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whygetfat on Nostr: The Gift of Time Danny Jones: "You had a story of a lady who came to you in one of ...

The Gift of Time

Danny Jones: "You had a story of a lady who came to you in one of your clinics. You had no idea why she came to you, but she. . ."

Dr. Jack Kruse: "Oh, I know where you're. . . this is the thing we talked about in Rick's podcast."

Danny Jones: "Yes, yes, the lady who wanted french fries."

Dr. Jack Kruse: "[…] This is before I had my 'come to Jesus' moment, meaning the whole quantum biology thing. It was very unusual.

"A lady tried to get in my office. […] She said, 'Look, I don't have a neurosurgical problem. But Dr. Kruse was involved in my care in a very weird way.' And she told the girl at the front desk that she had a heart transplant, because she had, I think it was myocarditis, but from a virus.

"She got a heart and I was the neurosurgeon that got the family to donate this kid's heart. She figured that out somehow through the paperwork that the hospital gave her. It turned out she was right. When I heard the story, immediately I knew what she was talking about. I had to go back and look at my files to see the details around the kid.

"The thing that I remembered is the kid was at a McDonald's drive-thru and a car came and T-boned him. He just got his like Happy Meal. The thing that they mentioned in the EMT report is that the kid had french fries all over his front seat.

"I remember his mom telling me, she goes, 'Oh, he never went to McDonald's. But he always loved their french fries.' That was what stuck in my head.

"So I actually had to go back and pull the kid's chart to find out. It turned out I was the neurosurgeon that pronounced him brain dead. That's when I called up the organ procurement agency and got the family to donate.

"I'm a little bit different than most neurosurgeons. A lot of neurosurgeons turn it over to the hospital and let them do it. I think it's much better if the neurosurgeon talks to the family, 'cause we can answer questions way better than they can. And neurosurgeons are pretty good about subtracting the emotion out when something like this happens.

"Danny, it's hard to say this to someone across the table, but neurosurgeons deal with death and destruction more than any other doctor in any other specialty. So we're really good at it. […]

"But the thing that happens with us, we catch people at all parts of life. People that have GBMs, at the end of the life, like 70, 80 years old. But kids that have subdurals, epidurals, that are 18, 19 years old. I mean the last case that I did I just took a bullet out of someone's temporal lobe who I think was 22 years old.

"The thing is when you deal with that stuff all the time, you're the best person to talk to the family. And I had an uncanny record of getting people to donate, because I think this happens to be a skill set that I have, a really good skill set. And part of me it bothers me because I know that these people are going to be tethered to big pharma.

"But at the same time, the most valuable asset that we can give in decentralized medicine is the gift of time.

"I have to tell you, I think the reason I feel passionate about this, if you know the other parts of my story when I talk about bitcoin, I tell people bitcoin is a time machine.

"But I'm going to tell you that your mitochondria in you is also a time machine. And when you do an organ transplant, you're effectively giving someone a time machine. And to me, that's the reason why, early in my career, the people that taught me. . . that's why I go all in. It's probably. . . this is hard to talk about. . . [long pause; eyes moisten]

"When other people are going through tragedy, you realize that you can give the gift of time to somebody else who it's running out of. There's no surgery that I can do that can do that, that can give that back. And the crazy part: I'm not even doing surgery.

"So I've never told anybody. . . I have a famous term where I say it's 'brain surgery without a scalpel.' This is the exact idea that I came up with, why I decided to be good at this, because I knew that I could give people back time if I was really good at doing that.

"The reason I sat down and talked to that lady is 'cause I knew how important it was to her.

"And then I thought about the family and I thought about the kid. That mother, I'll never forget her. It was heart-wrenching for her. I told her that her son would still be alive, just in a different format. I remember it like it was yesterday.

"But when that lady walked in, it was like reality hit me in the face. I was telling the mom that, and it turned out I got the lesson.

"I think it happened before I went through my own 'come to Jesus' moment, because this was preconditioning me to realize that I had to go on this journey. When you realize that a lot of things that you're doing to people isn't the right thing, and this is the right thing, that's when you have to go all in.

"I said a couple things to you when we were talking about the JFK thing, that incentives dictate outcomes. That's the day that incentive stopped dictating outcomes for me. That's when things began to change for me. That's when I started doing things based on time, and not based on money. That's why that story. . .

"I don't like to think about it, because for me, there's very few cases in a neurosurgery career where you know that you were changed. That was a big one."

Dr. Jack Kruse with Danny Jones @ 02:30:54–02:38:15 https://youtu.be/SiBFtwbyv44&t=9054
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