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
All the police is quite fascinating. It would be pretty crazy to see the motorcade made street closures all across San Francisco today as people try to steal glimpses of President Joe Biden and his motorcade today. Good evening. Im karina nova. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. President biden spent this second day in the bay area in San Francisco. A meeting with his council of advisors on Science Technology before heading to several fundraising events. Abc seven News Reporter suzanne fawn joins us live from the newsroom with the details suzanne. Sarina. Dan, this is the president s second fundraising trip in about three months. As planned, he talked about technology with his council of advisors before heading out to meet with some fundraising supporters in San Francisco. We saw plenty of people eager to see and hear more from him. Our president is here. Im so excited. Thats so nice. I hope we get a glimpse of him and his beautiful wife. People visiting San Francisco from all o