Michael Caine
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to a specialist.
He talked about his daughter having thrush.
Well, then they looked in the throat.
They saw that there was a white coating back there.
And they said, oh, that looks like that's due to some sanitary problems that this child or the home might have.
Like completely horrible diagnoses that made no sense.
That seemed even I might even say classist, you know, definitely discriminatory.
These these people, I mean, they're the salt of the earth.
Right.
I mean, when I was talking, you know, to Peter about him coming here, he apologized to me a couple of times.
I helped him get here and make travel arrangements and such.
He apologized for for actually saying to me, you know, I'm like really poor and I'm sorry.
You know, I'm not able to to pay to get there and things like this.
um and i i totally can see when you hear the whole narrative how the hospital would just treat them as something they didn't need to care about that they didn't need to worry about uh people who they would tell what to do and not inform and not engage them in the process and this i mean this and this happens to people regardless of their class or status that doctors end up treating us just like a product
I have five minutes for you.
We need to get this done.
We need to move on.
And tragically, that ended up resulting in the death of at least two children misdiagnosed as being from measles.
That's not what it was.
It was medical error and it was malpractice.