though dr.l declined numerous requests for an interview, he sent us a letter saying that, since he returned to california, there have been no questions about the quality of his work. in northern california, f.m.g. works for elected coroners, who are also the sheriffs. in yolo county, it's ed prieto. do you do background checks on the forensic pathologists who come to work here? >> we a background investigation to make sure for criminal activity... if they've been involved in any criminal activity. we make sure that their... their... their qualifitate... qualifications or certifications are valid, that they come with some reference. so, yes, we do... we do that. >> bergman: because we got the name of dr. gill, and he's had serious problems all over the united states. >> oh, really? >> bergman: and in 2006, out of a case that he was involved in in sonoma county, the state bar concluded... well, they have a whole chapter here. i can give it to you. it says "incompetent pathologist." >> huh. news to

dr. davies: one famous ecologist said trees in tropical rainforests are like -- he called them the ecosystem engineers. what he meant by that is that they provide the habitat on which all these other organisms depend. so monkeys that live up in canopies of trees go extinct if you take the trees away. ants and termites -- they're gonna be absent if the trees disappear. trees create the structure in forests, and therefore they're central to this whole ecosystem. narrator: although rainforests currently cover only 6% of the planet, they are home to over half of the earth's plant and animal species. dr. davies: the key question we're still trying to figure out is why tropical rainforests have this extraordinary diversity and how it continues to be maintained. narrator: to investigate the diversity of the rainforest, the center for tropical forest science of the smithsonian tropical research institute has been conducting a census of rainforest trees. dr. davies: our basic rearch program is to

dr. nevins saw something in dr.young researcher to mentor and support. >> dr. joseph nevins: very bright, very smart individual, very capable. he was a very close colleague to many, many people. >> pelley: and to you. >> nevins: and to me. >> pelley: when dr. potti decoded the genetic makeup of hundreds of tumors, the research created huge computer files of data. that data was the underlying proof in research papers under the names of potti and nevins that were a sensation in the top medical journals. >> kevin coombes: it was going to change medicine. it was going to change how we treat patients. >> pelley: doctors everywhere were eager to save lives with the new discovery. at m.d. anderson cancer center in houston, kevin coombes and keith baggerly began analyzing dr. potti's data to verify his results. and as you dug into the data, what did you find? >> keith baggerly: we started some basic processing, and we noticed some things that were really odd that we just couldn't explain. >> pelley: coombes and baggerly are

dr. king would agree with the quote. >> yes. >> so connect how you see their interfaith this the discussions we have for interfaith is also a discussion going on about multi faith. let's all get to another everybody's religious. -- religion. interfaith is something different. and the search for being comfortable with the particular as i'm searching or accepting the particular but recognizing that the goal is universal and i guess still with regard to my particular circumstance and particular faith. how does that feed into it -- their thoughts? >> i would say that you have to see both mays and thurman growing. i don't think they are these interfaith people at first. first of all, they are dealing with prejudice because they are protestants and catholics. yo >> who's a catholic? >> within christianity, there is a 16th century revolution called the protestant reformation. they're dealing with those issues. they are very much in a black, protestant world. i think we shouldn't forget that. the

dr. martin luther king, jr. now, i would like to call your attention for those of you who have not seen to make sure you're aware of the additional events that we have planned during the course of this month of king, that are not only sponsored by the chapel but also by the king collection and other institutions right here at morehouse college. we want to thank the faith alliance of metropolitan atlanta for their participation with us in several of these events along the way. i want to say just a brief word about two initiatives that morehouse college is engaged in. one of those is a partnership with the interfaith youth core, called better together campaign, where that is being headed by our own associate campus minister ernest brooks working with the chapel assistants at the martin luther king chapel and students from some of the other colleges and universities not only within the atlanta university center, but beyond. the second engagement that we have is with the presidents interfaith

dr. jaymar shall shepherd, -- dr. jay marshall shepherd, meteorologist and clara brown, >> believe it or not, it was a childhood run-in with and insect that led do dr. marshall shepherd's success in life. >> i was stung by a bee when i was 6. i thought i wanted to be an entymologist but then once i learned i was allergic to bee stings i decided not to. i went to the georgia state science fair and then was bitten by the meteorology weatherbug. all these instruments, ping-pong balls and all kind of neat things around the house and i started taking weather measurements for my community. from that, just through household products, it grew. i would say it grew into a passion. if you ask my wife, she would say a passion, because i have always had it on the weather channel. >> marshall didn't want to forecast weather on t.v. because he was more interested in the how's and why's of weather so conducting raeer research became his goal. he learned that florida state university had one of the best d

