MSNBC Weekend Dayside 07:00 hour anchored by Stone Phillips

NBC ID: AR97N4T0IM | Production Unit: MSNBC Live (Dayside) | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: MNBC-DAY-20000130-0001 | Air Date(s): 01/30/2000 | Event Date(s): 01/30/2000

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Event Date(s): 01/30/2000 | Description: MSNBC 07:00:00 Weekend Magazine anchored by Stone Phillips. 07:05:14 Dissolved shots of a flashing ambulance light; health monitor readout and a rolling shot of road seen. Still of Harwich, Massachusetts resident Bill Galvin seen. Cape Cod Hospital ambulance drives on road. Dissolved shot of a hospital hallway; a health monitor readout and still of heart attack patient Barbara Galvin (Bill Galvin's wife) seen. Still of Bill and Barbara and panning shot of docked boats in Harwich, Massachusetts seen. Still of Barbara dissolved with a telephone off the hook seen. In interview Bill recounts a doctor telling him his wife had gone into cardiac arrest; he responding he wanted Barbara flown to a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and the doctor responding she would not make it out of the hospital. Interview cut with obscured images of an emergency team and equipment. Bill says his wife's head looked like a blue basketball. Color toned shot of hospital waiting room seats and a clock seen. In interview Dr. Richard Zelman says Barbara was clearly having a massive heart attack. Zelman walks down Cape Cod Hospital hallway. Zelman says he was called very quickly to the hospital to treat Barbara. Dissolved shot of Barbara and a operation staff seen. Zelman comments on the immediate treatment Barbara received. Close up on an intravenous bottle and a health monitor seen. Zelman says the vast majority of heart attack patients need to have their arteries opened. Point of view shot of paramedics wheeling patient on gurney and an emergency room entrance seen. Close up on an intravenous tube. Graphic depiction of the human body circulatory system seen. Zelman says 40% to 50% of heart attack patients are candidates for clot buster medications. Still of Barbara and cardiac surgical team in operating room seen. X-ray of catheter inside a human heart and surgeon's hands feeding catheter seen. Graphic depiction of a catheter going through a human and x-ray of a human heart seen. Graphic depiction of an angioplasty procedure seen. Cardiac surgical team and images of a human heart on monitor seen. Bill says he assumed the emergency staff was doing standard procedures when Barbara entered the hospital. Taibbi reports on-camera at hospital. Zelman says he wishes he could have determined what kind of treatment Barbara should have received when she entered the hospital. Close up on Zelman during surgery and Zelman standing with other cardiologists seen. Graphic document titled"The Atlantic C-PORT Trial" and supers"a comparison of primary angioplasty with medical therapy" seen. Close up on changing numbers on a computer screen. Zelman says the only way Barbara Galvin could have received an angioplasty is if the computer decided. Close up on computer screen. Zelman says Barbara was given clot-busting medicine. Graphic health monitor readout imposed over a clock seen. Zelman says Barbara had two cardiac arrests. Close up on health monitor readout seen. Zelman says he has seen patients die under the same circumstances Barbara Galvin was in and he did not want to see that again. Medical evacuation team seen wheeling patient near a helicopter as graphic health monitor readout and still of Barbara is imposed over image. Zelman says Barbara would not have survived a trip to Boston. Zelman says he could not take a risk for everybody. Zelman suits up for surgery. Health monitor readout and close up on Zelman seen. Dissolved image of a clock and a telephone seen. Zelman says he had to contact those who might not have supported his decision to perform an angioplasty. Still of Barbara seen as image of a surgical team appears. Close up on Zelman's face and dissolved images of a health monitor readout and a clock seen. 07:16:37 In interview Dr. Richard Zelman says he and his staff made the decision to perform an angioplasty operation on heart attack patient Barbara Galvin. Zelman suiting up for surgery and standing in operating room seen. X-ray images of Barbara's heart seen. Zelman says the right side of Barbara's heart was receiving no blood. Images of Barbara's heart seen as Zelman in voice over recounts the successful angioplasty operation. Health monitor readout seen. In Boston, Massachusetts; ambulance drives past and camera closes in on sign outside Brigham and Women's Hospital. Still of Barbara imposed with a health monitor readout seen. Still of Barbara and her husband Bill Galvin seen. In interview at her home in Harwich, Massachusetts; Barbara says she woke up at the hospital and wanted to pay some bills. Close up rubber gloved hands holding catheter tube. Barbara stands in kitchen. Barbara says she was concerned with getting her bills paid and admits it sounds silly now. In interview Bill recounts Barbara leaving the hospital. Close up on Zelman wearing surgical mask. Barbara says she told Zelman his was the last face she saw. Bill and Barbara walk outdoors. Slow-motion shot of Zelman in operating room. Close up on computer screen with changing numbers. Barbara says she was not happy to hear a computer was deciding what kind of treatment she would receive. Taibbi chats to Zelman in operating room. X-ray image of a human heart and Zelman and surgical staff in operating room seen. Zelman says he might not have stayed a physician if Barbara died because he failed to perform an operation that could have saved her life. Graphic map of the US with header"States With Cath Labs Without Cardiac Surgery" seen. Graphic documents from"...the American College of Cardiology" and supers seen. Taibbi reports on-camera in operating room. Zelman says Barbara should never have been allowed to get so sick. In interview Boston Medical Center's Alice Jacobs says Barbara could have died and we would be having the opposite conversation as to why the procedure was performed. Jacobs walks down hospital hallway in Boston, Massachusetts. Close up on telephone. Jacbos wears cap and prepares to place surgical mask over her head. Exterior of Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts seen. Close up on catheter being used. Jacobs scrubs her arms. Jacobs says one gets in trouble when passion for a procedure gets ahead of evidence. Jacobs suits up for surgery and surgical team seen in operating room. Health monitor readout and graphic"American College of Cardiology" logo seen. Cardiac surgical team and x-ray image of a heart seen. Jacobs says the higher volume of performed procedures lowers the complications rate. Taibbi reports on-camera as camera pans over to Zelman in operating room. Jacobs says angioplasty requires more studies and time. Zelman says Barbara would not have wanted his staff to go slow when it came to performing the angioplasty procedure that saved her life. Zelman helps to wheel patient into operating room. Level exterior shot of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Cape Cod Hospital information staff members sit in room. Jacbos seen in operation room. Zelman seen in operating room. Jacobs comments on other procedures. Bill and Barbara sit in their Harwich home. Zelman says the ability to treat patients has to be available. Jacobs says in the case of Barbara Galvin, she should have been sent to Boston. Exterior of Cape Cod Hospital. Zelman seen in operating room. Zelman says the staff at his hospital has proved they can make a commitment to the angioplasty procedure. Zelman seen in operating room with others. Bill and Barbara walk outdoors. Barbara says she had no idea physicians were not allowed to do what they felt was the right thing to do. Bill says a surgeon's job is to save lives.

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