It's David Hoffman, filmmaker with another clip from one of my old films.

In this case, we're looking at a nurse practitioner who has her own little shop in a poor area of Appalachia.

I really care about nurses and nursing, in part because my daughter is a nurse practitioner in San Francisco and also because I've had a couple of major medical shit in my life, and nurses were glorious to me the way they treated me.

Beautiful.

So I get this job to do something on nursing for a friend of mine, Mike Singer, who owns a company called Cherokee Uniforms that makes nursing uniforms.

And he gives me a grant to make what you're about to see, and I send my daughter on a terrific filmmaker, John Barrett, out to the middle of Appalachia to record Mon accounts one day in her life.

The way she treats these people, who are pretty sick by and large, who are poor and have hard times, I feel for them.

I feel for Americans, really, for all people who live with poverty and fear of medicine and medical crap.

I wish I didn't have any but we all do, don't we?

So watch Mona counts one day, just the life She lives as a nurse practitioner and then see what you feel about her and about nursing in general way are medically underserved area which is referred to as an emu A.

We're in a hips of which is a health professional shortage area.

And we have an extremely poor economic base.

And many of the patients we serve our poverty level health in Appalachia.

Its function not just absence of disease.

I think that's a very different kind of concept to deal with in what you see in maybe larger metropolitan areas.

What you think?

I think not not come here because of money.

Oh, no.

You can't wait that long to come in for that because that I We had this conversation once before, right?

You know, still.

Okay.

So you don't have the money, you come down, you can clean.

What do you want?

Your beer.

Oh, wait, That's right.

All right, well, I'm gonna go call lab and see what they have to say about that.

You have insurance now?

No, She hadn't had insurance for everyone.

It's a bill anyway, so years.

Yeah, but when we're doing the indigent, we're asking them.

Thio, pick up the other half.

Swallow.

Hey, can't wait that long between times.

Come on now.

I'm always on seven days a week.

That's good.

You're the primary caretaker, John.

I had Hey, I want to ask you something.

Maybe you might tell me.

No, my daughter and I wouldn't be what you call a guy if you mean her denial.

Okay, Which we are, remember?

Yeah.

The power of attorney or the executor of your you have to have him is on a must.

It's a good idea.

I don't know.

You were You were gonna call me with the bank lady's name and I was gonna help you do that.

Remember?

Do you have somebody appointed to speak for you?

I would not have attorneys.

I hated my No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I'm not a lawyer.

No, I'll do it myself.

What?

Can't Miss Rock.

See you sleeping already?

What happened?

I just started.

Not bad.

We'll breed.

That brought me.

And here My daughter's did okay.

Were you living with You don't know my daughter.

This is what the third time this year you've been in.

Okay, we're back to the beginning.

Where were you born?

Uh, rule town called Booth at home or in the hospital?

Home?

Home?

Okay.

Any stories about your birth?

It'll No.

They didn't have to put you in a shoebox or know anything like that.

Okay.

And I'll support fractured cat story.

Why not six months old, Doctor.

Give me up for dead.

Dr.

Talbert.

I know you've never heard.

Of course, it's been years ago and hey, they mail bed, get gave me poison.

Tell my mom about 24 hours after you give me my Madison that I would live and I live.

Oh, God.

Given poison killed courts.

What did you get into Fletcher's cast story?

Back that town.

That stuff.

It was poured poison.

A lot of Children at six months.

How'd you get it?

But I'll give it to me.

He didn't know that it was bad.

Okay.

And how far did you get to go in school?

Sixth grade.

And then what?

You do transfer with a white boy.

But I quit.

And then what did you do?

They put you work on the farm?

Yeah.

And what were you doing?

Mostly.

My dad was cold.

Would cut wood kind cold all I have.

And then what else do you get into?

So tell honored this loneliness.

Good.

We didn't give it up when you got older digit.

Okay.

Good.

When you were cutting co.

We're doing one of those little cold mind things.

Yes.

Okay.

What All illnesses have you had?

Well, I had a heart attack.

Had six drugs on.

I have a great hits back.

Yeah, I have a couple.

Three also are also way.

Call them.

Earn it What?

