by Jodi O’Malley MSN, RN, America Outloud:

Let’s continue the dialog with an anonymous Utilization and Review Nurse (UR) who reached out to Nurse April and me after hearing about our show on 12/28 with the following email:

April and Jodi-

I just listened to your episode from December 28th. You guys are awesome! I’m a new gardener, owner of 4 chickens, and also an RN (formerly critical care then L&D but now I work for a major insurance company in utilization review from home). Like you all, I’ve been in total disbelief over the last few years at what I’ve been seeing from our colleagues. I knew from April 2020 that something was seriously wrong. In my current job which I’ve been in since 2015, I review medical records of inpatient admissions all day long. I was on maternity leave when covid hit and went back to work early thinking surely they must need me- instead I came back and we had hardly anyone in the hospital (and we review for the entire state of California- a supposed hot zone). In the beginning, I was reviewing H&Ps of docs giving hydroxy for COVID.