Episode 4: Running Out of Time — What We Can Still Change

Описание: KMOB1003 Spotlight Series

Black Americans are dying from heart disease years — sometimes decades — earlier than they should.

This is not inevitable. And it is not irreversible.

In the final episode of Running Out of Time, we move from awareness to action.

Over the past four weeks, this Spotlight Series has examined a hard truth: why Black hearts are failing sooner — and what can still be changed before time runs out.

In Episode 4 — What We Can Still Change — the focus shifts to agency, accountability, and prevention that arrives early enough to matter.

Dr. Anthony Fletcher, interventional cardiologist and former President of the Association of Black Cardiologists, explains where the system is losing time — and what meaningful prevention looks like in real life.

Dr. Sandra Bruce Nichols brings a rare and powerful dual perspective: physician and heart transplant survivor. After surviving sudden cardiac death and receiving a life-saving heart transplant within two weeks, she now speaks not only from clinical leadership, but from lived experience. Her story reframes urgency, advocacy, and what it means to act before crisis.

This episode addresses:
• How to recognize warning signs earlier
• What families can do now — not later
• Why self-advocacy in healthcare matters
• What institutions must change
• And how we interrupt a pattern that has cost our community too many years

This conversation is not about fear.
It is about saving lives.

If this series has informed you, share it.
Let it be the reason someone schedules the appointment. Learns their numbers. Speaks up sooner.

Because knowledge is only power when it saves a life.