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from a member and first meeting constantly connected with the dr soon they were already communicating with each other the boy tugged at the doctor's beard and took his hat from it as and we were surprised it was like a miracle the doctor damaged wasted no time treating the boys illness my son like the doctor very much he played with his beard and moustache. and only always met outside daniel's house in the morning at about seven o'clock because of us and without their dad which normally came by bicycle wearing his hat on the thing it was a very funny spectacle. the doctor would put his hands around the boy's head like this. he kept his hands close to the back of the head like this sometimes he pressed his hands against that. otherwise he kept them a short distance away if you wanted to present that other brain he would put his hands on these keep them there for a long time. did what traditional medicine can't feel to do finally began taking note of the people around him and tried to talk with them ok now show his emotions and indicate what he wanted through gestures. as soon as the bo

dr. gill lost his teaching job at a university, all the way to indianapolis, where dr. ll got his first full-time job performing autopsies. so, he hadn't been a forensic pathologist before? >> no. >> bergman: and he goes to indianapolis, where they let him do autopsies? >> yes, and a lot of them. he did hundreds and hundreds of autopsies. i started to focus on indianapolis, and all of a sudden, my world opened up. he had been arrested and charged with drunk driving on his way to work early in the morning. from there, it was story after story about his incompetence, stories about his failure to make proper diagnoses. deaths of children, which are the most horrible things anybody should ever have to live through, and he was messing those up. and so, these families were just ripped apart because he couldn't figure out what he was doing. >> bergman: these scandals led to dr. gill being fired, and so he headed west to a job in los angeles. >> dr. gill was failing miserably in los angeles. he could not do competent autopsies. >> bergman: and that's when dr. gill found a job do

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seven more of which had a very high opinion of dr talbot's the scales. he wished of a long and fruitful period of cooperation with him. this celebration marks the clinic's twentieth anniversary. dragon tabish was among the dignitaries invited to attend it. thank you for coming nice to see you. doctrines of which turned up a public functions in your new contacts and struck up new friendships. was one of the habits his new friends they met at the medical conference dedicated to alternative treatments so he asked her to be his assistant. dr doggett invited me to go to a sicko boy to examine him as we went to the house where he lived there we met the child his name was then you look at his parents. your. meal was born in two thousand and four into the family of political fugitive branco. when the war broke out franco his young wife and her parents moved from bosnia to belgrade that . became seriously ill when he was one year old he paid no attention to the people around him his mental development slowed down he made no attempt to engage with anybody not even

last week, for instance, we had a dr. it was maybe a half an hour more of discussion. it was time certain at 6:00. that item went on here longer than in public comment. we must have discussed that item for 45 minutes to an hour. it was time certain, and we continue that. it would have been awkward to say, ok, we are cutting off public testimony for this dr, and we're going to our time certain item at 6:00 p.m. now and you guys will have to come back at 1:00 in the morning, because that is when we will be finishing our conversation on cpmc. and the cpmc discussion ended at 11:30. i just think that is rooted. commissioner fong? commissioner fong: very interesting comments. when we go to at 10:30 and beyond, everyone is weary. commissioner olague: yes. what do you do with that? commissioner fong: i think that contributes to attention. even if we did not go to 10:30 start, currently we generally have a 1:30 start. there is a 4.5 hour difference between those two, allowing the regular items on the calendar to work its way out in 4.5 hours. if we did go to for what 30, that

as you know, this is a staff- initiated dr, which is rare. the reason we are putting this before you today is to do not feel it complies with residential design guidelines. in specific, we are asking for a 15-foot front setback. originally, the project came to us with pay a fairly large stair penthouse. that has since been removed. we also received additional letters of support from members on the street, 10 letters in total. there is support of their for this proposal. the owners have lived on the street for a long time and have talked to their neighbors. however, the department -- it is hard to take that into consideration, the fact that neighbors all support it. how we look at vertical editions is that we look at the pattern. we have two buildings on this block of day street, 11 of which are three story buildings with no setbacks. for the proposed or existing building, it is in a group of five buildings, which for us is a clear enough pattern of two- story buildings. although this is not like the sun set, where you have blocks and blocks of

