So a couple days after they first talked about it, Justin brought a rolled up baggie of marijuana to school for Naomi. And when we talked about it, Kurt's best explanation for that was--. And I left. They sang in the choir at the Methodist church. That's one of the reasons why we took him off the ER. She goes, no, please take the money. And then on January 3, after they both cried a bit, Kurt moved out for a month. I've known Kristy a few years. And that's what caught me even more. "The cliff is over that hill and then quite a ways to the south," said the most elderly duck. When I was a kid, I had a dog. And she started collecting stuff that she knew that he would like. They talk a few times a week. Our conversation consisted largely of, Anne, tell me what you did wrong. They watched all the other ducks flee homeward. And this question mark hangs over the whole thing. Oh, of course. And I remember, we were sitting in the living room and it was October. And when I called Winkler Memorial, they suggested I talk to the new board president, Stefanie Haley. Yes. Next. Three dates makes a relationship. "I know," said the duck, "you think I'm crazy. (5 minutes). I'm just going to give you a moment here to guess which of these two groups of people, the ones who go along and the ones who don't go along, are now sitting judges in Chicago. And then we're still arguing about it. Maybe it was my fault. And he said that was the only way he could get off vertical patrol. I do have a theory now. It was a felony charge. They went to classes. Debby Eggers was at the clinic when the man came in for a follow-up. The place was so bad that they had to actually put an officer every second floor, and they called that vertical patrol. I mean, me, I love that. We want judges who will sit on the bench and when they see a working guy come in there, be able to identify them and be fair to them. They sleep around. It's the kind of town where tumbleweed really does roll down the main drag in the afternoons. Eight months later, he was found. They need to realize they can't be doing this. She's a cop. He loves Andre. He's been fined $5,000 for retaliating against the nurses, and he has a year to answer their questions about his old cases if he's going to have restrictions removed from his medical license. Since the whole point of this story is you're trying to sleep with--. And be like, oh, man, what am I doing? I know I had reservations about Jake, instincts, which is why I read the journal. Of like women picking me up, I had never experienced that before. Act Two, Donkey See, Donkey Do. Justin says he was just trying to seem cool to impress her. One of these boards was a peer review service for rural hospitals provided by Texas A&M University. You have to question why somebody at that age, at that time in their life, would want to come to a small town like Kermit, Texas. Yes. It was standard practice for rural hospitals across the state, and the way it had worked at Winkler for years. Music help from Damien Graef and Rob Geddis. I love you. he said. You're not going to turn down the person that you want to be with. But he said after they hit a number of them, he was handed a white envelope by his training officer, and he said, here's yours. It's almost like the relationship had an expiration date, but we didn't know about it. Because you knew that he doesn't want to see you, so you don't want to be calling him. So when the Texas Medical Board sent Arafiles a letter telling him they had received a complaint about him and he was under investigation, he went to Sheriff Roberts and said he was being harassed. They were egregious. Get This American Life a Day Early in New York Times Audio. She said, no, because it sounds crazy. I was good. I love you more than the fish in the river. And you have to wonder why a man in his 50's is not established somewhere. I'll take it myself. He says she even let him kiss her on the cheek. "Like a stone." She speaks with more than a hint of a Texas accent. You don't need the labs. She didn't want to bother him. Because they get up, they speak very briefly. They're more conscious of how this looks in the public arena. And that's the weird thing. And he reacted like a 15-year-old. barstool, ?] He's pretty much what comes to mind when you hear the words, "West Texas Sheriff." I can't point to something that was bad about our relationship. She says he just took the money without prompting. The girl duck went and swan around in circles. I told her about my whole life story, about my parents. And in all of the ways that we think of what makes for a good relationship, I think that they were doing better than you, or me, or most people. I told him I wasn't going just because, since this is not where I spent the last three years of high school, I didn't really want to go to the prom. It is their job to turn out the votes for the Democrats on Election Day. Anne says she and Naomi and Vicki had long conversations about what to do. So it attracted me even more. We were always like the most solid of all the relationships of our friends and everything like that. And then, all the ducks began to turn for home. At least, let the jury decide Anne's case. Spending time outside Chicago. So therefore, I was just like, OK, everything's good. "Life itself?" He admits he used the nurse's complaint to the TMB to investigate them, which the TMB says is illegal. It's different. Here's Anne. I started writing his number on bathroom walls across the United States. They say, I've got good ratings from the bar groups. But Roberts still didn't have any solid evidence to connect them to the complaint. Kurt says he would not