https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RhMNOvHNY&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=2 39-year-old Kira Johnson was a remarkable person. She could speak five languages, had raced cars, possessed a pilot’s license and even skydived as a...

At the peak of her nursing career, Dana Stinson was permanently disabled by a disastrous surgery and the doctor's subsequent attempt to cover up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjLvnWYfnzA&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=31 When Daniela was diagnosed with the flu at an urgent care appointment in a trusted Kaiser hospital, her parents could never have imagined that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybPO2HIfhiQ Around their Fresno neighborhood, Daphne McClendon-Ricks was known to all the kids simply as “Mom.” She was the shoulder to lean on, the unbreakable...

Debra Watkins specializes in communications. She believes in helping others and has devoted herself to building coalitions to help the homeless and veterans. When...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wfVoEqLLo&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=4 Demi Dominguez was just about to graduate from Cal State Bakersfield with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.  Her plan was to go to graduate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR3s3tNA_Ww In 2007, Diane Stewart received two knee replacements because of injuries she sustained in a car crash when she was younger. After the operation,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnnhnID1NE&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=19 After forty years of marriage, Don and Jill Stegman had it all—two beautiful children, a stable relationship, fulfilling careers. But a blood cancer led...

He was a father of two with a new RN certification.  But without warning, Doug Shelby found himself in a medical emergency.  Late one night...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs_LynP25RQ&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=27 Elizabeth Brown was not a typical teenager. An exceptional student, she left home at fifteen to start college early. She made the dean’s list and even earned an opportunity to study abroad at Oxford University.  She was also a talented musician. She...

Elizabeth Nicks was a 12-year-old cheerleader. One day, during an aerial move, she fell to the ground when her fellow cheerleaders lost their grip....

The pain began in Gary Rushford's foot and slowly slithered up to his heel, then his calf and then his thigh. It moved with...

As told by Harry Jordan:I was brought into surgery at Long Beach Hospital (where I was a Board Trustee) in late 1982 when x-rays...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbB-23A9mdo&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=22 Holly Harris enjoyed a career in social services and healthcare as a staff trainer for a child abuse prevention agency in San Diego. She...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AtW2WO3iKM Janet Garner's routine spleen removal surgery was completed without incident.  After recovery, she left the hospital relieved, thinking that her medical woes had been taken care...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcaQfzxJJ4Q&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=25 Jennifer Ha was a Vietnamese refugee and the matriarch of her thirteen-person household. She had orchestrated her family’s escape from Vietnam. At 38, she...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4OQlvxheJQ&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=36 A few days before Halloween, 7-year-old Jessie Geyer began to feel lousy. She had a high fever and severe leg pain. It was bad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qla2qBNdIOw&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=32 Joe Allen is a U.S. Army veteran who proudly served our country as a Specialist/Combat Engineer in the Kosovo conflict. In civilian terms, Joe...

Just before Christmas two years ago, John Enzenauer, 39, came home from his blue-collar job feeling lousy. He didn't worry much about it: Just...

Although he was a gifted athlete who excelled at basketball, John Ritchie suffered  from a heart condition for over a decade. Midway through his thirties,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL1FLbHer1E&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=9 Jordan Perez’s love for softball began at four years old. She played for Riverside Girls Softball Association where she was a two-time All Star....

Jose Figueroa Jr. was the youngest of three children. His big sisters adored him. He loved to go with his parents and sisters to...

Katy Williams had just turned nineteen and was about to graduate from high school. She was looking forward to college in the fall and...

In July of 2000, Kay Marchioni, a second grade and pre-school teacher in Chicago, beat cancer at the age of 56. She decided to do...

Evan Kennedy, his father says, was not a foolhardy man. He knew he had an inherited heart problem, so when he decided to train...

Due to a health care change by her employer, Anh Kim Goodson was forced into the Kaiser Permanente system on December 1, 2011. She continued...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FrUpWxRVDY&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=20 With  regular prenatal visits and no morning sickness, weight gain, or complications, Kimberly had no reason to expect any issues during the delivery of...

She would be an adult now if not for medical negligence. Back in the winter of 2002, Leah Coufal was the love of her...