dr a suffer a drop of it is a retired colonel he was a radiation specialist for the u.s. armed forces for many years the rock of age analyze data on the national guard soldiers from new york who were poisoned by d. you the study led to a bitter controversy with the pentagon. when it hits the target. of your radio project time that is made of the please give us a you produces very high temperature. that impact. keats dust radioactive dust and depleted uranium and that infinitesimal number of the particles is spread in the atmosphere. the single most dangerous. ideation that they just in the nature. of the group in the vicinity of known differentiated so produce is so much big and genetic changes including cancer leukemia. and wiping out of the immune system and so. i'm telling you here for the public to listen to this interview that we are the inning with that concrete and danger for the on the planet earth. on this issue you have a lot of propaganda that's come from the u.s. government but you have a lot of people who are in my opinion gauging and propaganda coming from t

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vice president garcia: so it is a very recent picture? dr. ojo: yes. president goh: dr. ojo, in cases where how the person appears as likely to come up, it might make sense to have the photo and a low as the closed session in order to see it. -- and allow us a closed session. >> i think it is an issue. he has admitted to the sale of cigarettes to a minor. however, to some degree, the factual elements of the cases what did the person actually look like, and that potion -- person in the photograph looks like a baby. it looks like a very young person. if we were in court, it would not be admissible in its current condition. i understand that that is not the objective here. but in fairness and the understand the facts and understand someone who had been traveling and had been suffering from jet lag, that is what i am asking to have considered. commissioner fung: when she turns 18. if we were to reduce this to 15 days, then we would be perpetuated in a performance --

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at the end of the discussion, we will have a question and answer session. dr. richards, it is my understanding you have some personal experience in this area. i would ask you to share your experiences with us and tell us about the barriers that exist for people who have a criminal record. >> i'm a convicted felon. i'm an ex-con. and i'm a professor. i'm the leader of the convert criminology group. if you just go to google and google convict criminology, you will find our website. our group was actually started many years ago by professor john irwin, who was at a san francisco state university for 30 years. john recently passed away. john, even after he retired in 1995, for nearly 15 years helps me to organize the convicts criminology group. there is now 30 of us. we are all ex cons, ph.d., and professors at different universities. because i'm a convicted felon, i should say i went to federal prison for nine years. >> [inaudible] i came to a public forum, which included a lot of attorneys, to try to rectify these matters. >> [inaudible] >> i am here. i will be ou

in a fourteen year study commissioned by the veterans administration dr melissa mcdermott has been studying a group of soldiers affected by do you split the veterans into those who only inhaled do you dust and those who have had do you shrapnel in their bodies. looking at the whole group based on their low versus the high uranium we don't see large differences between the two groups i would also like to make the point that an elevated here in your rainy i'm fourteen years after you were exposed is not normal so by no means are we saying that we haven't found anything it's very complicated isn't it at least at present fourteen years out from first exposure in one nine hundred ninety one we are not seeing health differences that we would have expected to see that were uranium based the reality is just thirty two people in that program out of the nine hundred the pentagon has said were heavily exposed and you know you have to ask why do they refuse to do a bigger study it's the don't look don't find phenomena that are described for you know they don't want to know the answer and they are conte

i will go ahead and make a motion to take dr and approve the project with a 2 ft. set back from the current proposal in the rear, regaining 2 feet to the side, and moving the spiral staircase to the south. president olague: do you want to also include the steps recommendations? commissioner sugaya: yes. >> that recommendation actually is contradictory to staff recommendation. i would also like to have clarification on the height. the height is fine so you do not need a reduction on the height? president olague: that is right. sorry about that. we seem to have a motion. is there a second? commissioner moore: i would like to have commissioner sugaya rephrase the motion. commissioner sugaya: i think we're just taking out the stuff modification. >> for clarity, you are removing the staff modification. you're putting back the 2 feet on this side said beck, but you're reducing the rear pop out by two feet, and the spiral staircase which shift to the south. commissioner antonini: i do not know if that is doable. president olague: i am just trying to get a -- did you hear

