Dr. Vonda Wright
speaker
2,776 appearances
16 recordings
9 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 2 Jul
Dr. Vonda Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I need to do a 45-minute surgery on her where because she's broken her hip, I need to put a rod down that, the size of my thumb, actually.
I cannot do that if her heart is not healthy enough to withstand anesthesia.
And many times, her heart is so unhealthy because she's taking care of everybody else in the world except herself that the hospitalists have a hard time clearing her heart.
And do you know what else?
She either has a touch of dementia or she has full-blown Alzheimer's.
That is the state of women that I see every time I go to fix a hip on call.
And do you know in her lucid moments what she is saying to me?
She is standing there with her daughter.
It's usually the eldest daughter at the bedside.
She's looking at me.
She's looking at her daughter.
And time after time again, she'll say something like, I've not always been like this.
I don't know how I got here.
Don't ever let this happen to you.
Don't get old.
Well, I am not blaming her at all.
I see the future of women, Mel.
I can't not not cry.
If we know we have within our hands to change the trajectory of our future, and if we choose to not be the victims of the passage of time, we don't have to end up like all those women I take care of, 30% of whom after they break a hip will die.
We can choose another path.
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