dr. clark, what is trauma-informed care? well, listening to dr. harris and dr. gillece, but the most important thing is care that takes into consideration the traumatic experiences that a person may have had. it is care that recognizes that trauma is a very real possibility. when you take a look at the statistics and you find a lot of people who present for treatment, whether it's traditional mental health treatment or substance abuse treatment or a combination, or people who enter the criminal justice system, a significant number have had traumatic experiences. so, if we're going to intervene in a positive way, we have to take into consideration, and the very strategies that allow us to take into consideration. but the most important part of it is the beginning, acknowledging the trauma that could have happened in that person's life. and dr. gillece, how do we screen for that? well, i think when you do trauma-informed care, i think what's really important too is to create environments of care that do no more harm. there are many different screenings that we can

we welcome dr. william maixner. dr. maixner is the director for the center of neurosensory disorders for the university of north carolina at chapel hill. dr. maixner comes to us today with specific experience in pain management research. he has developed an oral facial pain management program at chapel hill. kristen veasley the director of the national vulvodynia association. recently she was appointed to search on the pain research coordinating committee at nih. the committee was created to coordinate pain research facilities across the federal government. and next we have dr. john sarno, a professor of rehabilitation medicine at new york university medical center and practitioner at rusk institute of rehabilitative medicine. dr. sarno, the author of four books on pain will share his work with respect to treating chronic pain. so i thank all of you for coming here. your statements will be made a part of the record in their entirety. and i ask you if you could sum up in five or seven minutes. there is probably a little

dr. harris, what can parents do if their child has experienced trauma, whether it be bullying or some other type of trauma? i think the first thing that a mother or father needs to do certainly is to be willing to listen, but not to feel that this is a problem that needs to stay within the family and be solved within the family. you know, we live in a world of caring others. there are teachers. there are mentors. there are people in church and neighborhood communities. parents should reach out for help. don't sit with the pain of what you've heard and feel that it is only on your shoulders to solve it. i think the other thing, especially for moms, that's really important is you have to read your own reaction to hearing what your child is telling you. your child's story may remind you of an unrevealed story of your own. so, if you start to remember things as you hear your child talk, the first thing you need to do is to get some help for your child because a mother who herself is damaged a

dr. sheftall," and let me add my words to you. we're looking forward to a robust and enlightening conversation that should inform all of us here to for in ways unimagined. as a part of our rich tradition here at morehouse college that actually grew out of the baptist church, we're featuring the works of three exem particulars that really transcended the parochial nature of their own faith boundaries and they really set the stage for how morehouse college and people who have come through morehouse college could then have an effect, an influential role in the broader society, particularly as has been celebrated and is being celebrated over these few days in the life and legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. now, i would like to call your attention for those of you who have not seen just to make sure you're aware of the additional events that we have planned during the course of this month of king that are not only sponsored by the chapel but also by the king collection and other institutions

dr. sarno. now we'll start a series of rounds of questions, or i should say a dialogue with all of you. dr. sarno, something you just said. i'm going to skip around here a little bit. where is it that -- oh, yes. ms. veasley in talking about a report said that medical professionals are more likely to dismiss women's pain reports as emotional, psychogenic, or hysterical, quote, and therefore not real, leading to more frequent mental health diagnosis. so i ask you, is their pain real or is it just in her head? >> the pain is always real. but i think the problem is it's not recognized sufficiently that any emotional phenomenon can actually bring on pain. if you would like a physiologic plans, that simple too. the simple reduction of blood flow, which can easily be accomplished by the brain to vital spinal nerves, or any spinal nerve, but usually it's more in certain areas, the low back, for example, or the neck or shoulders, is easily done. and i think that it's important to recognize that e

