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The subcommittee will come to order, we will now resume with our second page, our witnesses for the second panel, i have to put my glasses on, sorry about that. Dr. Debra pat, texas oncology. Dr. Fer, youre recognized for 5 minutes for your opening. Im cofounder of the Medical Clinic of jackson which is a rural clinic and rural hospital and medical director of the local nursing home. As president elect of the Family Physicians im honored to be here today representing 129,600 physicians and student members of the afp. I went into medicine 35 years ago as National Health Service Scholar to serve...

The subcommittee will come to order, we will now resume with our second page, our witnesses for the second panel, i have to put my glasses on, sorry about that. Dr. Debra pat, texas oncology. Dr. Fer, youre recognized for 5 minutes for your opening. Program meant to do. I stayed there and continue today serve that community. Ive stayed therefore ever since. My training has allowed me to develop longterm relationships with my patients and deliver patient centered primary care. Were not called Family Medicine physicians just because we treat the whole family. We are called Family Medicine physic...

That bell being running, then i believe that as youre doing this in terms of leadership function, we run the risk of really losing an enterprise is that the United States essentially pioneered. In terms of another priority that i think youre starting to hear a little bit about, we have to put patients at the center of this. So if you look at the statistics we have 7,000 diseases. Yet, we have treatments for, i believe, dr. Collins, 500 of those. The system is doing its work. Its churning through the science and getting the outcomes to the doors of the fda. The fda is doing its work and then we...

Use these and whether theres any type of hospital in particular that uses them differently . Thank you for your question. As you know we did see a lot of variation but we did not look whether there are certain types of hospitals that are more likely to use short inpatient stays. If the trend continues under the new policy, this is really important question to look into further. I certainly think that is one that would give us a lot of information because if youre using it for certain types of hospitals, is it cardiac hospitals . That would be very interesting to look at variances between 10 an...

Mentioning the clarification on venezuela. I, too, was noticing this week the comments that dialogue cannot be what was the comment dialogue should not just be dialogue for dialogues sake. It has to be dialogue with an end point of action. And those are the actions that we both want to see. So i certainly agree with you on that. Not just dialogue for dialogues sake. Otherwise running out the clock. Exactly. No resolution. We have 0 hold them accountable. To demonstrate our disapproval. And on cuban independence day,let me say we also agree that we look forward to a day when the cuban people ca...