Shalise Tansey

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This episode was produced by Alexia Russell and engineered by Chris Wethy.

I'm Shalise Tansey.

Ka kite anō.

When you put so much trust in an organisation to take care of the most like sacred information that you have, which is your own personal information,

You expect them to have these security measures in place.

And now that this has happened and these random people somewhere in the world just have my data, I'm just like, how am I meant to trust my health providers?

That is such a personal trust that you put in them.

So my data was stolen, essentially.

The hackers, whoever got in, they took all my health records that were on file.

So all the health documents in terms of like ED discharge notes, orthopedic notes, post-op check notes, all of those were taken.

Oh, absolutely.

So I was in a car crash at the end of 2024, like the very end of it.

I had a laceration across the top of my head.

My spine, the top vertebrae in my spine was broken.

Both my wrists were fractured and dislocated.

And I had injuries on both hands.

My left hand was the worst with the bottom row of what's called your metacarpal bones, essentially, as the surgeon described it, exploded.

Ouch.