want to do a rumspringa again. But it isn't just a rock. Taking this step was illegal. Including phone pranks. So I don't think she went over really well with the good ol' boys. I think I can help. And even though Naomi had signed her letter, he never investigated her. You know what I mean? This is Debby Eggers, a nurse who worked directly with Arafiles. He says she kept asking him to sell her marijuana. I now actually felt bad about what I'd done. And back in the early 1970s, he was investigating organized crime and police corruption in Chicago for the FBI. Everyone in town says that Naomi was so beloved that there was no way they'd go after her. When Mark was 15, his father was shot. It seemed like he was going to give this small town exactly the sort of small town doctor they'd always wanted. The nurses complained about Arafiles to the chief of staff, Dr. Pham. "It's OK," said the girl duck, waddling out from behind the tree. Every time we discussed it, he bought a house here. Listen to This American Life on Spotify. It really did feel like having experiences like I would imagine I would have had as a teenager. Just so you could just shut up, I'll take the money. I was told not to raise money and not to do any campaigning. WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a 1978 law intended to end the mass removal of Native American children from their homes, declining to assess whether the law . a seamstress. But they go ahead with the show and let people get up and speak their piece. And I feel-- to this day I feel-- I feel horrible about that. And it dove down, and then coasted up. Samantha Broun interviews her mom about surviving a brutal attack by Reginald McFadden 20 years ago, and sets out to interview friends, family and policymakers about how that attack changed Pennsylvania law regarding life sentences at the time. All of this built up, inevitably, to Justin asking Naomi to prom. But the things that she did that I thought made her a real student was that she would sleep in class. For hours, and then for days. Our last year, I don't know where we're going to be after this. This is the stuff you keep on your bedside table. We traveled well together. It was a large rock, about the size of a duck actually, that was situated off the bank of the river, a little past the old elm. She thought long and hard. All have pled guilty to charges ranging from selling cocaine and pills to bringing weapons on school property. Little stuff like that makes people bond together. But nurses say Arafiles had his own way of doing things. Three women in three days? "And it will take some time. And we brought it to the park, the way we had always used to do on Saturdays. Can we go? I'm from New York, this and that. She has no idea. So it stretched on an hour. We had no documentation, no labs, or anything in our chart justifying that this patient was even diabetic. He's a super nice guy. In 2008, he turned professional and began . And yeah, I'd need medicine, because I've got all the symptoms. He went up to each of his relatives, to anybody who'd listen actually, and he declared, someday, when he grows up, he would become a pro football player, and he would find the men who shot his father. Reporter Saul Elbein found that a group of powerful men in Kermit went to extreme and sometimes ridiculous lengths to try to bring down these nurses. One of the nearest towns is called Notrees. She kept paddling around in circles, thinking about the rock, and the duck, and his heart that might break. Roberts and his wife sold the herbal supplement, Zrii, for the Doctor. It's such a truism that Irish names win Chicago judicial elections that candidates will actually add a Fitzgerald to their name, which sadly works. Not that that stops them, he says, from still doing things like Abdon saw them do in 2009, putting in the well-connected Pamela Hill Veal onto the ticket for appellate judge despite a bad bar association rating. OK. She put her purse on top of my desk. When you come to an area like west Texas, there's a certain culture here. But in July, a month after they were indicted, Tidwell made their lawyer, John Cook, an offer. After four months, it went suddenly, unexpectedly cold. The sheriff and the doctor played golf together. That was increasingly difficult. And I've been here. He had samples that he gave in the clinic. Can I ask you to just tell the story of why? And she goes, no, just take the money. Both he and Anne say that the initial conversation was a little awkward. I talked to the girlfriend who did not want to come on the radio. And number four was break up with Liz. And then, after three dates, would just abruptly end it, with no explanation whatsoever. 737: The Daily - This American Life She asked me if I smoked. That they was having problems in New York, so they came over here to Florida to settle down, to have a better life. And he would score it, and depending on your score, he would put you on thyroid medicine. He's a [? And so, he told me he would give me some references. And a violation of the hospital's policies. There she worked on several shows including The Nod, Undone and StartUp. So next, he got a list of 21 people who would have had access to the patient records. So I'm like, this is awesome. What to do? Yeah, I'm having hard troubles with this person right here. Anne and Vicki had to split that, and that's before attorney's fees and taxes. No, I don't have it at the moment right now. Obviously, he didn't believe me when I said that. She was about 5' 4", black straight hair, light-skinned. Someone who, in trying to play down their drinking, has no idea that everything they're saying is