dr. mays is four or five years older than thurman. when we look at the dates in history and say, oh, they're right together. but being on the same campus, four or five years is a big difference. >> right. >> what's the influence of these two upon dr. king? let's talk about that more. >> thurman, of course, is not an activist as you might say martin was. martin was very much caught up in activity of a direct social -- from the very early stage. not that he was involved in student politics at morehouse. but morehouse was a very small operation when martin was around. it was very comfortable for him. he didn't live on campus. he lived at home. the undergraduate population at that time was something like 400. we think of the norm as 3,000, but there is a big gap between the size of us now and the size then. so there is intimacy but the home location for martin. he went to chapel every tuesday. he heard dr. mays speak on those occasions. one of his most moving experiences was hearing mordechai

dr. jon thogmartin is chief medical examiner for st. petersburg, florida. tell me about the challenges that child autopsy cases pose. >> well, they're hard because of the emotional content that comes with them, the anger and despair that you'll experience on your own and others. they'll come in with a lot of expectations, and so you have to shield yourself from that. you have to objectify the kid and just find out what happened to them. >> thompson: but finding out what happens in child cases is especially complicated. >> it's going to take less disease to kill a kid than it does an adult, and whatever you're looking for is going to be smaller and less. >> thompson: thogmartin has seen this firsthand. when he became chief medical examiner, he reversed two child death cases handled by his predecessor. >> i told them that there's... basically, the injuries that are described here aren't here. they imagined the retinal hemorrhages on the eyes. >> thompson: they imagined injuries that weren't

dr. king says isn't it something that well, he believed the greatest christian was not a christian at all and that was gandhi. he felt gandhi or anyone who wanted to have a world of peace, that gandhi was inescapable. let's talk about gandhi's influence. >> i think when he said that he was thinking of gandhi not as a hindu. he was thinking of gandhi as a moral human being. you have to deal with that socratic element in martin. there is obviously the attraction toward gandhi, you know, in terms of what he had achieved and the spiritual strength that enabled that achievement. it's important but also implicit in martin and there is appreciation of this movement in human terms that far transcended the case. >> i would guess mays, thurman and king all felt gandhi would be in paradise. that he didn't have to do anything else to be saved to get into paradise. which means they are looking at -- >> it's the same sort of thing. >> i think so. i think your comment on ethics is right on. because, for

and dr.s that typical? is that a typical scenario of some of the folks that experience trauma? well, i think what happens is that trauma breaks out of the normal expected life trajectory, and you're kind of going along and you don't expect the men who come to your house to rape you. you don't expect your mother to go out on a drunk binge and leave you alone. what you think is "normal life" just doesn't happen to you. so you adapt. and you adapt by drinking. you adapt by getting into relationships that may be destructive. you adapt by finding some way to physically or psychologically run away. and dr. clark, this happens, i suspect that because of this dynamic there are an awful lot of people, and we're going to get back to miss cain's experience that end up in our jail systems, that end up in our justice system. is that correct? that is true. there are a lot of people as a result, as miss cain indicated. you start using drugs that are illegal, and as a result of that you wind up getting arres

i appreciate it. >> dr. serno, do you have any else to add at all to our -- do what we have been saying at all. you are been doing this for for 40? >> 45. >> 45 years. you've seen a lot of patients. do you have anything else to add? >> not really. it's just the idea that in medicine in general, there's a habit to look at things from the anatomic point of view and not recognize the impact of emotions on the physiology and that is all i would say, keep an open mind about that. i believe -- >> i hope we will do more research in that area. that is what i hope. that this group will now start to take a closer look at that. well, to try to sum up, dr. pizzo, thank you, you talked about how much we were spending a year and how much coming from a state and federal budget, this was a great impact. you said that it's a moral importance and it is a disease in it's own right and that you need collaboration. we need a lot of collaboration among a lot of disciplines to look at this. dr. maxner, we talk about the barriers a

dr. pizzo and dr. maixner you all disgust doctor shopping and sometimes this is a barrier to properly treating patients with chronic pain. on average how many doctors does a person suffering from chronic pain sea before getting a proper diagnosis and you have estimations on the cost of, the numbers of different doctors that the patient might go to and what does that cost the health care system and is it because the patient does not get the response or they are still in pain that they feel they have to go to another doctor or are they also looking for more medication? >> senator i think that's an important question. i wonder if i could slightly broaden it if you would. clearly what we know today and as you have heard we are spending as a nation between 565 to $630 billion a year on pain and that over 116 million individuals are affected by it. many of those individuals don't have access to health care is we would like them to be able to and even though we have some wonderful centers and need more as dr.

