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Things between -- myriad thing between refills, coordinating care with hospitals or specialists. >> long hours and low pay are the big concerns cited among students and industry professionals. consider primary care and internal medicine doctors on an average of over $150,000 a year. specialists like cardiologists and radiologists make two to three times that amount. ucla dermatology resident cokarney says he chose to pursue dermatology because that was his passion but add students look at the bi...

Low pay that many students are shying away from going into family medicine. low pay and enormous medical school debt, to the tune of 2-$300,000 a year, in some cases. long hours, including nights, overnights, weekends, less time with taeurbts -- patients and more tile spent in trenches behind a desk. it sounds anything but glamorous to future doctors. >> i think that the primary care work load is heavy. its not just taking care of the patients. its taking care of a myriad of things the patients ...

Things between -- myriad thing between refills, coordinating care with hospitals or specialists. >> long hours and low pay are the big concerns cited among students and industry professionals. consider primary care and internal medicine doctors on an average of over $150,000 a year. specialists like cardiologists and radiologists make two to three times that amount. ucla dermatology resident cokarney says he chose to pursue dermatology because that was his passion but add students look at the bi...

Where theres always a shortage of doctors. talk about the problem? how big of a crisis is this really? >> what were facing in primary care is what i call a perfect storm. first of all medical students and residents dont want to go into primary care anymore. they look at see their mentors, they see their job is completely unsustainable. largely because of a payment system that doesnt reward or value what primary care providers do. >> if the system is so dysfunctional, explain why, why doctors get...

Never thought too much about the ownership. always a colorful character if youre a yankee fan. knew how much he was and how much he micromanaged the team to some extent. >> as we say fair well, lets get get this to work countries of nabl. red sox nation, yankees nation. george steinbrenner, passed away during the night for the all-star game. campbell brown takes it away right now. hi, everybody. major political battle brewing tonight. naacp versus the taef parting. condemning what they call ra...

politics? well talk about that tonight. also, on day 85 of the disaster in the gulf. we have a new reason to keep a very close eye live in the underwater camera. any moment well find whether the newest cap will pass a critical test. that will tell us whether bp finally shuts off the flow of oil after all. the littest investigation, the drug scourge killing more americans every year, theyre not street drugs, they are prescription drugs, shockingly easy to get. we have a lot of ground to...

Were doing exactly that, going after the waste in the system, the fraud, and thats how we extract the number in savings. perhaps one of the unsung secrets of what we learned from listening to doctors and hospitals and all the difficult providers is that we can do a far better job of coordinating care for people. and if you make sure that someone who walks in the door of any one of the great physicians who are in this room when they were practicing and made sure we followed them through, not just...