This is just under two hours. Cooks healthcare issues that must be addressed. First, the major need for more black latino native american and secondly the alarming rate of Maternal Deaths in america thats disproportionately impacting black latino native american women. They are in the midst of a Healthcare System that in my view is largely broken and dysfunctional. Where we spent almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people in any other country. A 5 million americans today are uninsured or underinsured. We dont have enough doctors, nurses, Mental Health specialist, or pharmacist we have another crisis on top of all of that. That is, that problem lack of medical personnel is extremely, especially acute in latino and native american commutes which is the subject of the hearing today. Despite making up almost 14 of our population just 5 of all doctors in our country are black. Less than 4 of all dentists to default nurses in america are africanamerican. Despite making up ov
To say since im not a can you synopsize your life in two sentences . I wanted you to just in some very brief way tell the audience what this book covers, and then i will delve in and well start through going into specifics, and then build from there. Well, thank you very much. First of all, its a great pleasure to be here with you, and to be here at the public library. So thank you very much. Youre welcome. I guess what i would say, my autobiography is really the strand of my life story because i was born in 1933 in the depression. My father was a Life Insurance salesman with i was the second of two boys in atlanta, but nobody was buying Life Insurance. So my father left atlanta, went to southwest georgia, and established the first black funeral home in blakely, georgia. But beyond that my father was the social activist because this is during the period of legally enforced segregation. And in southwest georgia in those years for blacks was not a very happy place, but my father was an a
Wondered what would happen, was a very positive experience. What about boston at that sometime. Yes. Boston was mixed. By and large, going to boston i had read about paul revere and his ride some lexington and the concord battles and the Boston Tea Party and also crispus attus was the first black to die in the revolutionary war. So i went to see the memorial for hem on the boston common. So i soaked up the hoyt the history of boston, so very positive. So my experience in boston really was very positive, but later in the late 50s the year i entered medical school was the year brown versus board of occasion, the Supreme Court decision, and so as this was implemented around the country, problems of not only in the south but in the north as well. And boston was one of those areas. So, my experience in boston was somewhat different from blacks who went to boston in the late 50s. They found with the political shenanigans of hicks i still remember him from south boston, running to be mayor, b
[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone, welcome to books at noon. The director of Public Programs and events at the library. I am happy today, thrilled to introduce doctor louis sullivan. I have to read because his long list, policy leader, Minority Health advocate, author, physician and educator, serves as secretary of the department of health and Human Services under george bush and was dean of the Morehouse School of medicine and doctor sullivan will be discussing his recent memoir, breaking ground my life in medicine. We are happy to have you. [applause] this is a bit different because often i do fiction books. Usually memoirs, but your story, there is a lot to talk about here. I wanted to begin, a hard thing to say to somebody, can you send upsize your life in two sentences . I wanted you in some brief way tell the audience what this book covers. I will delve in and we will start going into specifics and build from there. A pleasure to be here at the public library. Thank you v
Health advocate, an author, a physician, an educator. He serves as secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush and was founding dean of the Morehouse School of medicine, and today dr. Sullivan will be discussing his recent memoir, breaking ground my life in medicine, so welcome. Were very happy to have you. Thank you. [applause] this is a bit different because often i do fiction books, occasionally memoirs. But your story, theres a lot to talk about here. And i wanted to just begin, i mean, its a hard thing to say to somebody, you know, hi, can you synopsize your life in all of two sentences. But i wanted you to just in some just very brief way tell the audience what this book covers. And then i will delve in, and well start true going into start going into specifics, and then well build from there. Well, thanks very much. First of all, its a great pleasure to be here with you and to be here at the public library, so thank you very much. Youre welco