are just blood tests.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Some of them, like there was one that was like, girl,
I wish I had that A one C.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Most recently, I could have done my test to see
if I had white coat syndrome, but I didn't even
want to bring it up after you read that last one.
And yes, Sarah, I have white coat syndrome.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh he's afraid of doctors.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, you get scared when you go to the doctors.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I don't, but it's not an outward emotion.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know. They tested your heart that's that your
heart rate spikes.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I had to know my blood pressure the same thing.
I had to buy a commoditor, yeah, to check for
about four three four weeks after my physical so I
could bring in my log and then also bring in
my machine and check it and see if in the
(05:32):
presence of a doctor, my body, unbeknownst to me, just
is anxious and it is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is around doctors.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Every time I go in for a physical the month before,
I have to start logging my blood pressure again.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Gotcha?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
But do you see this woman? This is what I'm
talking about. I don't want to watch this.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I told you I don't know if I a mess.
Well you don't. I don't know what results she's waiting on, but.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You see it's clearly is stressed.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, no, I'm saying, but I don't know if she
is waiting to find out. I mean, this's gonna sound bad.
I don't know if she's waiting to find out.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
If she has cancer or if I'm waiting to find
out if she has high A one c's.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
She's way too upset for this to be something minor.
She's freaking out, wringing her hands. Look at her. Her
brow is all frowned, whatever furrowed.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
These videos are the unintended result of a law passed
in twenty sixteen which mandated that providers give participant or
patients rather full access to the entirety of their medical
records as quickly as possible. The law went into effect
in twenty twenty one, and ever since, raw test results
have arrived on screens the instant.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They're processed by the labs.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Gone are the days of having a live conversation to
get the results. So people are getting the results, and
then that community of people, and I'm telling you, it's
everything from oh, I mean this, it's horrible, I had
that type of cancer, I had this type of cancer,
to I wasn't kidding. There was somebody who's like, girl,
(07:13):
love your A one c's or like, oh good blood pressure, Like.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I mean, it's all kinds of stuff. But that's their
only community of either support or celebration.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
You know what, when I think back to that November
December blood pressure issue, put that aside. You have to
my doctor, you have to get the blood test ahead
of time, right, And it was because historically you discussed
the results with the doctor. When I went in this
past November, and I understand you mentioned a few years ago,
(07:46):
this long past, they asked me, so, did you already
look on the portal for your blood panel results? And
I said no, And they were surprised they have yet. Yeah,
why wouldn't you because I don't know how to interpret
at all.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's what the internet's for.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You don't have my good God, you don't want me
typing in symptoms and all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You don't have to.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It'll tell you on there, like it'll give you your number, yes,
and then it'll say, this is enormous.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well you baally do this. I've done it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You don't wait to interact and hear the interpretation of
the doctor.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Remember I only I don't get it done ahead of time,
So I'll do it afterwards, and I'll read through it
and if.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
There's anything, I text them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
But it'll say like this is lower, this is high,
and then there's usually a descriptor underneath it that says
normal ranges between sixty seven and seventy. And then you're like, well,
I'm sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I guess I'm good.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So is the doctor in my case my internet audience. Yes,
I'm finding out in front of her.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And it's almost like I don't want to learn by myself.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, because nobody's there with you.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Just be told I didn't even know that they posted them,
and I told you that it was shocking that my
doctor's office even was allowed to put medical records online
because they told me when I first joined the practice
that they would never pass any sort of clearance because
it's a little bit backwards.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No, I mean every I mean it's in your portal.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I checked, Well now it is.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, I have to go to a doctor today.
I'll find out what the portal is. If I have
stitches in here tomorrow. Just pretend you don't see them.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The stitches are a big bandage over stitches.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It could be either one. Oh yes, yes, just pretend
you don't see it.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'll have Casey take a picture. Make sure that's sunlight blind. No, no,
I want it spotlighting it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Where am I going? Line one? Hi Ellie in the morning? Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I was just calling in because when you were talking
about this, it honestly reminded me of everybody doing like
their pregnancy test.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh that's another good one. That's another good one.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yes, yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Because I like will see them all the time and
I'm like, oh my god, they're pregnant or you know, well,
yeah that's.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
All I gotcha. I agree it happy?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You know this seems to me like half the time
these tests are probably bad news.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I mean if you go on odds, probably.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
But as a year you're willing to say it's be
fifty to fifty. But I want to tune in, yes,
because you're hoping for it to be good, or you
also find some pleasure again their pain.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I could not watch these. But I think it's people
that are either a going to be a very comforting person,
like I don't think somebody's going to post on there,
Oh I got my six month scan, guess what's back.
