It reads like a dystopian novel — coercive health care executives running patient care at the expense of thousands of lives, nurse advocates rescuing medically “kidnapped” hospital admittees, public schools rewarded millions of dollars for mandating child masking, and children serving as hosts for experimental vaccines.
In his latest book, What The Nurses Saw: An Investigation Into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospitals During the COVID Panic and the Nurses Who Fought Back To Save Their Patients, Ken McCarthy documents real-world America during the earliest months of the Covid-19 outbreak. He sheds light on some of the most egregious and criminal acts committed in broad daylight in human history within our medical system. McCarthy argues widespread corruption of the news media, academia, and ultimately science has resulted in an extremely dysfunctional system that intrinsically places patients last.
McCarthy’s series of interviews with the unsung and often demonized health care heroes of the past few years — those who fought to save lives despite being threatened, accused, sued, and harassed — clarify the movement of funding and the ferocious, insatiable appetite of a system once designed to heal but now intent on hemorrhaging out conscientious employees.
Bateman: The title of your book is What the Nurses Saw. Tell me how you selected the nurses and health care professionals you did for this book. How did you determine which sources were trustworthy?
McCarthy: These are eyewitness accounts. All the people interviewed are veterans in their profession. Though they work in different parts of the country and different countries, their accounts were consistent.
The “prizes” they got for telling the story of what they saw included: demotion, firing, industry-wide blackballing, having their licenses challenged and in some cases revoked, as well as being tracked down and personally harassed by a well-organized group of internet trolls.
Bateman: You began these interviews in 2020. And three years later you saw so little to no traction on the publication of dissenting testimonies to the Covid groupthink that continues to dominate our society. Why compile them in a book versus publishing the interviews in another format?
McCarthy: I like to say “You can’t hand somebody a website.”
Also, as physically large as this book turned out to be, I could’ve written an encyclopedia on the subject. It has a lot of moving parts and requires the acquisition of a lot of specialized knowledge to see and tell the whole story. After the book came out, I’m still learning new things about it every day.
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