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Speaker 4: This is Amy King with kfi's wake up call. How
Speaker 4: do you hear me?
Speaker 2: Amy?
Speaker 5: This is Nick and I can hear you loud and clear.
Speaker 1: All right, KFI, welcome aboard and what you have just heard,
Speaker 1: and we're going to go diving into that a little
Speaker 1: deeper right now this morning at five point thirty, Amy
Speaker 1: King speaking to Nick, a Colonel Nick aboard the International
Speaker 1: Space Station.
Speaker 2: Now, before you get into it, Amy, I want to
Speaker 2: point out what a big deal this is.
Speaker 1: You have seen people interviewed in space, right, but you've
Speaker 1: always seen the interviews on national news outlets. It does
Speaker 1: not happen on local news outlets. It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: And Amy was able to pull it off.
Speaker 1: And so we're going to do She's going to play
Speaker 1: We're going to play a couple of snippets from the
Speaker 1: interview she did this morning, and then two questions which
Speaker 1: Amy of course did not ask, which inevitably I would
Speaker 1: have asked and that would have been the last time,
Speaker 1: of course, I would ever be allowed to talk to
Speaker 1: an astronaut.
Speaker 2: And so Amy, I'm going to just throw it to
Speaker 2: you with your interview.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, we're just going to play some excerpts of
Speaker 6: it and also let you know that you can listen
Speaker 6: to the whole interview on the KFI website at kfiam
Speaker 6: six forty dot com slash space. You can listen to
Speaker 6: today's interview that was live on the International Space Station,
Speaker 6: plus the others that we've done over the last six
Speaker 6: months with Colonel Hag who's been so generous in sharing
Speaker 6: his time as he prepared to go to the International
Speaker 6: Space station'll be putting out the Zoom call on our
Speaker 6: social media soon. They're putting some finishing touches on that.
Speaker 6: But it was fun for me because I got to
Speaker 6: actually see Colonel Haig up in space, and we want
Speaker 6: you to share that with you as well. He launched
Speaker 6: to the International Space Station on September twenty eighth, and
Speaker 6: so he's been there for less than a month, and
Speaker 6: his launch was actually delayed because of what happened with
Speaker 6: Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore. They were the astronauts who
Speaker 6: went up on the Boeing star Liner and then they
Speaker 6: couldn't come back on the star Liner. So they are
Speaker 6: basically going to spend eight or nine months on the
Speaker 6: space station. And they had to reconfigure Colonel Haig's mission
Speaker 6: to accommodate and be able to bring them home in February.
Speaker 6: So with Colonel Hagg and Alex who's the cosmonaut who's
Speaker 6: with him, and Sonny and Butch and others, it's getting
Speaker 6: a little crowded up on the space station. So I
Speaker 6: asked Colonel Haig how many people are there on board currently?
Speaker 5: Right now, we have eleven people on the space station,
Speaker 5: and today is kind of an exciting day. Crew eight
Speaker 5: is preparing to undock, so four of our crewmates are
Speaker 5: getting ready to hop into their capsule and return to
Speaker 5: Earth and splash down on Friday, and so there's a
Speaker 5: buzz of anticipation and excitement. I'm happy for them to
Speaker 5: be able to get back to their to their families.
Speaker 5: It's also it's also an exciting time because it's turning
Speaker 5: over another chapter, another crew handover. You know, they're passing
Speaker 5: the baton to us, if you will, and that baton
Speaker 5: passing has been happening continuously for two and a half decades,
Speaker 5: and their floats Matt screaming by getting ready to go
Speaker 5: up into his dragon and continue packing and getting ready
Speaker 5: to leave.
