The subcommittee will come to order, we will now resume with our second page, our witnesses for the second panel, i have to put my glasses on, sorry about that. Dr. Debra pat, texas oncology. Dr. Fer, youre recognized for 5 minutes for your opening. Rural clinic and rural hospital and medical director of the local nursing home. As president elect of the Family Physicians im honored to be here today representing 129,600 physicians and student members of the afp. I went into medicine 35 years ago as National Health Service Scholar to serve an underserved community. I went there, paid my deuce, did my time and i did what the program meant to do. I stayed there and continue today serve that community. Ive stayed therefore ever since. My training has allowed me to develop longterm relationships with my patients and deliver patient centered primary care. Were not called Family Medicine physicians just because we treat the whole family. We are called Family Medicine physicians because our pat
The subcommittee will come to order, we will now resume with our second page, our witnesses for the second panel, i have to put my glasses on, sorry about that. Dr. Debra pat, texas oncology. Dr. Fer, youre recognized for 5 minutes for your opening. Scholar to serve an underserved community. I went there, paid my deuce, did my time and i did what the program meant to do. I stayed there and continue today serve that community. Ive stayed therefore ever since. My training has allowed me to develop longterm relationships with my patients and deliver patient centered primary care. Were not called Family Medicine physicians just because we treat the whole family. We are called Family Medicine physicians because our patients are part of our extended family. Being a rural family physician is incredibly rewarding but in the last several years its gotten much more difficult. My patients have more chronic medical problems that require complex ongoing care management, more and more they are looki
The subcommittee will come to order, we will now resume with our second page, our witnesses for the second panel, i have to put my glasses on, sorry about that. Dr. Debra pat, texas oncology. Dr. Fer, youre recognized for 5 minutes for your opening. Im cofounder of the Medical Clinic of jackson which is a rural clinic and rural hospital and medical director of the local nursing home. As president elect of the Family Physicians im honored to be here today representing 129,600 physicians and student members of the afp. I went into medicine 35 years ago as National Health Service Scholar to serve an underserved community. I went there, paid my deuce, did my time and i did what the program meant to do. I stayed there and continue today serve that community. Ive stayed therefore ever since. My training has allowed me to develop longterm relationships with my patients and deliver patient centered primary care. Were not called Family Medicine physicians just because we treat the whole family.
The subcommittee will come to order, we will now resume with our second page, our witnesses for the second panel, i have to put my glasses on, sorry about that. Dr. Debra pat, texas oncology. Dr. Fer, youre recognized for 5 minutes for your opening. Program meant to do. I stayed there and continue today serve that community. Ive stayed therefore ever since. My training has allowed me to develop longterm relationships with my patients and deliver patient centered primary care. Were not called Family Medicine physicians just because we treat the whole family. We are called Family Medicine physicians because our patients are part of our extended family. Being a rural family physician is incredibly rewarding but in the last several years its gotten much more difficult. My patients have more chronic medical problems that require complex ongoing care management, more and more they are looking to our practice to help with the depression and anxiety, Meeting Basic Needs and navigating increasi
Sector. Demanded december constrk the ceo joins us with what he is seeing now and what he expects from here. Lets start with the markets, though, and dom chu has the numbers. There is some green out there, kelly. Its a reversal, because we did see modest gains earlier. The dow up one half of 1 . 127 points to the upside, 33,679. The s p up about 30 points, three quarters of 1 gain. And just to put those moves in context, we were up 43 points at the highs of the session. Down ten points at the low. So theres your trading range so far, tilting towards the higher end of things. The nasdaq outpacing the whole market, up 140 points. One of the places to keep a close eye on is the oil market. You are seeing u. S. Benchmark is in the red down by 1. 5 . But at one point today, on an intra day basis, we did hit the highest levels going all the way back to august of 2022. Keep an eye on the oil prices. Again, lower for the day, but did hit the highest levels since august of last year at one poin