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Good afternoon, well get started while ruth is getting taped. Im elliott gurstein and delighted to see you all today. You know we dont usually start quite this promptly but were not always being taped live by cspan. Were delighted to have them here today. And this is a particularly exciting entry in our longstanding Public Health rounds sponsored by our Health Society and medicine program. The focus today is the inaugural report of the aspen Health Strategy group. The name Health Strategy group ...

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Mosquito net waiting for me to wake up so i could help them with a sick child. it was frightening because if they are depending on me for their health care we are all going to die. i certainly had no medical training at all. i had to involve myself more. it was either stay and do something or leave. my name is patty webster and i bring down medical teams into the amazon jungle. we work in so many diverse areas where the ministry of health doesnt get to. so we often take extreme measures to get o...

To wake up so i could help them with, you know, a sick child. it was frightening to me because if theyre depending on me for their health care were all going to die because i certainly had no medical training at all. i had to evolve myself more. it was either stay and do something or leave. my name is patty webster, and i bring down medical teams into the amazon jungle. we work in so many diverse areas where the ministry of health doesnt get to. so we often take extreme measures to get out to pl...

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If they were depending on me for health care, we were all going to die because i certainly had no medical training at all. i had to involve myself more. it was either stay and do something or leave. my name is patty webster, and i bring down medical teams into the amazon jungle. we work in so many diverse areas where the ministry of health doesnt get to, so we often take extreme measures to get out to places. and some of these areas, many of them would never see a doctor. you have so many people...

Those who dont get health insurance coverage. cnn, of course, is counting the votes. follow our special live coverage as the decision comes down to the wire all day tomorrow right here on cnn. well, she used to be a tour guide in the amazon jungle until a grim realization put her on a new path. today she provides hope and medical care for a native people plagued with health problems. patty webster, our hero of the week. >> for someone who goes to the amazon on a vacation, you see the beauty. i...

Suffering going on. people were very sick. people would sit around a mosquito net waiting for me to wake up so i could help them with a sick child. it was frightening to me because if theyre depending on me for their health care, were all going to die because i certainly had no medical training at all. i had to involve myself more. it was either stay and do something or leave. my name is patty webster. and i bring down medical teams to the amazon jungle. we work in so many diverse areas where th...

Providing more services. anything i can offer them that is going to help them, it is just a real gift. it certainly wasnt what i had planned for my life, but you cant go against these forces of nature. >> want to see more of pattys work in peru, go to cnn.com/heroes and right there, nominate someone you think should be a cnn hero. is dr. sanjay gupta telling us to work out less? his surprising advice in our "fit nation" report coming up next. and crying babies on airliners, we have all been ...