Speaker 6: So that was and you'll be able to see it
Speaker 6: on the zoom call because during this whole conversation with
Speaker 6: Colonel Hag there were astronauts buzzing by, and as he
Speaker 6: said that, that was part of the Crew eight, which
Speaker 6: is planning to come home. In fact, our interview that
Speaker 6: we've been talking about and promoting for the last week
Speaker 6: was in jeopardy yesterday because because they were weather dependent
Speaker 6: on when the Crew eight was going to be able
Speaker 6: to return, so they didn't know if they were going
Speaker 6: to have to adjust sleep schedules which would adjust when
Speaker 6: they would be available to talk and everything. But it
Speaker 6: all worked out, so we're thrilled about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the signal was amazing. Oh my god, that's for starters. Also,
Speaker 1: eleven people. Is that a lot of people? Is that
Speaker 1: a crowded iss.
Speaker 6: So when I've talked to Colonel Hag before, they usually
Speaker 6: I think it's like five six seven that are normally
Speaker 6: up there, So there are more people up there, but
Speaker 6: they can accommodate for it, and they said. He said
Speaker 6: that the size of the space station itself, if you
Speaker 6: go end to end, is the size of a football field.
Speaker 6: But if you look just at the pressurized places, the
Speaker 6: living spaces, it's the volume of a about a four
Speaker 6: or five store room house.
Speaker 2: Oh, so it's big.
Speaker 4: It's relatively large.
Speaker 6: And then he said that you use everything like you
Speaker 6: don't think of a four bedroom house like we think
Speaker 6: of it in a linear way, because they're using all
Speaker 6: the space all the way up to the ceilings. They
Speaker 6: can use every surface because there's no gravity and they
Speaker 6: have access to all of it.
Speaker 1: All Right, we have two minutes before the break. What
Speaker 1: can you do with that in terms of your interview?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: I asked him about how things run on the International
Speaker 6: Space Station, knowing that they have to get resupplies. They
Speaker 6: have missions going up to resupply them all the time,
Speaker 6: and I wanted to know how do you get your
Speaker 6: air and water? Is it shipped up there or do
Speaker 6: they just have it up there now and recycle it.
Speaker 5: It's a fairly closed loop system, meaning we have to
Speaker 5: recycle everything. And currently if we focus on water, the
Speaker 5: station is operating about ninety eight percent of the ability
Speaker 5: to recycle the water that we use. And so even
Speaker 5: right now, there's air conditioners that are scrubbing this air,
Speaker 5: and as we perspire moisture, they're condensing that, putting it
Speaker 5: back into a system that purifies it so we can
Speaker 5: drink it. And so we're able to recover ninety eight
Speaker 5: percent of the water that we consume, which is important
Speaker 5: because water is really dense, it's really heavy, and things
Speaker 5: that are heavy or expensive to launch. It'll be even
Speaker 5: more important when we start having a sustained presence on
Speaker 5: the Moon to be able to recycle without having to
Speaker 5: resupply and use our resources that are in place already.
Speaker 4: So you kind of have an endless supply Now that
Speaker 4: it's there.
Speaker 5: It's pretty endless, but we still rely on cargo vehicles
Speaker 5: every month or two to bring up some supplies to
Speaker 5: resupply us. One of the things that we are working
Speaker 5: on but we haven't figured out yet, is how do
Speaker 5: we grow all the food that we need so that
Speaker 5: we don't have to resupply with food. Currently, we resupply
Speaker 5: all of our food from the ground, and so we
Speaker 5: rely on those transport vehicles to bring us up food
Speaker 5: every couple months to make sure we've got enough to eat.
Speaker 6: And he said that, as you mentioned, they're working on
Speaker 6: that because and that's some of the experiments that they're doing,
Speaker 6: because they're always doing tons of experiments, and that's one
Speaker 6: of them, is trying to learn figure out how they
Speaker 6: can grow stuff in space.
Speaker 2: Do they filter their p or is that gone? And
Speaker 2: that's a legitimate question. I have a few that aren't.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I didn't ask him that because see.
Speaker 1: Amy, you have to ask me questions that you're going
Speaker 1: to ask the colonel next time.
Speaker 6: Well again, as you mentioned, you probably wouldn't be able
Speaker 6: to interview him again, and I'm hoping that i'd get
Speaker 6: to chain.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to come back and we're going to
Speaker 2: do more.