Beth Stover, 40, was past her due date when she went in for a stress test to determine whether to induce labor.  A technician...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJc3aWZOG9I&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=21 At 87 years old, Lena Wilson lived a vibrant life. She went on walks with her son Mark every day, often stopping at the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpM6GzMpwg&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=5 Lloyd Monserratt was a UCLA grad, a rising star in California politics, a Latino Vote Director for the DCCC, a Director at NALEO, a...

Lorraine Cano was living a joyful life as a vibrant senior.  She  devotedly walked  her two little chihuahuas at the park  every day.  She ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgJyzXmx810&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=8 Demi Dominguez and Xavier De Leon were engaged and enjoying their lives when a little surprise came: Demi announced that she was pregnant. Xavier...

Two-year-old Malyia Jeffers had an ever-rising fever and unexpected bruising around her cheeks. Her parents rushed her to a Sacramento emergency room, where they waited for...

Mara Douglas was a devout Catholic, admired in her community for her selflessness and generosity of spirit. After raising three children of her own,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ5zBvL5FYU Mario Guzman was a very successful design engineer by day. He designed hardware for semiconductors.   He earned his Master of Science degree in Computer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOYo8B_D68o&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=50 Alejandra Gonzalez took her six-week old infant, Mia, to medical providers four times in eight days. A mother of three, Alejandra knew when one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9mNvsM4ElM&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=3 On February 2, 2014, Bree and Nelson Moreno were thrilled to welcome their baby girl Mia into the world. It had been a good...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MpacmEeof4&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=13 Mike and Carol Bradley were happily married for 46 years. At age 72, Mike was still working full time as a car salesman. He...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v3tFHGn8SA&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=26 Misty Parker is a nurse and an educator. Misty led a very active, normal life. She lifted weights and took care of herself because...

Morgan Westhoff and her identical twin sister were each born with a common congenital heart defect.  At 18 months old, Morgan’s twin had a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGu3rqi-i0&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=17 Jamie Maraviglia’s pregnancy and delivery with her daughter Naya was fairly routine and uneventful. After Naya’s birth, Jamie and her husband Dan were excited...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Acv5O5LubA&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=29 Nina Hebert leads a busy career in addition to raising her three children. The Air Force recently relocated her family to California.  She lives with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV2bQFlHG0I&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=14 Nora Bostrom had pulmonary hypertension that required her to use oxygen and take intravenous medications. Despite these challenges, she had a high quality of...

Olivia Cull was born with a condition in which one side of her heart was smaller than the other.  As an infant, she had...

In October 2009, Patricia Roland of Thousand Oaks underwent heart surgery at age 57 to replace her mitral valve, which helps regulate the flow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3JUBWxOQRo He was a surfer, doing what he loved best: riding the California waves. The swell was up one day in 2004 off Half Moon...

Pauline Tavares, 79, was admitted to a hospital with encephalitis and was given medication to control her anxiety.  The next morning, a nurse fed...

Quin Murphy, 16, was a soccer fanatic with a family who supported him, coached him, and even went on trips with him to watch his favorite...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMSZb1pnSa0 He was the one who consoled countless victims of crime and disaster, a fire and police chaplain well known in San Diego.  Even after...

As told by his wife, Jackie Williams:My spouse Raymond Williams passed at (Sacramento) Mercy Hospital in January 1994. He had been prescribed the wrong...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGRinVzgn-k&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=11 Richard Johnson was a natural with computers. At 23, he was a talented software specialist and planned to relocate to Texas to move up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkX6q6jzXlk&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=24 Robert Downey worked alongside his wife at the elder care business they ran together. He was honorably discharged from the army after serving six...

After talking to a neurosurgeon about her history of migraine headaches, Robyn Frankel was told to undergo an invasive cerebral angiogram. This would require the...

Rowan Gibbs had a smile that would light up a room.  He was a happy child with a heart filled with love for his...

HMO doctors, paid through Medicare, failed to provide medical tests to diagnose and treat heart disease in my mother over a two year period....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UguAtku9wo&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=16 Sabrina De la Rosa was a woman who understood her worth. Her mother, Monica, recalls her leaving a job and saying “they just don’t...

Sally Hunter was a homemaker in Pasadena, California, happily married to her loving husband Harold Hunter. But everything changed when Sally's colon cancer was...

