Savannah Sparks Is TikTok’s Most Polarizing Medical Misinformation Sleuth. She Doesn’t Care.
It’s hard to know what was going through Nancy Parrott’s head when the former ER technician from Oregon allegedly recorded the sounds made by a patient and decided to post a video to Twitter with the caption: “When a patient has poor coping skills.” But the backlash that followed was swift.
Within a month Salem Health, Parrott’s employer, put out a statement that it had completed an investigation launched “in response to the viral video and inappropriate behavior” and that “the individual at the center of this incident no longer works for Salem Health.”
While the original video has been removed, the “viral video” the statement referred to is likely a TikTok made by Savannah Sparks that has been viewed more than 8 million times. “Hey boo,” Sparks says before revealing that she had identified Parrott through her public Facebook profile and reached out to her employer about the video. And its conclusion: “You’re about to lose your job, Nancy.”