Speaker 1: We'll finish it up and then at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, Jim Keeney is going to join us with
Speaker 1: Medical News.
Speaker 2: And back we go. Amy.
Speaker 1: This morning at five point thirty an interview with a
Speaker 1: Colonel Nick Haig, and it was in a normally an
Speaker 1: interview because she was here at KFI. He was on
Speaker 1: the International Space Station circling the Earth and for a
Speaker 1: locals to have an interview in a conversation with an
Speaker 1: astronaut up there is no small thing. And Amy and
Speaker 1: Colonel Haig have actually sort of become friendly, which is
Speaker 1: kind of neat. You've developed somewhat of a relationship with him.
Speaker 6: Well, we got the opportunity months ago to talk to
Speaker 6: him because he's a Space Force guardian and he's the
Speaker 6: first guardian to go up to the International Space Station.
Speaker 4: You used to be Air Force.
Speaker 6: He switched over to Space Force and now there's like
Speaker 6: five thousand Space Force or maybe it's ten thousand, but
Speaker 6: he's the first to go to the International Space Station,
Speaker 6: and they wanted to kind of get out the word
Speaker 6: about what Space Force does, and so that's how we
Speaker 6: kind of hooked up initially. And then after talking to
Speaker 6: him and he's so great to talk to and has
Speaker 6: just has so much information, we're like, can we do
Speaker 6: this again, Like, as you're training to do your mission,
Speaker 6: we want to hear about what it's like to train
Speaker 6: to go up to the International Space Station. So that's
Speaker 6: how that all started, and now like six months later,
Speaker 6: he's up there on the International Space Station.
Speaker 1: So let's pay a little bits and pieces of this
Speaker 1: interview this morning, which, by the way, I will explain
Speaker 1: how you can hear the whole thing or see the
Speaker 1: whole thing even all.
Speaker 6: Right, Amy, Okay, So you know they have to eat
Speaker 6: up there, and you think of space food, and I
Speaker 6: always think of like tang and MRIs, which are the
Speaker 6: meals ready to eat in the military. And I thought,
Speaker 6: oh God, that's got to be gross. So I asked
Speaker 6: Colonel Haig, how's the food.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the food is great up here. There's plenty of it,
Speaker 5: and there's a variety of flavors. You know, this morning
Speaker 5: I was able to have some coffee with cream and sugar.
Speaker 5: I had some citrus fruit salad, some strawberries, oatmeal with
Speaker 5: blueberries in it, and a vegetable kish That's what I
Speaker 5: had this morning. It's delicious, no complaints.
Speaker 6: Sounds better than what I had for breakfast. Also, in
Speaker 6: some of our other interviews, we've talked about space walks.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, how amazing would that be?
Speaker 6: And he's talked about it because this is actually a
Speaker 6: second time up to the International Space Station and so
Speaker 6: he's described those experiences to us before, and he's going
Speaker 6: to be up there for six months. He hasn't gotten
Speaker 6: to do a spacewalk on this mission. Yet, so I
Speaker 6: asked him, does everybody get to do a spacewalk or
Speaker 6: do you.
Speaker 4: Have to kind of rock paper scissors to see who
Speaker 4: gets to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more like rock paper scissors. Unfortunately, there's not
Speaker 5: enough spacewalk.
Speaker 2: I wish.
Speaker 5: I wish everybody could go out and experience a spacewalk.
Speaker 5: Sometimes there's an expedition where there's no work that needs
Speaker 5: to be done on the outside. Spacewalks are a dangerous activity,
Speaker 5: a risky activity that we take, and so we only
Speaker 5: go out when we have to. And so the things
Speaker 5: that compel us to go out there are to fix
Speaker 5: things that are broken, to kind of maintain our laboratory.
Speaker 5: The other things we go out to do are put
Speaker 5: science in place, or to repair science experiments or increase
Speaker 5: the capabilities of the station. So we don't go out
Speaker 5: all the time, but when we do, we sure try
Speaker 5: to enjoy it.
