Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon, author, and chief medical correspondent for CNN, will be the featured keynote speaker at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine MD/DMD 2023 Class Day ceremony on May 25.
expectancy is declining in the u.s. dr. sanjay gupta in a new documentary, one nation under stress . stress is an epidemic of monstrous proportions. what s the surest way to make someone feel poor? income inequity. you feel helpless, rage. it seemed like we didn t matter. people have an ideology that competition is good for you. that s a trick. could it be that a society gets so stressed out that it actually starts to break? he joins us now. it should be a major concern. it s hard to believe. we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world. we spend close to $4 trillion a year on health care and our life expectancy is going down. you said it hasn t happened in a hundred years.
mobile but you can also become downwardly mobile. you constantly have this sort of feeling of, you don t know where you re going to go. that loss of control, that inability to feel autonomous with regard to your own destiny, that turns out to be very, very stressful as well. so people often think of the very poor, people living on the fringe, as having the most stress, and for lots of reasons they do, but if you re constantly worried about coming down or going up, you re not sure which, for my friend frankie, that s probably the most stressful thing in his life. fascinating. sanjay gupta, thank you so much for joining us. make sure to watch the documentary. thank you, fareed. one nation under stress premiers on hbo on march 25th at 9:00 p.m. next on gps, ukrainians will go to the polls in two weeks time to elect a president. russia is already meddling in the election. will the vote be hacked? and what can america learn as it prepares for its 2020 election?
of the list of major developed countries. sanjay is chief medical correspondent as well a practical brain surgeon. he s diagnosed the heart of the problem in a new film called one nation under stress, it premiers 9:00 p.m. eastern on hbo march 25th. sanjay, among blacks mortality rates are declining. it s not hispanic. it s whites, mostly between 45 and 54, mostly with a high school but not a college education. and you say that what that tells us is that this medical problem is caused by essentially inequality and dashed expectations. yeah, that s really it. when you look at these numbers you just quoted, fareed, it s