screaming I'm an alcoholic. And they made out a little bit. They have to choose among several politically connected candidates for a few slots. And I knew her for six hours. In the way that, say, I couldn't tell you when I last had red potatoes. And I was the fourth on the list? She doesn't play the southern belle. It would be like, Justin, stop talking. Like, there's no code of silence. Like I'm seeing, this is all your stuff. It's a different feeling that you get for a female than you would when you have your home boy or a guy come up to you and ask you a question like that. You put that into another container where you're going to mix the syrup for the soda. You don't roll in and say what you think, especially to a lot of men. You're not supposed to run if you're not slated. It was yeah, totally turned my head around. The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar. Scouting help from Elna Baker. Demacopoulos, when you translate that, literally, in ancient Greek, it means son of a Democrat. Not at all. Anne and Vicki started getting reports that Arafiles was performing surgeries, and that was odd for two reasons. No disrespect or anything. She was a bartender. My issue was patient care. It's the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the . So we were in class. But, quote, "That openness probably just made him more appealing to the ladies.". It wasn't like I was 80 years old, and I had like the world's saggiest ones. Stories of everyday people, based on the award-winning public radio show. In any case, with Tidwell's help, Sheriff Roberts got a warrant to seize Anne and Vicki's computers. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. But things were quickly, well, better than that. They worked in teams and traded off every 15 minutes. If it was hard just to have sex without emotion entering into it at all. Act One Messing with the Bull Transcript In a small west Texas town called Kermit, two nurses were accused of harassment after they complained to the medical board that a doctor was putting patients in danger. Oh, hey, do you smoke? And I don't want to go to anybody in this school. I could pick a lot of things to demonstrate how ridiculous the trial was. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Arafiles would diagnose patients without running labs. "I love you," the duck was saying. He says now the whole thing seems kind of unbelievable. And this ordinance, was it a pro-civil rights or an anti-civil rights ordinance? Now, remember, Anne and Vicki's letter was anonymous, but they didn't work too hard to conceal their identities. When her boyfriend dumped her, she wanted to do something. She didn't know what to say. Justin took a plea deal, three years probation in exchange for pleading guilty to the felony charge. And it also spread sideways. I really want my man back. And I was like, what kind of person says that about someone? He said he wanted to make something out of his life. Everyone joined in, even though they laughed, for ducks are all brothers when it comes right down to it. He was terrified. She went and woke up the strange duck. I'll let you know when you can resume. Debby says he brought in this questionnaire. So I have a tendency to be a-- my wife tells me, you're not in the courtroom. That I thought for even one single second about right and wrong. We had blown them out of the water so hard. Self-delusion is in my bones. Host: Ira Glass. And then when you turn 18, you decide whether or not you come back to the fold. He was involved in a prior incident in Odessa. "I love a thing that can not speak, can not move, can not-- I don't even know how it feels about me.". And it was her job to ensure the new doctors met the hospital's criteria. Or anything like that. In the early stages of this, my thought process was, wow, it appears as though these guys are going to get away with this. All Episodes Available. That really didn't work out. The second time we met, he asked me to his house for a margarita. They estimate a 40-year shelf-life for 750-milliliter (25-ounce) bottles, and 82 and 132 years for 1.5-liter (50-ounce) and 3-liter (101-ounce) bottles, respectively. It's a special Valentine's Day edition of our show, "What I Did For Love." The New York Times has officially launched its new audio app for iOS New York Times Audio and we're on there in a big way. But Roberts was missing his main piece of evidence, the actual letter the nurses had sent to the TMB. I was like, wow, I'm such a great dude. Re "Daniel Ellsberg, 1931-2023: Whistleblower Who Unveiled U.S. Deceit in Pentagon Papers" (obituary, front page, June 17): Thank you for the excellent obituary recounting the life, career and . "It fell.". But at the end of seven years, it ends. You think it's just a rock. This American Life - Google Podcasts It's OK. Just have it. According to press accounts, Tidwell was a client, and he threw parties with prostitutes for some of his firm's clients. The girlfriend told me that she, meanwhile, is having escapades of her own. Anne had spent 30 years as a nurse, 20 of them at Winkler, working her way up. These are party officials. And after she gave me the OK, yeah, around the more of a yes side, I was OK. I told him I could not follow that type of care without some sort of a medical reference to support it. And she just kind of like looked at me and thought for a second. He reported a version of this story for The Texas Observer. And that was it. Jen Berman's filling in as our west coast producer. I got a text back saying, "Don't run, Jeanne. And was like, huggy. She had known the strange duck for a long time and had always found him to be a good and decent bird. She's the author of the memoir, Fiction Ruined My Family. On Friday, March 17, sixth graders took part in an interdisciplinary project titled "This American Life" where they transformed into adults with jobs, budgets and rent or mortgage payments. I'm Ira Glass. And this was a rule that he made for himself, that he was always going to be honest with any woman that he met during this month. Our program was produced today by Sarah Koenig, with Alex Blumberg, Ben Calhoun, Jane Feltes, Jonathan Menjivar, Lisa Pollak, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp, and Nancy Updike. 