Speaker 6: And he gets to experience a lot as he's whizzing
Speaker 6: around the Earth at more than seventeen thousand miles an hour.
Speaker 6: So I asked Colonel Haig what his favorite thing was
Speaker 6: about being in space.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of things that you that you really enjoy,
Speaker 5: so it's tough for me to say this is my
Speaker 5: favorite thing. Going over and watching the earth glide by
Speaker 5: is unbelievable. In ten minutes, we can go all the
Speaker 5: way from Washington State, all the way down to the
Speaker 5: tip of the you know, the Florida Peninsula and Key
Speaker 5: West and see the entire US glide by. And you
Speaker 5: can look down with your naked eye and you can
Speaker 5: see the city, city, roads and buildings, and it feels
Speaker 5: so close, even though you know you're two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty miles away. That's it's just it's awe inspiring to
Speaker 5: have that perspective. But you know, when you come back inside,
Speaker 5: it's it's fun to be able to do tricks and
Speaker 5: flips and be upside down and which he's doing right now,
Speaker 5: continue to talk, and so that never gets old. We
Speaker 5: have our own little competition of you know, who can
Speaker 5: do as many flips without wrecking into something or transit
Speaker 5: the lab in the most dynamic way. But I think
Speaker 5: the singular most favorite thing I like doing up here
Speaker 5: is doing things with other humans. You know, that shared
Speaker 5: experience of whether we're competing and doing zero G gymnastics
Speaker 5: or whether we're both looking out the window that shared
Speaker 5: experience makes it even more special.
Speaker 2: You know, Amy, I assume, and we're going to end
Speaker 2: it with that.
Speaker 1: You're going to have another interview with him, because he's
Speaker 1: being very gracious and you have the relationship, and so
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you if you would note this
Speaker 1: down two or three things that you have to ask.
Speaker 2: Of course, bathroom issues okay.
Speaker 4: Not asking him about bathroom issues.
Speaker 2: Okay, bathroom issues number one and number two.
Speaker 1: Sex issues either with someone else or with himself, and
Speaker 1: any one of those three it has to be a mess.
Speaker 1: And you he's got to tell us what happens and
Speaker 1: how they deal with it.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 6: Again, I am hoping to talk to Colonel Hag again,
Speaker 6: so I'm not gonna ask question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Amy, come on, you could have done so much,
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 1: If people want to see this, okay, how do they
Speaker 1: replay this?
Speaker 2: How do they enjoy what you have done?
Speaker 4: Well, you're going to be able to see it right now.
Speaker 6: You can hear it the whole interview on the wake
Speaker 6: Up Call page at KFIAM six forty dot com, slash space,
Speaker 6: and again we're going to get the get it up
Speaker 6: on YouTube and then you'll be able to see the video,
Speaker 6: and it's really fun seeing Nick as he is, you know,
Speaker 6: doing those flips that he was just talking about on
Speaker 6: the space station and the other astronauts go whizzing by
Speaker 6: him as we're having our conversation, and it's really cool.
Speaker 6: We had seventeen minutes to talk with Colonel Hagg today
Speaker 6: and before we let him go, I asked him to
Speaker 6: share his final thoughts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Amy, I just want to say thank you for you know,
Speaker 5: talking with me over the past six to I think
Speaker 5: almost eight months now and helping me share this experience.
Speaker 5: The space flight and the human exploration of space is
Speaker 5: so important. It's so life changing, and I anybody that
Speaker 5: has the dream of getting involved with it, I urged
Speaker 5: them to just chase that passion. There is room for
Speaker 5: everyone as we explore deeper into space.
Speaker 1: That's cool, And it sounded like he was in studio,
Speaker 1: didn't it. It was amazing most to two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty miles above the Earth and flying around yep.
Speaker 6: And we were connected through Johnson's Space Center in Houston.
Speaker 4: Up to that to this PlayStation.
