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Outline for the jury and your court your occasional background then, beginning at medical school? >> okay. as i said, i graduated medical school in 1965. i then did a one-year internship in pathology at duke hospital in durham, north carolina. from there, i did a three-year residency in anatomical and clinical pathology at the state university, down state medical center hospital. following that, i did a one-year fellowship in forensic pathology at the office of the chief medical examiner for the...

With studying for the u.s. medical boards at night. >> it requires that you study at least ten hours a day. imagine youre working eight to ten hours a day and then try to study eight to ten hours at night. its really impossible. >> all residents are required to submit a personal statement. >> reporter: its a costly, time consuming process that most latino immigrants arent prepared for. >> one of the things i want to help you avoid is to help you -- >> reporter: uclas img program helps fast track...

Track these doctors to practice medicine again. >> hi, everybody? how are you doing today? >> it provides a stipend as well as medical board prep classes and mentoring by ucla physicians. >> when i got accepted, i was able to stop construction and focus on my exam. that gave me the opportunity to take the test six months after joining the ucla program. >> theyve helped 66 latino immigrant doctors, including chavez, pass the u.s. medical boards and then get placed into residency programs in south...

Graduating from medical school but that is going to change? >> it is. here is the issue. there are people in the pipeline and they are going through medical school but they hit a big hurdle and that is residency. basically for the last 15 years, the funds that that have been used to, federal funds to fund these residency programs have been frozen and be part of the whole budget battle to train new doctors. they can graduate from medical school but they cant get into residency programs so that is...

I had talked about distribution. this is the distribution of the 24 hours. it makes sense why you end up in an emergency room, at 7:30, maybe thats the only time you can get to see a doctor. >> at least 63% or 64% of patients that come in to emergency departments come in after 5:00 p.m. its all about accessible. >> you asked about the solution. it has to be a local solution. when -- if you look -- we have two great health institutions in any city. lehigh health network. st. lukes health network....

Doctors. 5,721 is the number of primary shortage areas. 15,230, the shortage of primary care doctors in the united states right now, 54.4 million are the number of people who will be affected. 62,9 0 is the deficit of doctors we may see before 2030. and 130,000 is the shortage we may see before 2025. why are the numbers this way? because there are traditional economic and legislative factors working against getting more doctors into the system. ten years, the minimum time it takes to train a doc...

Excuse me, the medicare cap. back in 97 when medicare costs were skyrocketing, congress says the cap which medicare pays for residencies. back it up. my kid will go to college, be a doctor, go to med school what is this 1997 rule about medicare have to do with what kind of doctor they will become? >> we need more doctors. we need to expand medical school. four years of training, once you graduate, go to a residency program. we need enough residency programs for those kids to go into. you cap the...

Million. the fact there are fewer doctors and medical students choosing to go into certain kinds of professions placing more pressure on the doctor workforce. >> greta: what i learned today and i learned much from your article and other articles, one of the primary problems while we can put a lot of students in medical school we have this bottleneck in this residency program which is post medical school we dont have enough residency programs and the reason is in part because in 1997 there was a ...

Million. the fact there are fewer doctors and medical students choosing to go into certain kinds of professions placing more pressure on the doctor workforce. >> greta: what i learned today and i learned much from your article and other articles, one of the primary problems while we can put a lot of students in medical school we have this bottleneck in this residency program which is post medical school we dont have enough residency programs and the reason is in part because in 1997 there was a ...

Quinquad, an addiction is more of a physical disease and more schools introduced res den she -- residency programs in addiction programs. all i am addicted to is hard-hitting journalism. and i did have the problem with the jazz salt. but it was the 20s, and we didnt know it was bad for you at the time. >> the jazz salt? >> the jazz salt, greg. >> interesting name. >> it is an interesting name. >> you know what is not interesting? >> what. >> gutfeld. wasted. >> well, did he cross the line with h...