2 pints of lime juice, an ounce of vanilla, 1 and 1/2 ounces of caramel coloring. And so, when they don't hear that, when a guy actually gives his credentials, what happens? Even if that place was different than they intended when they began the whole thing. And he brought this woman back on the first date. And I don't want to snoop anymore. He was a toy poodle. Town Criers-- in Denton, Texas, where she lives. "I know you're in love with the rock. Part of Vicki Galle's job was to send records to this peer review system. Jonathan Goldstein talks to Sven Berger, a juror still hung up over an assignment he servedten years ago. So we sat back there for an hour and we talked about our families. And he looked up at me and said, don't send out any more records. OK. Coming up, love stories between a kid and someone who is not a kid, and a duck and someone who is not a duck. The last time I dated I was in a dorm room. And I think that the county and the hospital really was afraid, maybe, just he would do a frivolous lawsuit. I know I'm taking it good. And they've had some numbers to back that up. You're making me feel bad, now that I'm taking the money from you. And from there he's off and running. I asked her. When I told him I was sober, he said, that's amazing. And I'm weirded out. And she didn't want to regret that. And you would imagine that that would come as a huge shock to me, like hit me hard. At first, anyway. She was mature body-wise, so that caught a lot of people's attention. As a person, he was very friendly, easy to get along with. It's This American Life. I don't associate with that. In my opinion, we were going to deliver substandard care and just cover it up. Stay with us. I loved that part of it so much. A lot of lawyers who want to become a judge and who haven't done their homework, they don't know this is how the game is played. Note to sensitive listeners. And then he wrote, "What's going on with me?" I'm Ira Glass, back next week with more stories of This American Life. The Healing Touch was the subject of a year-long prostitution investigation that resulted in 61 arrests. Yeah, I started writing on bathroom walls, "Ladies, please help me out. And Dr. Pham at one point told me, we've agreed to disagree. She still has feelings, and she just has to act. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. "Things happen when they must," she said, as if it were an extremely meaningful statement. I'm sober a lot of the time too. There were lots of failed attempts to set up a humanitarian corridor. $32.00. 457: What I Did For Love - This American Life The ridiculousness of this was somehow exceedingly charming to me. Now, this last session that I went to in '09, it was very funny. She wouldn't talk to me about any specific cases, or kids at the school, including Justin. What happens when you go into a placein this case a prisonwhere there are all sorts of codes about what you're never supposed to sayand you say every one of them. Well, do you recognize that drawing, Doctor? Oh, hey, my name is Justin, you know. Thank you very much. Don't run? The rock fell to the forest floor and lay there. She wouldn't give me her real name, and only agreed to a phone interview if her supervising sergeant could listen in. And in fact, Arafiles admits, on the stand, to the questionable medical practices that Anne and Vicki wrote to the TMB about. And he goes home with her. The next part of that conversation was the logistics. So Roberts has Anne and Vicki's letter. But Naomi says there was something about Anne that stood out. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Anne and Vicki left theirs anonymous. They were accused of harassing a doctor. We were each other's world. In 2007, the Texas Medical Board investigated Arafiles when he was working at a hospital in Victoria, Texas. He was just muddling about how to figure out how to do that. It's hard for me to get drugs at all. Well, Kurt called this woman that he knew just a little bit and had a date on the very first or second night. HeartCode blended learning delivers quality resuscitation education regardless of where providers are located and gives them more control to complete the course at their own pace. But then she kind of commits the faux pas of saying, I did run five years ago for judge. You know, you think of an old boys' network as being sort of shadowy and sinister, but there's something-- like, reading your accounts-- there's something sort of goofy about this. The duck sighed and sat down on the ground. Finally, in May, the police did a big sweep. Opinion | Does Justice Alito Hear Himself? - The New York Times They even took the state's standardized test, the FCAT. That night, the girl duck had a hard time sleeping. Arafiles just took a job there at a hospital in a town called Grand Saline. And the committeemen would say, yeah, that's true. Do you really need her to think you're terrific? Do you sleep a lot? I'm Ira Glass. She says he brought it up first. In far west Texas, we don't have an abundance of people trying to get out