Speaker 1: It's time for some medical news with doctor Jim Kiney,
Speaker 1: chief medical Officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Lafe,
Speaker 1: Long Beach and board certified er doctor extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Jim, good morning, Good morning, Bill go all.
Speaker 1: We have talked for a while. I've been gone and
Speaker 1: so it's kind of nice to have you back. And
Speaker 1: the great news that came out is you can go
Speaker 1: to McDonald's and have an eMac. Used to be a
Speaker 1: big mac, now it's an eMac.
Speaker 2: Because of E. Coli.
Speaker 1: And this is, I guess not fun. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: it because you know, here's the news. One person dead
Speaker 1: not good news. And I think about nineteen people injured.
Speaker 1: Why is that now exploding in the news with the
Speaker 1: number of people that are affected so small.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean it is surprising that the number is
Speaker 7: so small because the stuff is mass produced, and you know,
Speaker 7: it can really affect the large quantities of beef for
Speaker 7: other food sources. So when they do discover it, they
Speaker 7: want to let people know. From what I haven't heard
Speaker 7: so far is that E. Coal I one five seven.
Speaker 7: You know, that's the strain that causes kidney failure and
Speaker 7: more severe damage and can be extremely life threatening. So
Speaker 7: you know, they just want to let people know and
Speaker 7: recall any of the meat that may have been affected.
Speaker 3: But you're right.
Speaker 7: I mean, we have one of the safest food handling
Speaker 7: systems in the world.
Speaker 3: So I mean that's just part of the process.
Speaker 1: Now someone has ecoal i and again we've talked about
Speaker 1: this over and over again, the same symptoms you fever,
Speaker 1: achy in this case, a lot of diarrhea, gastro intestinal issues,
Speaker 1: and you've got dozens of different diagnoses. How quickly can
Speaker 1: you cure them, deal with it or is there a
Speaker 1: point where they have really hit critical mass?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's the key, and I don't want to
Speaker 7: get too gross, but the key here is typically fever.
Speaker 7: You know, because a lot of people have vomiting and
Speaker 7: they'll have some diarrhea and those are often viruses. They
Speaker 7: could be related to something that was in the food,
Speaker 7: or allergies, other things, inflammatory colitis, all these types of things.
Speaker 7: But when you have a fever, and especially if you
Speaker 7: have blood in the diarrhea, that's when that's what we
Speaker 7: call dysentery, when you have blood. And so that's when
Speaker 7: usually we want to get treatment going and we'll send
Speaker 7: these offer a stool culture to see what grows, because
Speaker 7: the problem is if you treat that E. Coli one
Speaker 7: five seven that I just mentioned. With antibiotics, you're actually
Speaker 7: more likely to induce kidney failure. So that one we
Speaker 7: will be more supportive with and try and avoid contact
Speaker 7: with other people so you don't spread it. That when
Speaker 7: we start people on antibiotics, it shortens the course of
Speaker 7: the disease and it reduces the spread. More importantly, it's
Speaker 7: not that it's an absolute necessity to start people on
Speaker 7: antiotics when they get an E.
Speaker 3: Coli infection.
Speaker 1: What you're saying, if I got it right, that getting
Speaker 1: them in on biotics can actually cause the kidney to fail.
Speaker 2: And therefore, what do you do? Is it a choice
Speaker 2: of one or the other.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So that's why we want to get the stool
Speaker 7: culture first, because we want to know what we're treating exactly,
Speaker 7: and if it depends if the person has other underlying conditions,
Speaker 7: you may decide to take the risk of trying to
Speaker 7: improve their condition with antibiotics. Otherwise you may withhold it
Speaker 7: to see how they do on their own clearing the infection.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How contagious is this because if you're only talking to
Speaker 1: relatively few people, is it you have to be in
Speaker 1: contact with that food source.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you either have to be in contact with the
Speaker 7: food source or with somebody who's been stricten ill with
Speaker 7: the E.
Speaker 3: Coli.