A nagging pain in her abdomen sent Shanna Alvarado to a Kaiser hospital in Southern California in October 2010. An ultrasound showed the origins...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfGUPPAyUiY&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=33 Shawn Rial had testicular cancer, the most treatable form of cancer, and a projected 90 percent chance of success through chemotherapy. That’s why his...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLih3ldGF2s&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=10 Shawn Washington II was a mentor to his siblings and summer campers, a talented photographer and musician, and an expecting father. He lived with...

Shelly Gerrans was a homemaker, a loving wife, and a caring mother to three young children. When she needed a hysterectomy, she and her...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu4EWARlae4&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=7 Shilpa Airy was an entrepreneur and research scientist who ran a successful biotech consulting business in San Francisco. She worked with many of the...

Stephen Schaak, an otherwise healthy 51-year-old merchant marine, husband and father of three sons, went to the emergency room exhibiting clear signs of a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRLqZw7Huxc&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=1 It was the kind of accident that could happen to any child at anytime. Like many two year olds, Steven Olsen loved climbing, running and...

Suzan was a registered nurse working at a small hospital in Fresno. After a violent altercation with a patient going through drug withdrawals, she...

Tamara Walter underwent a successful lap-band surgery at an outpatient surgery center, but her recovery was another story. Five hours after Tamara’s surgery, her sister...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7KwHMCBGn8&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=12 Theresa Ginn’s greatest joy was being a mother. She only had one child and they were best friends. She and her daughter Ashley traveled...

For years, California allowed doctors who were arrested for drug and alcohol infractions, including DUIs, to conceal their arrests from patients. Such doctors, even...

In 2009, during his sophomore year of junior college, Tom McLennan fractured his big toe in a kickboxing accident. Usually, big-toe fractures get a...

Cynthia is a Forensic Mental Health Clinician. She works in the mental health field.  She goes into the state hospitals and assesses the mental health of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ZkUmJEKas&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=30 Coletta was a sixth grade teacher and a track coach. She had recently received a degree in film and media arts. Her family and...

Charles Senior moved to California with a music career in mind. He started working at Sony as a supervisor in private security with the intention...

Doctors expected a smooth delivery of Zachary Diecker.  But a series of medical errors driven by negligence, lack of oversight, and incompetence would end his...

Charles Blevins had arthroscopic knee surgery at an outpatient surgical center. Three days later, he went to an emergency room with a fever and...

Celeste  Miranda Ortiz had a dream  to  open  her own hair salon.  Growing up with her grandparents and watching them build their business, Celeste’s dream was to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tU1GSaAdg&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=35 Around the Fresno area, she was something of a minor celebrity, a buoyant teen beating the odds against a rare illness.  Brittany Wilkinson pushed...

Five years ago, Bobbie Jenke was full of life, an active Santa Rosa special education teacher who regularly went to her students' homes, and...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/K3sDFR4atlU Bill Mitchell, a former San Diego City Council member and deputy mayor, is a sophisticated man who thought he knew how to read people....

Aspen Adams was a happy, healthy, energetic baby. But when she was 21 months old, her mother Leah discovered a lump on her belly. She...

Anthony Fossett was a young aspiring musician and a beloved member of his community.  An alumnus of Youth Radio's Core and Bridge program, Anthony...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_a58po7gfc&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=37 Angelica lived in service of others. Before her health began to deteriorate, she was a job coach for people with disabilities. Before that, she...

Angel Villalobos was born with just one heart ventricle instead of two. A series of operations early in life should have fixed the problem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWAIphjC2cQ&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=6 Alex Smick had a wonderful life mapped out for himself. At 20, he was studying to be a surgical technician. He was athletic, played...

Selena Alvarez graduated from high school in 2013. She was working and had just started attending college when she found out that she was...

Alicia Cole was a successful actress in Los Angeles for decades. An LA native, she had spent many years working in the entertainment industry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzsnNmQbCQ&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=18 Adam’s parents finally did find one very good lawyer willing to take the case, if only out of sympathy and outrage. But as they...

https://vimeo.com/385600174 As she walked into the hospital on August 1, 2012, Annette Ramirez was nervous. At age 48, she was about to have the first...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4-yyBnR2KE&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=34