dr. heck said and so often what we hear is that the community colleges, for-profit universities are not connecting with where the jobs are and what businesses need. you both addressed that issue and we're going to continue to look at that. i thank you both very, very much and we'll look forward to talking to you again and we'll ask the second panel to come forward. >>> it's now my pleasure to introduce kellie johnson, president of ace clear water industries, 210 employees that builts complex formed for power generation industries. she serves on the board of the national association of manufacturers and is the chair of the national association of manufacturers, small and medium manufacturers group. she also serves as a member of the manufacturing council. welcome. dr. jared bernstein served as chief economist and economic adviser to vice president biden and a member of president obama's team. before joining the obama administration, he was a senior economi economist. between 1995 and 1996

dr. shanna swan. welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm lesley stahl. we'll be exploring the world of science in this episode. later we'll bring you morley safer's story about the human genome patents being awarded to biotech companies and the proprietary control they now have over part of who you are. and then my report on a ubiquitous chemical called phthalates, which is in everything from perfume to children's toys, but which may also be causing birth defects. but first, steve kroft's story on the enormous amount of money being spent to treat people as they approach the end of their lives. how much money? well, in 2009, medicare paid $55 billion for doctor and hospital bills for patients as they approached the last two months of life. to give you some perspective, that's more than the budget for the department of homeland security or the department of education. and as we reported in 2009, most of those bills were paid for by the government with few or no questions asked and with an estima

who hates dr. seuss? green eggs and ham not my favorite book but the hate towards dr. seuss is ridiculous. and it's insane that lou dobbs is blaming the lorax and his mission on president obama. how is he responsible when at the time that book was written he was a ten-year-old kid swinging off a monkey bars. he had nothing to do with that book. >> keep one story together. if it doesn't fit the timeline do not come and tell me that he wasn't born in this country but he influenced a book that was written nine years before his birth. and this reference to occu-toddlers. this is a gave away. a desperate attempt to stand at the ocean and not just push the tide back but not ever see the tide. it's the future they're fearing. >> he doesn't under what occupy stand for. they don't understand what occupy is trying to do is ensure a future to these kids that you're trying to disenfranchise. if they occupy anything, it should be a corner because rick santorum is right. satan is in america and he's wearing a sweater vest. >> as always, good to see you. >> so nice to be back. >> tha

dr. pizzo? >> thank you. well, i certainly agree and appreciate that there is a broad array of contributing factors as has been stated, i think it is also important for us to be very sensitive to the words we use and the way that they're received. there is today a significant amount of perception felt by those suffering from chronic pain, and in fact those called to serve on behalf of patients that there is a significant amount of, quote, emotional contribution. and i think while there is no doubt that our emotions contribute to our physiology, i think that we have much work to do to look at our approach to pain, just as we do other neurological and psychiatric illnesses from a physiological perspective as well. this is a very complex, interrelated array of events. and i think one of the things that our committee certainly heard and the data describes, that one of the challenges that happens in medicine is that when we don't know an answer, we often ascribe it to something else. and those

dr. mays and many other people who are in history and whole host of people used the ymca movement to go around the world and interact in the ways that dr. mays met gandhi is he was going to india on the international ymca movement. this allowed the freedom to go and to travel. i want to put this a little bit quick context. india, south africa was still under british imperialism and one of the ways you could go was to say that you had religious duties to do or to carry out and mays traveled under that so he could meet leaders. in 1937 mays went not only to india, but he traveled through what we now call the middle east or near east. and this opened up a huge world to him. one, he interviewed gandhi for 90 minutes which he wrote about extensively in newspapers and secondly he also was traveling because he understood that christianity was a global religion itself and that christianity in and of itself had internal divisions. baptists had their sets of beliefs and others had their sets of bel

