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To many members of congress. and some of the senators said to me you know, would you tell me if we should just blow up the v.a. and give out vouchers. what i discovered is the v.a. is not only essential for veterans it's essential for american medicine and american people. three-legged stool. take away any one of the legs the stool falls over. leg one is research. we spend $1.8 million on research that's led to three nobel prizes. it's led to seven lasker award. we invented the nicotine patch. we did the first liver transplant. we did the first implantable pacemaker. a couple of our doctors i ...

It's our residencies that train doctors. >> did you realize that we have the largest nurse force in the nation? who's going to train the doctors and nurses if it's not the va? secondly research. we send $1.8 billion a year on research. we invented the nicotine patch, the first liver transplant. the first implantable pacemaker. it was a nurse that came up with the bar code to connect patients with charts and records. clinical work research teaching. and that makes a difference for our veterans. it also makes a difference for american medicine. >> there has been part of what's underlining the po...

Va, which means america needs the va. let me explain what i mean, did you realize that 70% of u.s. doctors are trained by the va? it's our residencies that train doctors. >> wow. >> did you realize that we have the largest nurse force in the nation? who's going to train the doctors and nurses if it's not the va? secondly, research. we send $1.8 billion a year on research. we invented the nicotine patch, the first liver transplant. the first implantable pacemaker. it was a va nurse that came up with the idea of using a bar code to connect patients with charts and records. the electronic medical...

Us. >> thank you. heather: so how hopeful should alzheimer's patients be looking at this procedure? >> well, i think this is a breakthrough and, you know, what we're seeing right now, one case at johns hopkins where this implantable pacemaker was put in, 70,000 people have had a similar type of pacemaker put in for parkinson's, and there are already six patients who have had this treatment in canada. so this is a very, very positive step in the right direction, and it works by stimulating those areas of the brain where memories take place. and we have a very good understanding where those area...