(10:57):
I don't think there's somebody waiting to go serves your
write a like. I don't think there's that. I think
it's people who are being very like. It does say
a potentially quite lonely experience is transformed into a communal one.
The individual is no longer alone with the screen and
the data. They're in a community with people all over
(11:19):
the world who chime in with comments celebrating good news
or lamenting the bad, or worrying ambiguous, worryingly ambiguous.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Your blood work is amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
That was a comment.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I was like, girl, you're a one C. But then
it could also be like, hey, you know, it could
be it could be a it could just be an
internet hug. But remember like this woman who we have
no idea what she's wringing her hands about in the
whole thing, but she's she's checking the answers in the
(11:58):
backyard while you see her dog running around by the fence.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, she's at home, that's my point. There's nobody if
she if she's getting if she's getting bad news, she's
not sitting with her doctor who can wrap his arms
around her and give her a hug.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So is this with a doctor or is this somebody
looking at their results in the portal?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
What do you mean? So no, no, like that. That
woman's at home, just looking at the portal.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Right, So my doctor isn't gonna let the videotape me
watching him, Well.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
You can just videotape yourself as the doctor is. Hey,
hey Elliott, you need to have search.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
If I were a doctor, I would never allow for
that two party state. I would never well, no, no,
I would. If I were a doctor, I would never
allow for that. I would never allow for that.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Is there a face to this trend? Is there someone
who's been going through a lot of treatment of an
illness that has a lot of updating. So this person has, oh,
I don't know, kind of become the most famous to
be doing the.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Kid Kardashian of medical reveals, well.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Like Olivium as Olivia mon came out with saying she
had breast cancer and was very vocal and like shared
the journey that kind of thing, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
On Good Morning America, not in her backyard with let's
click the portal.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But I bet a lot of these stories do start
with just you being intimate on Instagram or TikTok and saying, okay,
well I just want update you. I got the news
today my test results were positive and I have breast cancer.
That it didn't start with her going on good I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I don't know. I couldn't watch them. I couldn't see
somebody get bad news. I only like good news.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, this isn't for me either, definitely not.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I just also then, but people are getting millions of views,
millions of.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Views, which are they like, No, no, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Not the Paul brothers who are out there doing it.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Are they making money to help with their medical bills?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh? So I got my results written voke and then
it goes back. No, I'm not putting ads in there.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Because then I'd be concerned that that's for Big Lou.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
He's got he's got cancer too.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
People lying absolutely and saying I have to pay for
the surgery.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I can't believe.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I remember I just did it with some cats and
then my dad got in trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Where are you going? Kristen lined four? Hi Elliott in
the morning.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
Hey is this me?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah? Hi?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Who's that?
Speaker 8 (14:38):
This is Janet from Charlotte Stille. How are you?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'm doing great, Janet? What can I do for you?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
I was just going to share. So I'm a cancer
survivor and I have to go get regular tests, right,
And to what you were saying, like about the immediate results,
they actually have a choice. The organism, the hospital or
the test the center can allow you to have your
results instantly, or they can say you have to wait
(15:05):
to see the doctor. And so like I go to UVA,
and I go to Martha Jefferson and Charlotte czviel I
Cancer Treatments Sure, and UVA has theirs turned off, so
I don't get mine instantly, which I you know, I
don't know how I feel about it because I go
get a statis scan like every three months, right, and
there's a lot of anxiety that goes with that. Of
course you want to know the results. But at the
(15:26):
same time, I'm not really educated enough to read that report,
and I could misread it. So sometimes I really do
like the fact that UVA says you can't see it immediately,
but Martha Jefferson, I see it immediately, and it can
be really anxiety producing because you just don't know what.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh, listen, if I in in, if given an option,
if I don't mean like the option that you have.
But if I had to vote on whether to have
it go immediately to your portal or it comes from
your doctor, I would vote all day.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I'd rather good news, bad news. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
News, Go tell me my blood work is fantastic, tell
me I'm getting stitches. I'd much rather do it talking
to my doctor. So if I had to vote, I
would have voted the law that way. But because I
know it's in the portal, I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Just gonna go.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Look, you can't help yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
The Yeah, what is that? What did they call that?