Speaker 7: Because it is true that a lot of people don't
Speaker 7: do a great job of handwashing, and again it's pretty gross,
Speaker 7: but it's called fecal oral contamination. So someone uses the restroom,
Speaker 7: doesn't wash their hands, and then they're either involved in
Speaker 7: food prep or or touch something that you touch, and
Speaker 7: then it can get into your system.
Speaker 1: So would you advise people who have gastro intentional problems
Speaker 1: to just take a look in the toilet to see
Speaker 1: what's going on. Yeah, especially especially before breakfast, especially if
Speaker 1: you're eating oatmeal.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 7: You know, Yeah, you need to take a look, see
Speaker 7: what's going on. And if you see blood or you're
Speaker 7: having ever, that's the time you need to see a doctor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean all kidding aside, my intern is for
Speaker 1: years and years said Bill, you got to look. I
Speaker 1: mean that is part of diagnosing, to find out if
Speaker 1: you've got any issues.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but if you're if you're a male over fifty,
Speaker 7: you're pretty much, you know, judging the entire quality of
Speaker 7: your day based on what.
Speaker 3: It looks like. So you don't have to tell those
Speaker 3: that group of people to.
Speaker 1: Look, Yeah, what is the quality of the day after
Speaker 1: you've looked at inside the toilet. I don't know that
Speaker 1: that is a different medical issue. It's probably like logical
Speaker 1: issue and that's not what you do. And we've got
Speaker 1: just talking to Jim about the e coali the well.
Speaker 1: I guess this reread of e coal I for it's
Speaker 1: been a while since we've had that. And this is
Speaker 1: doctor Jim Keeney, who is a chief medical officer for
Speaker 1: Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach and an
Speaker 1: er doc. All right, Jim, let's talk about this nationwide
Speaker 1: ivy fluid shortage.
Speaker 2: And a lot we're better off now.
Speaker 1: But how important is this stuff to the general medical world?
Speaker 3: So, I mean for.
Speaker 7: Certain people, I mean this is critically important. So it's
Speaker 7: you know, ivy fluids. Sometimes when you can't either you
Speaker 7: can't eat because you're gonna have surgery, or because you
Speaker 7: have other conditions going on, because you need dialysis, because
Speaker 7: you're in septic shock or other serious critical condition, these
Speaker 7: fluids can be life saving. On the other hand, I mean,
Speaker 7: this is probably one of the most over you used
Speaker 7: resources in medicine. You know, you come to the hospital
Speaker 7: what's the first thing they do. They put in an
Speaker 7: iv It's gone to the point where almost patients are
Speaker 7: disappointed if they don't have an IVY put in their
Speaker 7: arm when they get here. I know that's not true
Speaker 7: for everybody. Some people say why is this thing here?
Speaker 7: But a lot of people will look at you like,
Speaker 7: why don't I even you haven't even given me an
Speaker 7: IVY yet you've done nothing for me, So you know,
Speaker 7: heavily overused. We know that oral rehydration works better actually
Speaker 7: than IV rehydration when it's possible. But for those people
Speaker 7: that are critically ill, I mean, we need.
Speaker 3: To use these fluids.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I was talking about those the bags of saline right
Speaker 1: that you hang on those little hooks and then they
Speaker 1: go ahead and.
Speaker 3: Go into your arm exactly.
Speaker 7: But it's used to carry meds into your system, so
Speaker 7: certain medication bags. It's used to perform dialysis, it's used
Speaker 7: during surgery.
Speaker 3: Like I said, so wide use and critical.
Speaker 7: But the Baxter's plant in North Carolina, which was hit
Speaker 7: by Hurricane Heleen, they produce six sixty percent of the
Speaker 7: IVY fluids for the entire United States. So again we
Speaker 7: keep getting revealed all of these production bottlenecks where one
Speaker 7: company gets wiped out and we're in big trouble.
Speaker 3: So that's what's happening. They're trying to get back up
Speaker 3: to speed.
