last soldier drafted into military service. he answered the call, well, answered his draft notice back in 1972. the 39-year-old veteran served also in the vietnam war and the iraq war. i'll be back with you at the top of the hour with nor live news. but right now, it's time for the good doctor. hi there. there's new news about cell phone safety, plus football and head injuries, something we've been talking a lot about. and a remarkable story about cocaine. when it first arrived on the world scene, its biggest early supporter was a young dr. sigmund freud. but we begin with this. cuts to medicaid and other health care issues are real health talks. behind those stories are real people, including one guy who

has a big mission. next week, capitol hill is going to feel the force. >> hey, dr. gupta? >> yes, sir? >> you're it. >> i'm it. >> max paige only knows one pace, full steam ahead. you've probably seen max before, even though you might not know it. remember this volkswagen ad from super bowl xlv? darth vader? nope, just max. and within mere seconds of meeting him, max was asking about my daughters. >> 3 the-year-old. >> let me guess. 4-year-old, 10-year-old and 6-year-old. >> got it. how did you know? >> we're at the children's hospital of los angeles with max and his brother to see dr. michael soka. max has a pacemaker. actually, it's his third and he's only 6 years old.

for parents jennifer and buck, the first sign of trouble came before max was even born. >> my 38-week appointment, we found out that max had structural damage to his heart. they didn't know -- they couldn't get a good heartbeat. they took him emergency c-section, he was born in a whirlwind. >> the last feeling i remember is it's almost hopelessness because it's out of my hands as a dad and as a dad, that's not something you're used to. >> i simply said, save my son. that's all we're here for. i don't understand anything you're going to do. i just -- i need you to save my son. i need you to have a chance to know this kid. >> it's hard to imagine, but for mom and dad, it was all a blur. max was born with a rare heart problem which leads to a lack of oxygen in the blood. without a pacemaker and eight major operations so far, maj max probably wouldn't be here.

can you feel it, max? can you feel the pacemaker? >> if you touch it or if something hits it, that's when i feel it. >> it's like the movie "cars" when they show the pistons and the engines going around. you want them working at the same rate. you want them to work together. >> something like this should be cared for in a children's hospital? could any hospital -- >> oh, no. this is a fairly sophisticated, fairly subspecialized area of medicine. i'm a pediatric electro feesologist. there are probably slightly over 100 of us in the country. there aren't that many people that do what we do. >> it's that kind of skill that brought jennifer and buck to the children's hospital. there are just 56 of them in the whole country. dr. robert adler. >> you say there's only 56 in the country?

we represent just 1% of all the hospitals in the united states, but we're responsible to train over 40% of all the pediatricians and 45% of all the pediatric specialists that take care of the kids. >> kids like max who need specialized care who need doctors trained through the graduate program which is currently on the chocking block because of budget cuts in washington. what we hear is there's not enough sick kids or kids don't make it long enough for the research to be done. my response is there's one. max is mine. we'll do whatever we can do. >> fortunately, the pages are privately insured, but it is expensive. >> our insurance premium is more than a mortgage and our car insurance combined. it's a stretch for us to do it, but that's the level of care that max requires. >> that kind of care might be at risk for kids who rely on medicaid. >> there are about 30 million

children who are now covered by medica medicaid. it's the most common insurance for children. and we see a lot of parents who have either lost their job recently or are having a hard time find ago job who then come to us with the medicaid insurance and it's critical for us to be able to provide that for the children. >> 30 million. >> 0 million. >> on behalf of all those kids, max is headed to the nation's capital to put his force behind the national association of children's hospitals. >> what's the value of this? >> when max was 3-months-old and they operated on his heart, it was the size of a walnut. mine is the size of an orange. >> so charming, so charismatic. do you think that in some part is a reflection of what he's been through? >> absolutely. i say a lot of his acting and hollywood success is because he was trained here. because there's lights and cameras and organized chaos.

everybody is barking out orders and this little thing looking up. >> what happens when you put on the -- >> helmet? i get the force. i'm kidding. >> do you feel different when you put the helmet on? >> uh-huh. >> how do you feel? >> i feel like happy and, like, cool. >> have you got the helmet anywhere around here? >> like -- >> oh, right there. >> well, max is our home entertainment since we couldn't go out and about and do the typical mommy and me play dates. and when the doctor finally said, he can go and be around our children -- we got him involved in a little bitty broadway program locally. >> you were 3 years old? >> yes. and it was 4 to 8-year-olds but they let me in because i was, like, so talented. i know it. >> and modest. do you know what i mean by that?

