A childs heart starts to race shes working to overcome her severe fear of heights the alternative practitioner again hutch has been accompanying her journey for 2 months today is their 1st therapy session with be all goggles i think sighted in a little nervous im not sure whats in store for me or held react to it. Confronting patients with their fears is a tried and true method in psychotherapy gallants trauma does this with the all goggles instead of real life situations his practice is one of the few in germany that treats Anxiety Disorders with the chill reality. Of wanting to. Christopher to the greatest advantage is that it lets me confront peoples fear on the spot or otherwise i couldnt treat patients fear of heights i wouldnt be able to make a palpable here but i dont have an elevator and there are no highway bridges or tunnels around look at all where would i find a room full of people. But i can simulate with this Virtual Reality and for similarly. The University Outpatient Cl
They also cautioned against the misinformation on social media regarding the coronavirus. This house, science, space and Technology Hearing meeting is out is about one hour and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and become to get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach
Thank you can, heather. I hope that was as powerful to the supervisors as it was me listening to it. The struggle so many nurses have been in so long to get an ear is very moving to me. Its also moving to me that our patients suffer from all the things that youre hearing. Were very dedicated people. Nurses are good people, were short on ego, were long on competence, we do our jobs because we care about people and we dont like suffering. What we see because of these problems is more suffering that could be fixed. So Patient Experience, im not going to spend time on this. Heather really gave you the story, but the Patient Experience due to these problems with staffing is obviously negative. I work in primary care. The worst the worst day of my week is when i have a patient who is decompensating, running out of breath, turning blue, sweating and i have to say, we got to get you to the emergency room. And the patient says, no way. [please stand by] [please stand by] to make my point, i wou
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment, mitigation, and treatment. This is the third hearing that im chairing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conc
President bernal is away this afternoon on some business, so hes asked that i chair the meeting for this evening. The Health Commission will please come to order and the secretary will call the roll. [ roll call ]. Our next item, please clanchts item is the approval of the february 18, 2020, minutes. The minutes are before you for your approval. A motion is in order. I move to approve the minutes. Is there a second . Are there corrections to the minutes . All in favour say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are approved. Clerk there is no Public Comment for item 2. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, grant colfax, director of health. You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday