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Jill Simons

Aug 27, 2026

15:40
You know, what have you observed within the pediatric community of, um, sort of physician attitudes towards, um, children with hypoplastic left heart or any other severe, um, congenital diagnosis?
15:53
Yeah.
15:53
It's, it's interesting what you were saying.
15:55
It made me think, you know, despite all the advances we've made and the improvements in not just, um, cardiac care, but all care for kids, that, um, you know, we are not more optimistic in, you know, presenting that to parents.
16:11
Um, and, and that there are seemingly colleagues of ours that, you know, are discouraging child's... you know, give, give the child, um, you know, the best hope for life.
16:23
And I mean, that's one reason I went into pediatrics was that, you know, children are so strong and infants and, um, you know, you wanna h- they have a huge life ahead of them.
16:34
And so, um, as opposed to, you know, older adult care, you're... you know, it's just natural, um, phases of life, but childhood infancy is just full of life and potential.

16 MINS LATER

33:01
... typical course?
10:18
Um, why did they do that? Why did they cover it up so much? Wh- what are they afraid of? What's the media afraid of in talking about this topic?
10:26
So, eh, let me speak to the pediatricians because I think they are driving this, the, the doctors in my profession.
10:33
And many people are afraid to tread.
10:35
Y- you know, they're not experts, so they don't wanna comment.
10:37
I think that's maybe where it starts.
10:39
Um, but my focus is on the pediatricians and we, we know.
10:42
Doctors know.

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19:40
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