>> i have no idea what modest means. >> which might come in handy >ótñ,iñ$g>m÷#o walths '#89úçññby >> bye, max. i want to come and visit you again. >> one thing, can you bring your daughters over here? >> i knew you were going to ask that for some reason. i will bring my daughters. thanks. >> we don't do that in this world. we do this. >> how could you possibly resist this little kid? he is crazy cute. he had headed to washington bright and early monday morning. we'll see you much more next weekend here on dr. gupta m.d. you can also check out his blog that his mom wrote@for us. up next, are you counting calories? wait null hear just how much

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you know, one of the haefrtd parts of staying healthy is counting calories. for example, this one serving of cereal, pour that into a bowl, it's about 110 calories. the problem is, who eats just one serving, right? and when you go out to eat, out to restaurants, they're going to do the math for you. the problem is, these numbers aren't always accurate. lauren, in her lab, she grinds up meals, turns them into a powder to try to figure out how many calories there really are. what she found is that one in five restaurant dishes have at least 100 more calories than the restaurants claim. she published their findings in this week's "journal of american medicine." >> one dish had more than 1,000 calories than it was supposed to. it was just shocking. >> the national restaurant association points out on average, the camry counts are going to be accurate.

however, many of the hidden calories were found in dishes that were made from scratch. 100 extra calories a day, about 10 to 15 extra pounds a year. we've been talking a lot about cell phones. this week in san francisco, they became the first city requiring cell phones to come with warnings about radiation. the city passed a law last year requiring radiation to be disclosed, but the cell phone industry is challenging that particular law in court. 75 professional football players sued the nfl and riddell this week. they claim they knew for decades that head injuries can result in long-term brain daj. researchers have found surprising signs of damage in many athletes whoco nated their brains to be studied before they died. last year, the nfl acknowledged that repeated blows can lead to depression as well as a long-term damage.

but when asked about the new findings, they say thooe they're going to of any kind. riddell says they cannot comment on pending litigation. will carter wasn't sure if he would ever be able to return to the stage. but thanks to incredible technology and some laughs, will is back in the spotlight once again. will karlter always loved of making people laugh. when he was a child, he dreamed of become ago comedian. if he would have asked him at 17, he would have said his biggest obstacle was stage fright. >> they had to remove part of his skull because his brain had swollen. >> he was a collapsed lung. he lost his spleen. >> he was in a coma for three

months. i was driving home one night and i said, oh, my goodness, my child has a brain injury. do you need someone to pick you up tonight? >> no. robert can give me a ride home. >> after years of physical therapy, will did recover, but he lost a lot of his independence. he couldn't drive. he had to depend on his parents to give him rides. he had to rely on his friends. he had to put his dreams on hold. >> i love comedy. there is no energy in this world like being on stage. >> will didn't give up. he was determined to overcome his brain injury with the help of this, the electronic driving coach. it helps cue will so he doesn't get distracted. >> scanning ahead. >> and the driving instructor and will has learned to drive again. >> i tend to be a day dreamer, i get distracted by my own thoughts. that's why it's great to have mushl in the car cueing me. and when she's not cueing me,

the device cues me. >> it has taken over a year of practice, but today, he's driving alone with just the device at his side. >> it's really awesome just to have that independence and be able to just have control of my life. to feel like an adult. >> and he's back on stage, performing standup comedy and applying to graduate school to share with others the joy of making people laugh. >> i think i know where all these forest fires are coming from. >> and coming up, something else that is quite surprising to me, a doctor, a medical detective of shorts that has peeled back the case of dr. sig monday frud's enthusiasm for using cocaine. almost tastes like one of jack's cereals. fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um...

