Damian we begin with one or more of our more important and popular segments of the year. This is the urgent need for more latino doctors. In the entire country, only 6 of medical doctors are latina or latino. So needless to say there is an urgent need. With me on comunidad del valle today, are dr. Cesar padilla and dr. Manny gonzalez. Gentlemen, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. Dr. Manny gonzalez hi, damian. Dr. Padilla thank you. Damian hi, thank you. And dr. Gonzalez, well start with you. What is it that was your impulse or your impetus . What propelled you to become a medical doctor . Dr. Gonzalez for me it was the need to have more doctors that look like me and like doctors that speak my language. I think its important when physicians speak the language the patients have. They feel a little bit more willing to open up and tell us things that have been going on and oftentimes in my job, primary care, its important to hear whats going on in the social aspects of their l
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
Your screen when you hit play on select videos. This timeline told makes it easy to quickly get an idea of what was debated and decided in washington. Scroll through and spend a few minutes on cspans points of interest. Pecks next Senate Health Committee Discusses a shortage of Minority Health care professionals. The risk of Maternal Mortality among minority women. Beutler her republican congressman Michael Burgess speak on their experiences in advocacy on addressing the issue. How ethnic representation and healthcare bills of trust in minority communities. 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
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
Key issues. This week could see the biggest walkout in history by u. S. Nurses. We tell you what they want and what it means if their demands are not met. Good evening, im brian hackman. It has been over two days since the death of Dianne Feinstein and we now know who will fix her seat for the next few months. Miss butler will go from being the to being a senator from california. According to politico she was registered to vote in maryland and based in d. C. Her work involves fundraising for prochoice female democratic candidates. And she could be one herself since newman did not newsom did not put any restrictions on her joining the were crowded field. She has a deep background working for unions. And with the announcement newsom delivered on his progress to give the job to a black woman. She will now be the only black woman in the senate and the first openly gay one. Newsom said he is confident in her to break glass ceilings and fight for all californians. Nobody knows if butler will