Season 3 Episode 8 (27): Make A Miracle

Hello Treat Us Righters! Welcome to Season 3 Episode 8 of the Treat Us Right Podcast - Make A Miracle. I am your Host, David S. Williams III, CEO of Care3 and I’m here this episode to do the same thing I do every episode. Trying to get you the best health and care possible.

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Make A Miracle

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First, we have an announcement exclusively for Treat Us Right listeners. Our parent company, Care3, is now offering services to employers. That’s right. If you want a service that helps you better manage health and care for you and your family, your employer can pay for it as a benefit. Our full subscription service can be free to you. To learn more, go to care3.co/employers. Use the form at the bottom to let us know you’re interested and would like us to speak to your employer. We’ll follow up with you directly.

We’ve spent the past several episodes highlighting companies that promote health equity. If you’ve missed any from the ViVE Series, give them a listen. You may find a company that can help you or someone you love get the best care and health possible. Or as we say, to get treated right.

But this episode, I’m back to talking to you–directly in your ear. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re listening, it’s likely you or someone close to you.

How do people overcome insurmountable, even impossible odds recovering from a health event? How do people live better when everyone says they’re not supposed to with a chronic condition? Is there a method to these supposed miracles?

Here’s the truth. In the vast majority of cases, miracles don’t just appear out of thin air. Miracles Are Made.

You’ve heard the miracle stories. I’ve lived through more than one myself. They’re REAL.

There’s the story of my mom.

Treat Us Righters know this story. She was told she had six months to live with terminal liver cancer. She lived 27 more years–and it wasn’t cancer that led to her passing. Miracle.

There’s the story of my son.

Severe autism was supposed to define him, confine him, and resign him to life in a long term care facility. His autism symptoms have improved 40%, he lives at home, and even voted in the last election. Miracle.

After one recent episode, a friend, a fellow Treat Us Righter emailed me to tell me about her aunt who overcame a seemingly terminal diagnosis. Miracle.

These incidents are not random. They are not coincidences. It is my belief that they are manufactured.

There is a way to live better with one or more life-changing conditions. The Treat Us Right Podcast is here to show you the way. To illuminate the path. To take you from darkness to light. To share with you how to make a miracle.

The crazy thing is, the healthcare system doesn’t understand how these miracles happen. It sounds insane even saying it. But it’s true. Consider these facts:

Healthcare in the US is a Business

Hospitals make money the more you’re in. They treat their beds like hotel rooms or restaurant tables. They want turnover–and repeat customers. That means, it makes economic sense for hospitals to have you just well enough to stay out for a while, but then have to come back in. Their best customers are repeat customers.

And think about this: when was the last time a pharmaceutical company actually came up with a CURE for a condition or disease? There are few cures, but many treatments. And the treatments are ones you have to take (and pay for) for the rest of your life.

You have to think of healthcare like any other industry. There are people in it to make money. This sounds cynical, right? Doctors take an oath–to first do no harm. And they are noble for it. But doctors are also well compensated for the high value work they do. In fact, there are fewer people going to medical school nowadays because doctors make less money than they did in the past. People have to get paid for their work. Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are no different. And they’re all getting squeezed.

And now let’s talk about the insurance companies. They used to pay for everything as long as your premiums were paid. Now you have co-pays and deductibles that push costs on to you. You have insurance companies being sued because they have automated systems that reject your claims without a doctor’s formal review, just to save money. Insurance companies manage the risk of having to pay claims in order to maximize profitability.

With all that said, how can we live our best lives? Remember the full titles from episodes 1-3? Do you care / enough to live / your best life? If so, then Treat Us Right is for you. Let’s move beyond the practice of the healthcare INDUSTRY, and make the DELIVERY of healthcare work for US. So we achieve our goals. So we live our best lives.

3 Truths You Must Know

Miracles Don’t Just Happen

The word miracle itself implies that an outcome occurs without any work. Good fortune befalls the beneficiary from divine providence. Unlike the resurrection on the third day, modern miracles don’t just happen. People work hard for their outcomes, for their success. Outsiders consider these outcomes as miracles because they saw the before and the after. They never see the work that makes up the middle.

Doctors Are Humans

They make mistakes. They have experiences and evidence that somewhat pre-ordains an outcome given certain circumstances. We all depend on our experiences in assessing our prognoses, our futures. But in health, we are, each of us, unique. And our power comes from within.

Healthcare Isn’t Fair

Like many other institutions in the US, healthcare isn’t fair. It’s not equal. The inequities in healthcare became mainstream during Covid. The more money you have, the better care you can afford. There is a baseline, Medicaid for the poor and disabled–and Medicare for seniors. But not for everyone like most industrialized nations. Our health outcomes in the US rank LAST among developed nations. But you don’t have to have money to make a miracle–it does make things easier, though.

How To Make a Miracle

The method to miracles.

Know yourself deeply.

Triggers of joy and pain
Your data and numbers
Know what you want - the outcome. The result

Dedicate Your Life to the Outcome

Get the behaviors - know what you have to do
Make the behaviors routine
Be persistent, be persistent

Visualize the Outcome

See it every single day
Meditate on it
Visualize what your life is like after the miracle

What are you doing? You’re bending the world to your will. You’re bending everything to your desired outcome. When you persist, you see results.

Persistence is a theme in Treat Us Right. Stay on it.

I’m not saying miracles are common. People wouldn’t call them miracles if they were. What I am saying is that if you want a miracle, you have to work for it. There is a roadmap, though and there is enough evidence out there that you CAN make your miracle–if you work for it.

Thoughts or questions? Email me directly at david AT carethree DOT COM.

Treat Us Right PodcastDavid WilliamsMay 20, 2024