Thank you for coming. The executive director of the bigcity Health Coalition want to say a special thank you to Representative Office for securing the space for us and while i know the congresswoman could not be here today i want to thank her for being a true champion for Public Health also the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner as we planned this event. The Health Coalition started in 2002 is a forum for leaders of the largest metropolitan Health Department for strategies to jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the residents we have those jurisdictions whose Health Department serves nearly 62 million or one out of five americans well have two jurisdictions here today. You have bios in front of you i will not take up time i want to introduce the panel that i will turn it over to them. The order in which they are presenting doctor kraft is the immediate precedent of aat the commissioner of health in new york city the chief med
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Some doctors i really ought to think especially those who are on t. V. Do you know the show dr house this guy solves medical mysteries there are 50000 different diagnosis and medicine 8000 of them read diseases so rare that a regular g. P. Has never had off them but. The stock to hide quoted here at the show in berlin welcome to. Imagine you have a disease that no one knows when it could be said its a rare disease and you would be surprised where diseases are not so seldom. Do you remember the ice bucket challenge in the crazy year of 2014 where stars doctors and joes most had ice bucket with ice cold water dumped over their heads to raise awareness for a less traffic letter roads to rosas a very rare disease and many people were saying this instance silly perplexities stunt but do you really think it was that silly. That. In 24 gene Bruno Schmidt came across the ice bucket challenge a Fund Raising Campaign for research into a. O. L. s. Hed never heard of the disease and decided to fin
Host i woke up on december 10, 2016, picked up the New York Times, and saw the headline, im prejudiced, he said. Then we kept talking. I want to show you the video and then ask you to explain the whole thing. Good morning. I was hoping your guest could help me change my mind about some things. I am a white male, and i am prejudiced. The reason it is is something not that i was taught but something i learned. When i open up the papers, i get discouraged with what young black males are doing to each other and the crime rates. I understand they live in an environment with a lot of drugs. You have to get money for drugs. Its a deep issue that goes beyond that. I have these different fears. I dont want my fears to come true. I try to avoid that. I come off as being prejudiced. I dont like being forced to like people. I like being led to like people through example. What can i do to change, to be a better american . Heather thank you so much for being honest and opening up this conversation,
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