And innovators who are trying to make an impact on middle class families. Engineers believe better healthcare lies with something that is in your pocket right now, a smart phone. A diagnosis of an ear infection could be using your phone as a mobile m. D. Reporter this is an scope attached to his iphone. This is what he uses to look in your easier. Now you have my eardrums. Reporter douglas predicts there will be a day when parents will send videos like this to their doctor for diagnoses. Were taking the most common tool and turning it into a medical tool to meet important needs. Reporter doctors engineers and entrepreneurs gather to show off the latest prototypes aimed at Monitoring Health and keeping people out of the doctors office. Like this facebook for patients that takes pictures over time of a wound that is healing so a doctor can monitor progress from afar. It creates efficiency through having the ability to reduce followup visits. Reporter even a sonogram that connects to your
Introduction. Thank you for coming out. I wanted to thank keplers for hos hosting this event. This is a great option, you dont have to buy by book, but buy a book and support the organization. I have three short excerpts i would like to read for you. And then i thought we could have a short question and answer. Has anyone read the book yet . Some people have started it. Some people finished it. Some people working on it. Just to give you context. The format of the book is unusual. One of my publishers told me it is category stretcher. It is written primarily as a memoir. It is a personal experience of trying to balance a demanding career and motherhood and how i completely failed. But i tried to make sense of the failure and put it into a bigger context. And the idea for turning it into a book started when i started hearing stories from other women that were similar to mine about burning out and i realized how maxed out we are and i wanted to understand it in a bigger way. I tried to i
With richard brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review at the New York Historical society. Everyone felt they knew her. And they did pretty much because she laid her life out for everybody to see. And she told us about what life was like in suburbia for women in the 1960s through the 1990s. And one of the wonderful things about her, you know, she wrote mainly humor, and it was schumer that was accessible to everyone. Because it was humor that happens to everyones lives but they might not recognize it until they saw it written on the page or in a newspaper column. Because funny things happen to us all the time, but we have to be out on the look out for them come and she was the one that focused our attention on the funny things that happen in the family, things that at the moment seem like craziness and driving you nuts, but when you look back at them you think that was really funny. So thats a real gift. Thats a literary gift. The life and times of erma bombeck this weekend as a boo
Gerri your show. Your money. Your voice. Tonight your veteranssthis veterans day we know our veterans aren trouble. High unemploymenrates more d more heroes on food stamps. Where have we gone wrong . D as a research so selflessly betterer a goldstar mom a mother of a navy seal also a military family adviser with concern to veterans for america. We appreciate you coming. But what is 900,000 veterans on food stamps . Why it is going on in the . Limit these are brave and amazing human beings writing a check to america up to their life in america has turned their back and right here in new york city 40 pcentf the returning veteransfind themselves on fo stamps and standing in this soup kitchen and it is inexcusable. Gerri i read effuse he went to thousand vets will eating at soup kitchens on the thanksgivi. How do react to that as a mom . It i tragic. Throw sons life i have met paul lot of people who have served and eve since his death now working with concerned veterans of america the thes
Gerri your show. Your money. Your voice. Tonight your veteranssthis veterans day we know our veterans are in trouble. High unemployment rates more and more heroes on food stamps. Where have we gone wrong . And as a research so selflessly better a goldstar mom a mother of a navy seal also a military family adviser with concern to veterans for america. We appreciate you coming. But what is 900,000 veterans on food stamps . Why it is going on in the . Limit these are brave and amazing human beings writing a check to america up to their life in america has turned their back and right here in new york city 40 percent of the returning veterans find themselves on food stamps and standing in this soup kitchen and it is inexcusable. Gerri i read effuse he went to thousand vets will be eating at soup kitchens on the thanksgiving. How do react to that as a mom . It is tragic. Throw my sons life i have met paul lot of people who have served and even since his death now working with concerned veter