They've been talking out yet.

But that's geared to Cameron Longs.

Okay, that's better.

Yeah, right.

Did you ever smoke?

Yes, ma'am.

How much?

How about two packs a day?

Process of Well, start off about tan.

Still with Morgan.

You're still spoken down?

Yes, ma'am.

Two packs a day.

Yes, ma'am.

Would you like me to get your patch while you're in here?

I can't afford a baby now.

Well, no.

You have Medicare, right?

If it's one of the medicines you take while you're hospitalized, I think they will allow it.

Okay.

How far?

Okay, because it will.

When I admitted Roxy into the hospital.

I was extremely evident.

That rocks Iwas not feeling like Roxy that she probably was in pretty bad trouble at this point in time.

Usually, Roxy, even with her exacerbations of her COPD is still feisty and won't, you know, just gives everybody what for when she comes in And that type of things.

She's, uh but she was relatively quiet.

I mean, she was responsive in that kind of.

It's gonna be a harder recovery period, I think this time for have a seat.

Terrible.

Tell money you're ready to see her.

See, I washed a good friend of mine, go with Alzheimer's.

I helped take care of him.

His wife passed away and that, you know, and I forget a lot.

So naturally I'm concerned.

But I want to go through these tests because this could be just the beginning.

You know that what we do with these things as we do it once a year, some of them you'll remember some of me won't someone you don't care whether you remember or not.

And it's just, uh, make sure that we're keeping you healthy and that we don't miss something just because we know you right.

All right, all right.

Where What is the season?

Well, I wouldn't say it's beginning of the falsies.

Okay.

See, on TV the other day, they're talking about gasoline.

Generally, the fourth of September starts the fall season because people who had trapped okay and gas is gonna go down, maybe.

Okay.

And you know the date.

Uh huh.

5th 5th of September.

And what day is it?

Friday.

Where are we right now?

Where?

In your clinic?

In a room.

In your clinic.

Okay.

In what town?

Matt Morris.

Okay, this is a pen.

A light in the sink.

Okay.

What is this fan?

I like gonna sink.

Okay, now, remember those for me?

Okay?

Can you spell world backwards?

Lousy D l, uh w I missed my thing.

It's okay.

What were the three objects that I gave you before?

Pan lamp and a sink.

Repeat after me.

No ifs, ands or buts.

No ifs, ands or buts.

Guess what I think you're doing awfully well.

Write a sentence.

Any sentence right along there.

Uh, see, that's what I do.

Memory.

I forgot.

I knew how to stand me when I start right now.

Okay.

See what I did there.

I knew how to spell that.

All right, that I misspelled it there.

Sorry.

Now, if I go real slow, that could probably spell.

But I'm forgetting how to spell simple words.

That means you're getting smarter in.

Yes.

What were the three objects I gave you before?

Table pin?

It was sick.

And you are on the scale.

Save the scales.

Yes.

The full steam.

The highest scores.

30.

You were 29.

When you drop 27 to 30 is very normal.

You know, you really don't have the memory loss that would be associated with Alzheimer's.

Thank God for that.

Okay, The fear of losing one's mental capabilities is very great answer.

As you have felt for the last week.

His fear is what is mobilizing right now.

He's on the moderate side of depressed, though.

And part of that, I think, is related to Hiss.

Fear that he's having that He does not want to lose his mind.

Is it Alzheimer's?

I don't think it is.

I think the more you get involved, stay involved.

You're gonna have less fear that you're getting Alzheimer's.

It's not necessarily meaning.

You have dimension the skills that you want to keep.

You gotta keep using You know, the old adage.

Use it or lose it.

You want to keep your thinking kinds of stuff.

Keep using it.

That happens in our guts.

It happens in our heads.

It happens in her eyes.

You were by vocals, right?

Right.

That's from the relax ation.

It's not as tortures.

Waas.

My mother used to say that my eyes are fine.

My arms aren't long enough.

Yeah, she cares about her patients.

So you don't You're not a statistic to her.

So how long were you actually in the hospital?

From Cider Data For the next Thursday Come home room now.

Days you haven't had any chest pain?

No.

No blood pressure's good hearts.