here. I was so confused, because it was a bartender. And still thinking, in spite of himself, about Naomi. Justin was one of them. We don't get into relationships with people. $25.00. So we decided to have a rumspringa from our relationship. It was on a day that I was working on his side, and he had signed something that, I believe it was a pharmacy OK-ing some kind of diabetic medication. So 10 minutes passed. What's the next step? In explaining why the letter is anonymous, the last paragraph of the letter states that, quote, "Due to the economic climate, the fact that I am over 50, female, and have been employed by this facility since the 1980s, I am hesitant to place a signature on this information.". Stay with us. a seamstress. We have arrived at Act Two of our program. Do you get tired? So you would come with your patient care concerns and Wiley would say, he bought a house? There's a singer/songwriter on my lawn. The one way that the Chicago Party Judicial candidates lack diversity, he says, is that there's still nobody on it without clout. She said she was from Queens. It turns out, it's really difficult to all of a sudden become single at 31 when you've never been single for your entire life. That I thought I was going to-- I asked him once if I should start over. It's too intense. She didn't seem to gossip or play games. He probably called his own mother Fox. And already our image was terribly tarnished. You know, prom was coming up. Yeah, but it isn't that these guys are showing such loyalty to the working man. An important point to make is, there are some very good judges in Cook County. I texted him what I had done, and said I would get my things later. Because, they say, the Democratic Party so dominates the choosing of judges here that verdicts are lopsided against businesses. My first impression of him was that he was a little silly, like a lot of men in Los Angeles are. Yes. They smile and say, thank you very much. Well, today on our radio program, we hear people try all kinds of things, work hard in all kinds of ways for love. I was just like, oh, man, you know? You describe a wannabe candidate, Denise Staniec, who's the former head of the Women's Bar in Illinois, get up before the committeemen. "I think the old duck is crazy. Anyone in New York City I feel like can have sex any night of the week if they just follow two rules, which is stay at the bar until 4:00 in the morning and dramatically lower your standards. Because I think you get to choose and I think it would make the relationship stronger. And Murray knew this was going to be his political death sentence. The next time I saw it, it was black, hard like charcoal, and I couldn't see any blood supply or anything. This is one area where lots of people will just vote for whoever the party recommends. Oh, that sounds nice. Grand Saline, like Kermit, needs doctors. And then, all of a sudden, we came up with this really complicated, crazy plan to put the test on it at the right place where it would break. Kermit's a tiny, dusty oil town out in the west Texas plains, about 20 miles from the New Mexico border. The following morning, I drove to a house in the country for Thanksgiving with my sister, and her husband, and two kids, and a bunch of old friends. And definitely, people would yell at me and call me names. Podcasts & Shows Expand/collapse submenu for Podcasts & Shows. And I was like, OK, we're going to wait a few. And there was no need. Trevor Aaronson, whom Sam Black interviewed for this story, has a book called. When, in fact, I should have realized, I'm leaving. And we're hanging out. He's very charismatic. ", "How can it go on like this?" Some of what I read was so gross, there were unsavory details that I haven't talked about here. I'm working out here in a hostile environment. The hospital could only keep two to three doctors on staff at a time. Because I liked the girl. He never even talked to her about it. barstool, ?] So he flew back to the States, stayed at their old apartment. One, Winkler Memorial didn't do surgeries. I knew that if Mr. Wiley found out that we had sent that letter in that he would do everything he could to fire us from our positions. But again, I let it ride because he worked in the fox industry, and had done a lot of drugs, and was pushing 50. They both said, it was just obvious the experiment hadn't run its course. She hadn't meant to pipe up. This was back when she was about 24 and dating this musician. Ira Glass. Reporter Nancy Updike spends two days with Neal Smither, who cleans up crime scenes for a living,and comes away wanting to open his Los Angeles franchise, despite the gore or maybe because ofit. How can she do this? You know, what's surprising isn't that this happens, that committeemen are choosing judges based on connections and politics, but that everyone is so open about it. So let me just step up, and be a man, and do what I got to do. The nurses were fired and then arrested, facing ten years in prison. And he'd look you right in the eye and he'd say, good point, good point. So she wrote him a letter every day that she did not send. And it's like, buy new guitar picks, get air conditioner fixed, call Grandma on her birthday, or something. She was told, OK, be a little bit more discreet next time. Sheriff Roberts campaigned for him. And immediately she said, she's not crazy, John. And so, Scott Tidwell talks about how he golfs with the sheriff, how he's also the sheriff's personal attorney, but then denied that there was any sort of conflict of interest or that he was just prosecuting this case because he liked the sheriff.

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