The forbidden fruit? No, I don't know, Well, you know,
what I mean. But yeah, no, it's like.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
The app, like immediately when the result comes.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
In, Yeah, you get a notification and all of a sudden,
it's like you got results. I'm like, hot, damn, let
me set up a computer right right.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Yeah, it's it's really compelling because you want to know,
you know, but at the same time you're going to
be reading that result and not have the context.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
No well not having the not have the context, but
and also not have any contact like if it is
you know, and by the way, it could be great news,
it could be Listen.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Nothing makes me happier than to hear that that that
your your scans come out great and your survivor and
you're doing well. But I would imagine if it's what
you say, it's every three months, that first time that
you know, after you went through and you rang the
bell and you did all of that, the first time
you had to go in for three months and you
took that scan and your notification popped up and it
came back that you're clear.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I bet the first thing.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You wanted was to just hug somebody because you were happy,
not because you were sad or scared, but just because
you were happy.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And what are you gonna do hug the kitchen table.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Well, my story doesn't work out that way. I actually
my first scan after my surgeries and my chemo came
back to the cancer had come back and spread.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Okay, can't you.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Just play along?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I was.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Elliott, No, but I was trying to make a point
and not like, oh I got you got cancer.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
I got that kind of the situation, you know, like
you know, in my case, I was like I was
going in expecting I'm done, I'm free. You know, I'm
going to be in a good spot. And I go
in and I say, no, it's spread them on liver.
And that was oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
She didn't film this.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
But.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
It all turned out fine and I was good. But
like when I read that, like immediately, you know, it
was a real real bummer. It was obviously really depressing.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You probably still wanted to probably more than ever.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
I have to be honest, right right, right, all.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right, hold on, let me get you a hoodie, Let
me get.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
You You're so sweet.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
No, I'm just uncomfortable, all right, Hold on one second,
hold on one second?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
All right?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Was she helping or hurting?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Just play along?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Like please, you're telling of the story.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Well, I think I.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Did a really nice job telling the story, but then
she kind of came in and like messed.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Up the end.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
It was a plot twist.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But they should also be like, if you're going to
do it, like, let's make it fun. Like good news,
I get like the Loons and everything bad news, I
get the sound effect of John Wayne.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
So and I know you were a huge fan of
gender reveals.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I hated gender reveals.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Is this one day gonna be that yes like where
people have yes?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I mean it's going to grow into that.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Have the the moment learned when they cut into a
cake probably instead of just a flipped up laptop screen.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Hey you have cancer.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
No, no, we don't. You don't have to say it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You don't have to say it. I've got to have
a cancer. I have it built right into the app.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's one of those cards, the no.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Why wouldn't it, Why wouldn't it?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
You're right, you're right. Everyone's got to take it to
that next level.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Well, but the gender reveal, it's only good news.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Not if you want a boy or girl and don't
find out. We've seen those clips where like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We're the one of the parents get pissed.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, that's normally like when they kick the thing over
and it starts a brushfire, like.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You cut open the cake and they're like, oh, never mind,
it was a false positive, you're not pregnant.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Or how about when like the grandmother makes it all
about herself?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Where am I going?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Are we supposed to wait to pull the little string
on the confetti? I'm so sorry?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Hi elliot in the morning.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's this John?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yes? John? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I've had kidney cancer and or flatter cancer out of
lung cancer. I get news on my portal. I have
to go in for CT scans like every three months.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And do you get the results from your doctor or
do you get them on the portal?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
I get them on the portal.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Do you like that or would you rather it be
delivered by your doctor?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Um, it's fine getting him on the portal. I know quicker.
If there's something that needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Based on what you told me, there's a lot. Hey,
what is the but can I can I ask you this?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Honestly?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Like I understand that you get them, you get the
results quicker, right, I do understand that, And it's immediately. Listen,
I would vote to not make it an option, but
I still do it. I look at it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
But what even if you get if you get bad news,
Let's say you get it, you know, ten days earlier.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Man, that's a long time. A week earlier, and you
find out that something is bad. If it's bad, you
know the doctor's calling you soon. Anyway, It's not like
you got to get the results and then call and
schedule an appointment if you've got some really bad news
in there. So does getting it that much faster? I mean, honestly,
does it make that much of a difference.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
The answer is no, Well, you do get by getting
your results quicker. You can go ahead, send a message
to your doctor and go ahead and say, yeah, I'd
come in any time here. Because when I found my lung,
it was like a small legion, and all of a
(22:00):
sudden it increased in its size. So I said, all right,
I guess I need to get an appointment scheduled, and
got one within like two or three days.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, and that's great, that's great, right, Like I am
happy to hear that. So I guess there is in
your case, there was a was a benefit.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You sound like you're doing pretty good now?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Oh yeah, I'm doing great, except why I have to
go in for another pistoscophy here in a month.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
What's a fistosco cystoscopy? You know what that is?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Wait? What is that? What is that?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Do you want to tell him? Or do you want
me to tell him?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I'll tell him. Go ahead, Well, you know what a
colonoscopy is?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah? Oh, they they ain't going in through your wang.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Yes, they are.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Ding jeopardy.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Hey did they numb that thing? Do they numb it?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Well? A lot of times they'll do it as an
office visit and they just take a Q tip with
light a cane and try to numb you out. It
don't work. I'm sorry, but I am a real py
when it comes to that. I get them to knock
(23:13):
me out. If they're gonna knock me out for a colonosity,
they're gonna knock me out going off my wine.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Hey, no, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I'm a big pussy. I'd be a big pussy about
it too, dude. I am right there with you, right
there with you. Hey, blacker, camo, what what kind of
hoodie do you want?