Speaker 7: I know that, you know, there's people that understand this
Speaker 7: is life saving stuff. So people that work at this
Speaker 7: factory are trying to get their personal lives back together
Speaker 7: and get back to work at the factory. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 7: factory has to be inspected cleaned because it was impacted
Speaker 7: by the hurricane. So they're not expecting to be back
Speaker 7: to normal production for some time. For they said probably
Speaker 7: through twenty twenty four. They will not be at normal production.
Speaker 1: I understand that they're bringing in the fluid from outside
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's one strategy is to try and get more
Speaker 7: from outside the country. But again, when you've lost almost
Speaker 7: sixty percent of the fluid production in the United States,
Speaker 7: that's that's a big ask. So we're you know, of course,
Speaker 7: we're putting in strategies to reduce the unnecessary use of
Speaker 7: IVY fluids and to you know, there's all kinds of
Speaker 7: strategies that we can employ that kind of not necessarily
Speaker 7: use all the fluid that we used to use and
Speaker 7: really have no harm to patients. But again, it is
Speaker 7: a widely overused therapy. It's just people think it has
Speaker 7: no big expense and no big downside, so they give
Speaker 7: people fluids. But there is expense and there is downside.
Speaker 7: So this might be a good learning lesson where we
Speaker 7: can kind of tighten up when and how we use
Speaker 7: IVY fluids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing with antibiotics to you know, we've talked
Speaker 1: about that that you just throw antibiotics at someone because
Speaker 1: the patient insists on it, and it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Where the immunity issue that we're losing immunity. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've talked about that over and over. Takeaway here if
Speaker 1: you see the nurse filling up an IVY bag from the.
Speaker 2: Tap, that's problematic.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, that would be a problem.
Speaker 1: See that's how it goes. All right, Jim, thank you.
Speaker 1: We will talk again next Wednesday and we'll come up
Speaker 1: with some other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2: Have a good one. Welcome back, all right, Thank you
Speaker 2: very much, doctor Jim Keeney. Who's you know?
Speaker 1: Jim has been with us for over twenty years, and
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people who been with us
Speaker 1: for that long. God, we're all getting old and falling apart,
Speaker 1: aren't we Amy? By the way, never mind, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to go there falling apart, but okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1: I want to remind everybody two things that, first of all,
Speaker 1: the World Series starts on Friday, five oh eight is
Speaker 1: the first pitch, and we're the our sister station klac
Speaker 1: AM five seventy sports is covering it.
Speaker 2: Were they or they are the.
Speaker 1: Official Dodger broadcasts on radio also the iHeartRadio app, and
Speaker 1: the keyword is AM five seventy No, it's five seventy
Speaker 1: AM Sports, so you get to listen to the Dodgers game. Also,
Speaker 1: we're going to bring you more news about the interview
Speaker 1: that Amy did with Colonel Nick Haig aboard the Space
Speaker 1: station Great Stuff, and we'll talk about how you.
Speaker 2: Can listen to that on demand.
Speaker 1: It was at eight o'clock this morning, and on top
Speaker 1: of that, we're putting it up on Facebook and.
Speaker 2: Other ways because you want to see this.
Speaker 1: Also because he's flying around and doing his thing in
Speaker 1: zero gravity, so a lot going on. Tomorrow we start
Speaker 1: this all over again, saying goodbye to Elmer, who has
Speaker 1: been filling in for Kono. And by the way, Elmer,
Speaker 1: you have done an absolute mediocre job and it's greatly appreciated.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll see you again at some point. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out if Neil comes back with us tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He's a little under the weather, and hey, I'm here
Speaker 1: and I might as well, because this is what Amy does.
Speaker 1: She thanks everybody, So here we go. Thank you Amy
Speaker 1: for being with us, well, thank you Elmer for being
Speaker 1: with us, and thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 2: And Neil, thank you for not being here.
Speaker 1: And we'll see you tomorrow, maybe five am. Wake up call,
Speaker 1: and then we come aboard right here kf I am
Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
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