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Halifax Health Medical Center reviews: Medical Negligence | PissedConsumer
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Dec 5, 2023
Halifax Health Medical Center review: "...First I was advised that the surgery would take 30 to 45 minutes and the surgery actually took 3 hours. Could this have been due to the surgeon doing a second surgery to try to correct or patch up the mistake from the first surgery? After surgery, I continued to ask for operative notes, and received the runaround for days until I was advised that I would not be able to receive them..." Read the full @HalifaxHealth review on PissedConsumer: https://halifax-health-medical-center.pissedconsumer.com/negligence-we-are-surgeon-and-surgical-team-202306064653336.html #HalifaxHealth #HalifaxHealthMedicalCenter #OnlineReviews #PissedConsumer If you are a company representative and would like to get in touch with this consumer in order to resolve the issue, please let us know: https://www.pissedconsumer.com/contact/business-inquiry.html If you are a pissed consumer and would like to create a similar video and try to resolve your issue, please let us know: https://www.pissedconsumer.com/contact/media-inquiry.html Support PissedConsumer video interview project: https://www.pissedconsumer.com/donate.html š Subscribe to PissedConsumer social media accounts: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PissedConsumerCom/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pissedconsumer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pissedconsumer
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We had took our mom there
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She was rushed there from my brother's home in Daytona Beach, possibly had a seizure or a stroke
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We didn't find, I don't know, I didn't know at the time
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But she went into emergency surgery there. They said it would take 30 to 45 minutes
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They had to go into her brain and dissolve a blood clot, supposedly
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However, the surgery took three hours. I still don't know why it took three hours today
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I have been doing research. And from what I've seen, it could have been some wrong-site surgery or something
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I just never could get any answers from them, actually. During the surgery, the doctor came out a couple of times
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and just let us know that everything was okay. Also, in the midst of that, the anesthesiaologist came out
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William Turner, he came out, and he said that, I guess, he said that she was a mess
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He said that my mom was a mess. They had other people that they could be doing surgery on
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She was waving her arms and he was trying to sedate her
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which really bothers me because she was back there by herself for him to come out and say that
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It really, really bothers me. Because I just don't feel like that was something for him to say
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rather with bedside manner or not. But anyway, the doctor came out again
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before the three-hour surgery was up. And she said, do not be alarmed
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she said everything it looks worse off than it is and they said that we could follow
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them over to the ICU unit so they can clean her up
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when they rolled my mom out she had vomit all over her
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she was incubated we had no idea that a ventilator was even put into her
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She was out of it. I mean, it was so much worse off from when she went in
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I didn't understand what had happened within those three hours. Something that was supposed to take the 30 to 30 to 45 minutes ended up three hours
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What were they doing back there was my thing? And when she came out, she was a mess
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They cleaned her up. She went into ICU. We stayed by her bedside, my brother and myself
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I drove from Holiday Florida all the way to Daytona Beach, Florida, so I was tired
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And I had to take my dog with me as well in my car
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So my brother and I took turns staying with my mom because he lived a little distance from the hospital
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Um, so he would stay during the day with her. For while I get some rest, I would stay, um, at night
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Because the more questions I asked about the surgery, the more they got, had gotten defensive
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Um, I felt like something had went wrong. And the more questions I asked, the more they would get upset, um, I would catch them
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them, the doctors, rather. I would catch them in lies rather than just telling us the truth A few days passed by my mom she just landing there the whole time incubated They giving her medications Nothing is happening When they did rush us over from the operating room
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the doctor and anesthesiologist who made that comment, he said that, they said, oh, she'll be up the next day
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It'll be fine. She'll be up the next day. Everything will be fine. She'll go back home
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never happened. So they deceived us. I mean, I believe they just said to subpoise us just to, you know
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keep us calm or whatever. But she laid there for at least three days before I really started
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asking a lot of questions. I asked for the operated notes, which I'm used to getting after any
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surgery. They gave me the run around about that. The doctors gave me the run around about that
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They said that I would not be able to get the operator notes until she's discharged
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Why I've never heard of that before. And then this one specific day, my brother, when I came, when I, because I was sleeping in my car outside of the hospital with my dog because it was too far to go to my brother's home
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So when my brother would come, we would like change shifts. I would come, I would sit with her at night
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My brother advised me that the case manager was looking for me
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because I was my mom's power attorney as well as her medical service
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I went and found her and she asked me to sign a document
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basically stating if I was planning to sue the hospital, I would agree to sit down with them first
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and discuss anything before I went and received legal representation. And I found that to be rather odd
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And I asked her, is it something that happens often? And she was like shrugged it off or whatever
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and I asked for a copy of the paper. I never signed this for us
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because I felt like something was totally wrong. And she would not give me a copy of that document
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So after that, we're wanting to get our mother off of this ventilator
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We're knowing that something is wrong at this hospital. Any questions that I have, they would have an attitude
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or I would catch them in lies, they would be deceiving me. And then one particular day, well, before that, the doctors will come around in the morning
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And we wanted our mother off of the ventilator because we don't even understand why it's there, why I was there
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They would come around and they said that she would have to be alert in order for her to be able to get off of that ventilator
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So they would come around, they would pinch her, they would rub her in her chest really hard
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mind you, she's laying there, she can't do much because she's under the medication
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We were asking them, why was she sleeping so much? They say, oh, her brain is healed
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That's what they were telling us. But my brother was in the medical field, and he one day looked at the medications
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and he saw that they were giving her a mass amount of Ketra
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And when he brought that to their attention, that's when they started
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started to really scramble and then they started coming out. They came out and they put all types of things on our head
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And I feel like they were really trying to help us or help her
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But before that, before that at all, before that, there was nothing
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Before we found out about the Kepra, they wouldn't do nothing. They were just saying that her brain was healed
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So she's just laying there the whole time with this ventilator inside of her
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I do not have any operated notes to find out what went on
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in that operating room. Minute for a minute, that's what those operated notes are for