Speaker 6 (23:30):
I'll do a camo.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Good idea. Good idea. All right, hold on one second.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Oh my god, you've definitely had this.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I blocked that out. I blocked that out.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I'm not surprised. One day you'll probably need one.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I doubt it. Why would you?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Why would he need one?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
What do you get him for as you get old,
any sort of cancer, bladder cancer.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Maybe he's never gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
He's gonna get cancer. Why I don't Plenty of smokers
don't get cancer. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Maybe the weighing is not necessary. Your words not mine. Uh,
for the lungs.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
The no, but you'd be fine. You don't necessarily have
to get that. I am not getting that. Hi, Elliot
in the morning.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Hey, good morning, this is me.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, Hi, real quickly, what can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Yeah, Ellie. I'm thinking that the reason why people go
to the portals and announce their results is because they're
missing that human touch that doctors tell me they're.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Absolutely right, and that's what they believe.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Started this is that when when people are getting those
results being good, bad, indifferent, It is all stemming from
it's on your portal and you're opening them literally sitting
at your kitchen table by yourself or on the couch
by yourself, or you're not surrounded by you know, a
doctor or some nurses or anybody in the office. You're
(24:58):
sitting there by yourself. And so at least that way,
there's an online community who can either you know, give
you praise hands or or you know, one hundred well,
you know whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But you're exactly right. You're exactly right. Thank you, Yes, Tyler.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Two things. Yes, there's a d M saying you're gonna
need one of those for your stone.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
No, for a kidney stone.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Don't you have one they detected?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, yes, but it hasn't moved, but they can tell
that it's it called.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
They get to dump that.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Cisoscopy, sistoscopy.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I'll tell you what if I have to get it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You know, how did they find my How did they
find my kidney stone? I got the locker exam.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
So who do you want?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Locker?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Minister locker? And then from Bruce, why.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Puts the biscuit in the basket? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Oh you know what? And then I'll just be there
with Joe b sound effects. Oh it's intended. And then
Bruce writ's on X. A lot of states delayed patient
access to results to avoid risk of patient self harm. Yeah,
I can see that.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Wait, say that again, Say that again.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
A lot of states delayed patient access to results to
avoid risk of patient self harm.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
If you get very very bad news, you freak out.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
And so they do something.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But if they're delaying that, okay, But what is delaying
access have to do?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Like until after you talk to your doctor.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
This was an argument for not posting things online.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
So come and sit down so I can tell you you.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Got Oh so they delayed it until after you talk
to the doctor.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, no, I listen. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I'm all for you not being able to find out
from anybody but your doctor or nurse in the office.
Some medical person should be the one who tells you
good news or bad.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
News and his verse riots. What if it was a
misunderstanding of the information.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Oh, like I read it wrong or I just don't
understand it. Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But I think they had to start doing this because
doctor's time of telling you, hey, by the way, your
results are negative, you had to have an appointment to
do that. Doctor's time could probably be used elsewhere for
something that's just like, hey, you're all good.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Pre portal like pre as much access to portals as
there is now.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
So maybe it was during an overlap where it was
some that had it or not.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Wouldn't the office say we'll call you with the results
and that you would either.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Get the.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Hey its elliot, I'm in doctor Gupta's office.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Just want to let you know all the results are good.
Thank you, you know, have a good day, or you
would get hey it elliot, doctor Gupta's office.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Why don't you give us a call back? Just got
your results? Why don't you give us a call back?
Talk to you soon, hurry.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
And then that's why I always say note to voicemails
and certainly don't call.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Lindsay no, no, but you know what I mean, like, yes,
I do understand that takes time.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
But if you're concerned, is that there's going to be
a patient that's.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Going to harm themselves misunderstanding like a lot of that,
A lot of the medical mumbo jumbo, I don't get.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I think Bruce brought up a great point, and I
don't even think it was for a sweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The no, but I give him one. I'd give him one.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
I'm uncomfortable That was Summer's favorite exchange of the show. Today,
call her You're so sweet, Elliott, No, I'm just uncomfortable.
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