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I've used this technique myself for all three of my kids. also, the epidemic of drug abuse with prescription pain meds. there is a voice we often don't get to hear of children. and you're going to meet an 89-year-old woman who is completely blind and she has this amazing story about how she was able to travel the world still. let's get started. ♪ first up, a new documentary that takes a hard look at my profession. medicine. it's called the escapefire and makes a controversial case. it says doctors focus too much on money, do unnecessary procedures, don't spend enough time on basic preven...

But we have to try. the problem with yvonne's case is she had all of those stents before she had had the risk factors controlled. that's not good medicine. we have to teach young physicians that prevention comes first. >> in the spirit of educating people out there, i have cardiac disease in my family, who should actually get a stent? >> anybody having a heart attack should get a stent. it's the best treatment and saves lives. period. everybody agrees on that. the next group of people are people really that have tried medical therapy, that are on medical therapy and they're failing. there are ...

I don't know what to do, and they contradict each other, so how do you even know? >> ideally, your physician should be able to guide you through this maze. the arizona center for integrative medicine has now graduated almost 1,000 physician fellows from intensive trainings in the new system i think is necessary. we have practitioner all over the country and they're trained to answer your questions and be your guides, and there bill be more and more out there. i'm working as fast as i can to improve medical education in order to answer your questions. >> weic appreciate it. and again, escape fi...

The health care system pushes doctors to do more surgery instead of paying more attention to prevention. >> first up, a new documentary that takes a hard look at my profession, medicine. it's called escape fire. it makes a controversial case. it says doctors focus too much on money. they do unnecessary procedures. they don't spend enough time on basic prevention. case in point. a patient diagnosed in her 30s with heart disease who had bypass surgery, 27 cardiac and stints to keep her heart open. doctors got her cholesterol and blood pressure under control and counseling on diet and exercise he...

First. >> who should absolutely get a stint? >> so anybody that is having a heart attack should get a stintd. it's the best treatment and it saves lives. period. everybody agrees on that. the next group of people are people who have tried and are failing. there are a lot of people like that. >> and you can see escape fire in the entirety followed immediately by the rest of my discussion on rescuing the american health care system. that's sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. >> and the battle over sugary drinks in new york is messing with the coffee. how a large coffee with sugar may ...