because i see in thurman and dr. king this clear picture that we have had a master teacher in our midst. we need to learn from him. and i hear this clear idea of the oneness of god that's above the master teacher. >> that reflects thurman's perspective. when we speak of thurman's spiritual influence and, as you said, spiritual and intellectual. i think that's important. i think it's spiritual, intellectual and personal. when i asked thurman what influence he had on martin luther king, jr., i think he if a -- facetiously said i had less influence on martin luther king, jr., than any other professor at boston university. we both laughed because this is a time when everyone is claiming they had a major influence on the thinking of martin luther king, jr., because he took a class from them or something. thurman and king would spend sunday afternoons watching baseball together. it's this intimate, personal dimension thurman will often speak of. but in talking with persons who were close to king at the time, they said mart

for dr.f connecting a civil rights perspective. at end of the clip, stevie flashes the peace sign. this, i think, this is the era of black power, which is associated with black militancy. in a lot of this music, you see trying to project a civil rights oriented vision of integration and racial harmony, even as they are protesting against the status quo. we tend to think of civil rights and black power as a clean break. i think when you look at the music, you get a sense of the continuity between civil rights and black power. ♪ ♪ heaven help the girl who walks the streets alone ♪ ♪ heaven help us all ♪ heaven help a black man if he struggles one more day ♪ ♪ heaven help the white man if he turns his back away ♪ ♪ heaven help us all ♪ heaven help us all ♪ heaven help us all ♪ heaven help us lord, hear our call ♪ ♪ heaven help a boy that won't reach 21 ♪ ♪ heaven help the man that gave that boy a gun ♪ ♪ heaven help the people with their backs against the wall ♪ >> i think he's alluding to that

dr. charles sanders, an associate professor at my alma mater kansas state university. dr. sanders received his undergraduate degree from louisiana state university, a masters in education from north georgia college, another master's degree from the united states naval war college, and a ph.d. from kansas state, where he has been teaching since 2001. his research is centered on military history, and he has written a well-regarded book on military prisons in the civil war titled "while in the hands of the enemy." one reviewer for the "georgia historical quarterly" wrote, quote, no one can claim to be a serious student of civil war prisons until reading sanders' book, unquote. what i admire most about dr. sanders' ability is his skill as a teacher, which i have heard about from students and others at kansas state. one anonymous student posted a comment on the ratemyprofessor's website exclaiming best teacher i have ever had! seriously! dr. sanders changed my life and outlook in history and c

and you can see dr. king who was arrested at the age of 26 in that panel, his first time being arrested because of that boycott. this is 1960. this is called the sit-in movement. five years after montgomery. what happened here was very simple. it was all about networking, organizing, and youth. you started a movement in 1960 with four young, black college men in north carolina who walked into a woolworth's that was segregated, sat down and were refused service. nothing new about that. it happened every day. what was new was the next day 12 students showed up at the same woolworth's. within two weeks, you had about eight to nine different cities, not just in that state, but all across the nation with these students showing up and sitting down. where did they come from? they were part of an organization known as snicc, student non violent coordinating committee. but you didn't just show up at a lunch counter and sit down. why is this so important? it was a lunch counter, but it was a symbol of everything s

i met dr. burke three years ago. i was in the hospital, in the waiting room for an hour and a half without being seen. i call her office and they said that they could see me. i take care of high risk kids who have had open-heart surgery. dr. burke has a passion for these children. the best thing about it is she listens to these patients. we know that, no matter the questions we have, she is there to support us. for her to open the bigger -- i told her that all that you really need is an eye clinic and a dentist. the need this -- it should be a one-stop for the bayview. they have the most kids coming out of bayview into foster care. she is there for referrals. whenever they need, they're they're to do it. it should be hands down. children in the bay view need their support. i would like to thank dr. burke, because she is there. i would never go anyplace else except bayview. thank you. i support her. [applause] supervisor cohen: thank you. >> hello, my name is jim abrams, from abrams crusher. i want to mention a couple