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long before drug cartels, crack and tv shows about addiction, cocaine was introduced to the world in a very different light. it was promoted as a wonder drug, sold as a cureall, written up in medical journals and praised by some of the greatest minds in meg history, like sigmund freud. dr. howard markel tells the story in a new book. it's called "an anatomy of addiction." >> 187 4/, dr. sigmund freud wrote his his fiancee about a new interest, cocaine. >> if you are forward, usually see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big, wild man who has cocaine in his body. in my last severe depression, i took coka again and a small dose lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion. >> historian howard markel says

freud first learned about cocaine in medical journals. >> what's fantastic about this journal and many like it, it was published by a pharmaceutical house called park davis, which not by coincidence happens to be the major manufacturer of cocai cocaine. >> cocaine comes from leaves explorers have known this plant for centuries. by 1880s big companies were distilling the leaf into a new drug. >> dr. freud was fascinated. he wrote 70 pages about cocaine. by then the secret was out. >> it was the miracle drug. if you had a stomach ache, nervous, lethargic, if you needed energy, if you had tuberculosis it would cure what you had.

this is how it was advertised, too. >> cocaine was a blockbuster . others sold it, too. one popular product was vin mariani. french bordeaux with six kilograms of cocaine in every ounce. >> the great mother invention took coca nuts and made the drink coca-cola. >> sigmund freud was flirting with disaster. >> i need a lot of cocaine. >> he probably stopped using it after he and a friend of his used it on a patient and nearly

killed her. >> too many people were taking too much cocaine and then these patients were presenting basically as addicts who needed the stuff they couldn't live without it. that's when doctors began to say, huh, we better rethink this. >> by 1903 no more cocaine in coca-cola. by 1920, cocaine was illegal without a doctor's prescription. >> you saw it in 1920 and the 1930s. >> get a kick from cocaine. >> one sniff is terrific. ♪ i'm sure if i took one more sniff that would be terif ♪ >> you saw it in charlie chaplin's "modern times."

he was in jail and he accidentally takes cocaine thinking it's salt. he's doing all sorts of wonderfully whacky things under the influence. you saw cocaine mentioned in movies and songs and stories, all the time well into the 1930s in this country elsewhere. it didn't have a lull, didn't come back until the mid to late '70s and early '80s when cocaine again was the glamour drug. >> the new sound track was eric clapton. ♪ cocaine. >> the drug that all the rock stars used. freely consumed at places like studio 54. it was part of the popular culture that this was an entirely safe drug that was clean and pure and could be abused safely.

>> just like a century before it was a mirage. no more charlie chaplin. the new image, it was more like "scarface." what would sigmund freud think about "scarface"? today attiction is in part a physical disease. we understand more. >> i would hope that more people are skeptical of claims of new drugs, but we all in our heart of hearts want a magic bullet that will cure what ails us. >> a magic bullet. the hope that keeps miracle drugs in business time and time again. it's so striking the same misconceptions, same mistakes pretty much 100 years apart. here's something a lot more healthy, crossing the finish line.

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just two weeks from today six of our viewers and i will be standing on the banks of the hudson river and will jump it. it will be my second time. for our six-pack it will end a huge change from the sedentary lives they used to lead. joining me from kansas city is one of those soon to me tri-athletes. we've been at this for some time now. let me ask you, how has the training been going for you? >> been going good. it's hot here in the midwest but i'm definitely getting everything done. i can't wait for the new york city triatholon. >> the heat wave is something that everybody has talked about. what have you done specifically

to get your workouts in? >> as much as i hate it i've been waking up early before the sunrises and getting out there before the sun is out and the humidity starts. >> those early wake up calls is not easy but important. you told us you came from a meat and potatoes family and never learned how to keep yourself in shape. what have you learned? how has that changed for you. >> it's been 180 degree turn around. i've learned to eat smaller meals throughout the day to stave from that ravenous feeling. >> i can't wait to see you in