patients, prevention is the way to go in the future. kelly: we good advice. patti ann: dr. siegel, what would you add in terms of not being that statistic. not everyone complies with their medication and, one of the things that came out the review, is 24% of people are not getting their medications or getting to the doctor and as a practicing internist i see the problem of people with two or more problems and i couldn t agree more with david s point about obesity, that is the core of the problem, not just obesity bought being overweight, almost half of americans are overweight, and, are sedentary and we lie on the coach, don t get up, don t exercise and i want to explain why obesity is at the core of this, because people come to me and if they are obese, their cholesterol is usually too high. their blood pressure goes up. when their blood pressure goes up and the cholesterol is too high, they have a higher risk of heart disease, that is nor one of these chronic diseases and diabe
so, what, exactly, is hepatitis c? how can you protect yourself when going to the doctor s office or the hospital? we have a practicing internist and faculty member at new york university school of medicine. thank you, doctor. so, tell us, what is hepatitis c and what caused it? guest: hepatitis c is a virus that infects the liver, causing a chronic liver problem going on to what we call sir cirhossis, this is an evil act for anyone who perpetrates it. heather: the symptoms? guest: you may, early on, develop a viral like symptom where you are fatigued and you may have symptoms of hepatitis but the majority of people do not know they are infected and it is only 10 or 15 years later that liver tests are noted on
gregg: more than 16 million americans suffer from depression and it is estimated it could be the second leading cause of illness over the next several years. now, there is a new study suggesting a simple blood test could possibly help diagnosis it. heather: a practicing internist and faculty member at new york university, and author of no guts, no glory, a successful book. greg gregg: number one on the health list and am done. when it comes to depression what we are talking about today who do you tell between teenager who is just suffering from normal teen angst and one who is depressed? guest: with great difficulty which is why the new study revealing there could be blood gene biomarkers that could
doctor, what was this board going to do? well, the purpose of this board, megyn, is actually to review medicare services and decide if they re essential and make recommendations about reimbursements. and theoretically, this board could end up cutting doctors fees for services they don t think are essential. the problem with that not only in terms of medicare by the way, the democrats have been saying, medicare, you get to keep your benefits, but if your services are cut, are you keeping your benefits? that s debatable. megyn: right. the health care law said this board was not going to be allowed to restrict benefits, so if they wanted to find medicare savings, they were going to have to cut doctors reimbursements? right or recommend that the reimbursement for these services get cut. as a practicing internist, i don t always believe one thing is better than another. it depends on the patient. one patient needs an mri, another only needs a chest x-ray. it totally depends. and if
their patients. gregg: can you believe that? a doctor would lie to his patient. marcus welby would never do that. more than half of doctors say they deliberately put on a positive spin when delivering bad news and that some never even admit to their own medical snakes. dr. steven lamb is a practicing internist, faculty member at new york university school of medicine, contributor to the daily. you ever lied to a patient? i can tell you that i have not been brutally honest with certain patients and i think gregg: really? why? i think there are certain areas where being brutally honest is not really the best interest of the patient. since my mission really involves being compassionate, being sensitive, being empathic and there are times where it s inappropriate to tell the patient the honest truth gregg: give me an example. a person will come in and they could be seriously depressed and very anxious, they may not be able to handle the