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in all one on one interview dr. phil says kids are growing up faster than they used to, surrounded by internet images that glamourize binge drinking and parties. involvement and parental involvement are more important than ever. >> we're not the only voice in our child's ear so we bettering be the best voice in their ear. >> what happens from the parental role where the voice is absent? >> when people come in and say, okay, i've got a 15-year-old kid here that is out of control. i say, i want to know what were you doing when the child iowa 5 and 6 and 7, because that is when they get this air of entitlement, this air of non- accountability to their parents. you got the tail wagging the dog. if you want a teenager that is making the right decisions and in control, you need to start early. and if you're saying well, great, if i heard this five years ago, i would have done that. but i didn't, so help me now, today. this is where you need to be prepared to do whatever it takes to get that child under control. >> dr. phi

dr. kim hand hammond is joining us to discuss your pet questions. >> and everything you are looking for in a home away from home is at the timonium fair grounds today. we'll take you to the r.v. show when we come back. >> it is not spring yet, but we'll have some blustery spring-like conditions >> well, this morning is an improvement over yesterday morning. yesterday was gray and chilly. this morning we have gotten rid of the clouds, and it is still chilly out there. but it is a much nicer day. we have breezy conditions in store today. winds are gusted into the 30's. on our radar nothing to speak of. most action up to our north. pennsylvania and west virginia. a couple little blips showing up on the radar. to our south between washington and annapolis, a few things showing up on the radar down there. we might see flurries today around the area coming in from the northwest be -- northwest. but what you see out there now will be what we have for the bulk of the day. the barometer is rising.

now with dr. john sarno, as i said, dr. sarno is the author of four book, the first being mind over back pain in 1984, the second "healing back pain" in 1991. the third is "mind-body prescription" 1998. and the fourth book is "the divided mind" which i have right here in 2006. so dr. sarno, welcome to our committee. please proceed. >> thank you, senator harkin. thank you for inviting me. pain syndromes can be grouped into two categories. those results from injury. this is the way i see it, from injury, surgery, or associated with severe infection as seen in patients in an acute hospital setting. and those with pain in the back, neck, shoulders, and limbs of a psychophysical origin. the high incidence of the latter group has evolved into a public health problem of great magnitude over the past 40 years. it has been estimated that 80% of the population have a history of one of these painful conditions, which has led to the performance of a great deal of unnecessary surgery and the widespread use of pain medication. it is trou

dr. fuller, a neuro pathologist and dr. maria lopez, a if your row pathologist -- neuro pathologist at uva say they found contusions on the brain and hemorrhaging on the brain stem, injuries that could only come from blunt force trauma. when asked to explain what she meant, dr. fuller described is as an acceleration of the head with a rapid stop. during the testimony, she used a model of the brain to show where she found the damage, a model passed to the jurors. when asked about the damage to the brain stem, dr. fuller said it was consistent with a twisting of the head or torque. dr. fuller said the brain stem controls many vital functions and the damage could have lead to love's death. on cross-examination, dr. fuller was asked if she had an an opinion on how she died and she said it was likely cardiac arrhythmia. dr. lopez used a process called app staining to determine the level of tearing. the evidence she found lead her to believe love died due to a lack of oxygen to the brain. at th

dr. phil mcgraw talks about the tenth anniversary of his top-rated daytime show. e. the star of the number one movie, ryan reynolds stops by. >>> as we do every morning, we begin with today's eye-opener, your world in 90 seconds. >>> we've reached an agreement. i'll call you back. >> there you have it. >> capitol hill negotiators seal a deal on the payroll tax cut with congress set to vote this week. >> i've learned to wait until i see the deal to know that there's a deal. >> this really does bring back memories. any old girlfriends here? >> mitt romney looks to regain momentum in his home state of michigan. >> it's really funny that governor romney attacked us as the insider and we're not. >> i swear this is real. this is a real political ad. >> he's firing at rick santorum. >> that was fun wrer in six weeks when santorum is endorsing romney. >> life begins at conception. >> oklahoma debate has a personhood bill. >> the underwear bomber could be hit with five life sentences when he faces

dr.airston says it only made sense to offer a free program to others, too. now there's a free waiting list to enroll in part because of the sluggish economy. >> so many people, in all walks of life across this country are going back to retraining and developing job skills. the market is becoming more competitive. >> reporter: the program pays for virtually everything. without that kind of financial assistance, price said she never would have even started and wouldn't have her certificate. >> and now i'm at the crossroads of can i do it? can i pay for my classes that i need to pay for? to move on? >> reporter: and that's because the program now offers the chance to earn an associate's degree for graduates. but that will cost. mary, back to you. >> we are pulling for kai. thank you, gigi. the program also offers a track to earn a four-year degree at a maryland university. >>> time now for a quick look at some of the stories you'll find in tomorrow morning's edition of the baltimore sun. mor