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So after they rolled out the red cockpit for that one day we wanted a second opinion And that when they really started to buy us People would not I wouldn even tell the story because people wouldn believe what was going on
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I believe my story. It was like a chapter out of Stephen King's, one of Stephen King's books
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That's why my brother and I stayed with my mom the whole time
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because she couldn't talk or anything. So they said that we would have to find
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we would have to be the ones to find a hospital that would take her
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And also we would have to pay for the transport. And we said, okay, because we wanted to second opinion
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because nothing was going on here. And the way that they were acting, and they were just changing out medicine
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giving her medicine after medicine, medicine after medicine, and nothing is happening
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they were giving us attitudes. The doctors were very snippy. Anyway, my brother and myself, we started looking for hospitals closer to the area where my mother lived
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Because my mother was just over there visiting my brother for that storm in
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So we didn't live over there. We didn't have any family there or anything
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So we needed to get closer to home where we had that. So we put in for hospitals closer
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However, the doctors at Halifax said that there was nothing else that could be done for my mom
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This is just me. My belief, my mom wasn't as bad off as I feel that they made her that way
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you know, they made her as bad off as she was at that point
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I felt that something happened inside of that ER room, rather it was wrong site surgery
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or whatever the case may be, because for that surgery to take that long and they have no
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explanation, no operator notes. But anyway, outside of that, we found a doctor in Ocala, and we were at a doctor
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able to try to get her transport. Now, mind you, they were not helping us with any of this
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in the beginning. I think they were thinking that we were just going to give up, but we needed to get
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our mom out of this hospital for what was going on. You know, this is my mom, and she was just
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laying there, and she was nothing like that when she came to that hospital at all. I mean
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it was really, really bad. One night it got so bad to the point where I call a sheriff
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department because mind you we're over there by ourselves you don't have any family or anything
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I felt like they were so against us and I'm not exaggerating I felt like they were so against us
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and it was just myself my brother and my mom and his wife I felt they were so against us and
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I just felt like they were that they weren't wanting her to me that's how I felt
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so nothing would be uncovered. This is just what my beliefs from being in the situation
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So I call the Sheriff Department in Orange and in Volusia County
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I call my mom's, I call Florida Blue. I call my mom's primary care position
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I needed to find a way out because I felt like they were just
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holding us hospital, and they did not want to leave that hospital. but my brother and myself
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we continued to fight and fight and fight and then we found the doctor
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in Ocala who would take her now once we found that doctor
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they said they would take her however then we had to worry about
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the transport because with us one and the second opinion the hospital would not pay
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for the transport they said we had to pay for it ourselves
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only thing that I know is we had to get our mom out So the day of that we were supposed to be trying to get our mom out of there the case manager she came to me again and she told me the transport service She told me the transport service that would be transporting So I
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called them myself and I got a quote of how much it would be. My brother
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and I started working on that. Mind you, they were just trying to do, they were putting
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pressure on us basically. That's the way it felt. And the case manager, the case
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manager for the hospital came in and she said, here's your quote
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Here's the quote. Look at it. Look at this. And then I looked at it and said $1,500
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However, the guy, the gentleman on the phone from that transport service
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he gave me a quote of $1,400 and something. So I looked at it or whatever, and I took it from her
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I guess she wasn't expecting me to take it. But she gave it to me and she left
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Now, mind you, once I really sat down and I looked at that quote
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That was a quote from someone else. That quote was from a gentleman who was receiving transport service on September the 8th of the same, which was a month before us
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It had their credit card. They had their credit card information like the last four digits at the end
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So I felt like she was just giving me that to like throw me off for me to say, oh, that's too much money
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you know, oh, we can't go anyway because that was not our quote
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It had someone else's name and their credit card number and their address on it
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And I have that information as well. I still have it. So along with that
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the doctor and the nurse they continued all day. I had stopped her medications
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I stopped my mom's medication. because I felt like they were trying to do something for us not to leave this hospital
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It may be hard to believe. That's why I never, I didn't even tell my family this story because I didn't think anyone would believe
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My brother and I, we fought so hard to get our mom out of that hospital
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I mean, no one would understand. It was the worst thing that I ever went through in my life
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I cannot believe that health care professionals that we put our, we put our life into their hand would do this to cover up whatever they would, whatever happened
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But they were rushing. The doctor came back and he was like, why won't you give, why won't you give your mom
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I'm sorry he was like why did you stop why did you stop for medication
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why won't you get why won't you allow us to give her medication I would not allow them to do it
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and then I was on the phone and my father trying to get up $1,500 to have her transported
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and my dad was like my dad was like who is that talking to you like that
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in the background and that was the doctor basically he was one
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me to say that I believe that they did something, that's what I do
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But I would never say it because we need to get my mom out of
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it. It was just so many things going on and the pressure. And then it was that one
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nurse. It was a nurse that I told them that I didn't want to work with her
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anymore with my mom. Well, just because of her shalroo she was
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and everything. And how about they put that nurse with us that morning when we were supposed to leave
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Why would they do any of this? It was like a cult
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I mean, it was the scariest thing I've ever witnessed in my life. And then it was just, we didn't have family with us
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because we were over in Daytona. So it was just my brother and myself fighting
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to get my mom out of here. And it was so hard as thing that I ever went through in my life
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And we fought them so hard. We fought them so hard. They saw that we would not give up until at the end
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They just said, forget it. They don't think of the transfer
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