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.
Seventh straight session. Dropping triple digits today. For the year the dow is actually down the better part of 3 . S p 500 is still positive for 2015. But its broken a technical level, slipping below the 200day moving average. Twice in the summer it has bounced on that. Will it do that from here . The dollar hit highs not seen since april, but if im looking at the screen to the right of me correctly, it is raised those gains and now in negative territory for the session overall. Despite that, Oil Continues to be under pressure. Prices down about 5 1 2 percent for the week. Oil light sweet crude is just trading above 44 a barrel. If we break that it will be significant. Check out the yields on the benchmark 10year treasury notes. Yields down to 2. 18 . Despite the view that the fed might be hiking on this payroll data in september. Vrm the nasdaq is the biggest loser right now. Kate rogers is following the action. It is not quite as ugly as it was here yesterday. We are less than by t
17 months. 215,000 positions were added in july, with the Unemployment Rate steady at 5. 3 . Wages ss nudged up just slightly while the share of americans participating in the labor force remains stuck at a 38year low. But experts say the overall report is proof the recovery is chugging along and likely keeps the Federal Reserve on track for its first Interest Rate hike since 2006. Hampton pearson has more on the numbers and what they mean for main street and wall street. For the first seven months of this year job growth has been wide spread averaging 212,000 jobs per month. Health care continues to lead up 436,000 for the year including 28,000 last month. Retailers have added 322,000 new employees as Consumer Spending picks up. And it was another strong month for professional and Technical Services up 27,000 topping 301,000 for the year. Those booming auto sales help manufacturing have its best month of the year. Workers hours increased, but wage growth remained stagnant. Overall, a