Casey Means
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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Yeah, you know, I'm in the operating room in my fifth year of my surgical residency and I'm looking down at a patient in front of me who's on our third revision sinus surgery.
And, you know, I know how to diagnose her.
I know how to write the prescriptions.
I know how to do the surgery.
But what I kind of realized in that moment was like, I have no idea why this patient's actually sick.
She has so many other health issues, prediabetes, arthritis.
She's got some brain fog.
She's got obesity and she's got this sinus issue.
And in my training, you know, I was never, ever, ever taught to look at the whole patient, to look at how all these things are connected.
And I was only taught how to do the surgery and then bill for it.
And I realized that there's a huge problem in how we're practicing medicine right now, which is we're ignoring the root causes of why Americans are sick.
And we're profiting off of patients getting sick and then doing things to them.
That's the way the business model of healthcare works.
The way that healthcare, which is the largest and fastest growing industry,
industry in the United States makes money is you have more patients in the system having more things done to them for longer periods of time.
And when I kind of put some of these pieces together and realized that my training had totally essentially incapacitated me from really understanding why patients are sick and how to actually help them thrive, I actually had to walk away from the surgical world because I realized that I was going to be making money off of essentially not spending time helping patients understand their health and actually just profiting off their illness.
I, on my birthday, 30th birthday, I walked into the office of my, of the chair of the department and I put down the scalpel and I walked away and I devoted my life to why are Americans getting sicker every year?
Why are 50% of American children dealing with a chronic health issue?
This was less than 1% 50 years ago.
Senator Kaine, as I've said, I believe vaccines save lives and are an important part of our population.
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