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The medical director of the orthopedic clinic. throughout my professional career i've treated patients in all walks of life, including so many children. and anyone who has treated a child knows the remarkable joy when you are able to tell the mom and dad that we have help e save an individual, save their child or help their child back to healthfulness. my memories of grady are filled with the gracious comments of parents and pashtients for the health care workers i've had the privilege of working. i started a solo orthopedic practice. over the years this practice grew and eventually became one...

>> we just talked about that. that means you can have those mandatory tests. all those preventions. guess what, clayton, lawyers figured that out, not doctors. i might know or another practicing physician might know what is exactly essential. a trip to an emergency room i that covered. hospitalization that should be mandatory. catastrophic style insurance. but don't front load it with all of these things that lawyers decided you needed but doctors might not. abby: as you mentioned earlier more insurance choices and that could be huge. >> that's going to drive down prices and people are going t...

President-elect. he's been very successful in his private life. i kind of know something like about that. i had to walk away from my medical practice. that's hard to do for someone my age. it's difficult. i can certainly sympathize that he may be having some difficulty with leaving that. but this is a smart individual who has smart people around him. and i will trust that they will make the correct decisions. >> so here's my question, this is actually a great example, right? so you were a practicing physician, as i understand it. you had a very successful medical practice. >> very successful. ...

School football deaths as we understand them are head, neck, spinal injuries, indirect causes include heat stroke, sudden cardiac arrest and pre-existing health condition. why have we not seen a significant decline in these numbers so far, dr. hebert? >> the interesting part is those rules we have to govern high school athletics have to be followed. as a past medical director of an entire state school district, we have seen some coaches decide they think it's more important to put a student on the field than to get a sports physical before they hit the field. then you have some small cities an...

A practicing physician and professor at university state health sciences center joins us now. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> i want to get your read how important these advances were for the three sciences they made in this area? >> in america, we don't think about these diseases to much because we don't see them. in developing countries all around the world, these were the most ground breaking drugs that were available and are still saving millions of lives every year. you talk about malaria and roundworm diseases. these diseases are so prevalent around the world that we know t...