Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150416:04:48:00
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...