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Places you on item number four. Approval of minutes for the march 5th regular meeting. Secretary, id like to make some opening remarks, if thats all right, before we get into minutes, i wanted to just thank everyone for being here today, and i just feel that i need to open up this meeting with an acknowledgment of the tragic events that occurred at west portal station over the weekend. Im imagining, but i dont know. But im imagining that many people are feeling anger, rage, a sense of powerlessness, hopelessness. I know that ive cycled through these feelings myself over the past 72 hours, and this happens whenever i hear of any fatalities or serious injuries on our streets. It shouldnt happen in our city or anywhere, and our hearts are with the family. I also know that when these kinds of things happen, there is a natural tendency to want to make sense of the situation very quickly by finding a villain to blame, pointing a finger and demanding action and i understand that. I think that ....
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 HealthService 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 deliv ....
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 pati ....
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 HealthService 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 sta ....
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 the ....