please, go ahead. >> it's a question for both of you. dr. onnie, you came from very humble beginnings. i wanted to know your, your interest and desire to escalate yourself. did it come from a parent? and then you also had a conflicting message which was you're never going to be quite good enough. and so i kind of want to know where that came from. >> you know -- >> and then a question for gloria, i guess i'd like to know what tape was in your head that you had to work against. >> it's interesting, both my parents, my father was a navy steward and joined as a servant class, my mother was a dentist who went to dental school in the philippines in the 1950s and very wealthy family, so it was very -- and then when she, my mother married and became a housewife and was always depressed and hated it, hated it. so i grew up in a family where dad was the breadwinner. mother could have made more money had she gone to work but was sort of downtrodden. and a lot of it was she decided this is my job, but unfortunately, wasn't happy. i was still growing up

we have yet to see in the two would have years and of course right now this isn't a priest preoccupy would be election dr west our poll came out just a few weeks ago indicating that confidence among americans is at a thirty five year low that brings us to a carter era presidency i mention this because i know that you are planning and events for early april and you're calling on all americans to take part in this event from what i read is about how warring the people of this country to fight back against the corporate rule as you call it you talk to me about this event has actually led by my dear sister the very distinguished professor an activist friend says fuck it and we will be a judge in the morning of church two o'clock tuesday april fifth it will be and hundreds of schools will be piping in to zero in on the teaching and. we'll have a dialogue for two hours or so then they'll have another hour and a. have dialogue to focus on local issues all around the nation and it is an attempt to reinforce this radical democratic awakening that's taking place in the united states made very much by our brothers

way for our own good so we would not grow up warped in any way, and all of this was inspired by a guy named dr. fredric wertham, who wrote a really influential book called seduction of the innocent in 1954, and he suggested, among other things, that comic books were a negative-- had a negative impact on kids, that it encouraged juvenile delinquency and put bad thoughts in their heads-- kind of--many of the same arguments you kind of hear today about video games, and he got a lot of attention. carmine, you were an artist in the industry at that time. do you remember wertham? do you have a sense of him? yeah, we got a sense of him when they first hit the airwaves, and suddenly we were being attacked all over the place, and i'm looking under the desk for what i was doing wrong. i couldn't figure it out, but it got pretty bad, and then, all of the sudden, kefauver jumped into the picture. estes kefauver. yeah, he wanted to be president at that time. so he found a great vehicle here, and he jumped in, and all of the sudden, the attack got vicious, and the people who were distributing books got very

a little concern even as far away as tokyo at this radio actually. could be seriously damaging ok well thank you very much for the latest from tokyo there thank you. now we have dr robert blake of say a research associate professor of nuclear history and culture as you know him up piece institute give us his view on the explosion. having studied the history of these incidents in the past i know that at this reactor there had been attempts to reduce the pressure inside the reactor core and to cool the reactor to avoid a meltdown. to see an explosion as we saw on that building obviously indicates failure in those efforts. clearly the situation in this reactor is not under control if there is an explosion of that sort that blows the building apart so it would. it's hard to say exactly what it reflects but it would certainly indicate the likelihood of a partial meltdown in the tenchi ality of full meltdown in order to keep the fuel of a nuclear power plant cool if you will is cooled with which water the water the. reactor rods will. boil that water and that will escape steam as which will be somewhat radioactive so new water needs to be continually pumped through in

a white waiting room. i closed the black waiting room. >> reporter: when dr. brooks arrived here in 1983, a lot of the homes didn't have indoor plumbing and the health situation was pretty bleak. while things have gotten better, tutwiler faces a lot of challenges. rates of unemployment, poverty and obesity remain high. for inspiration, dr. brooks turns to her faith. you see, dr. ann brooks is also sister ann brooks. as brooks helps her patients, she looks for a little help from above. >> as i examine a patient when they're breathing in and out and i hear the breath of life, i pray for them. >> reporter: to brooks, she's answering a higher calling. but to the people of this delta town -- >> i would say she's an angel sent from heaven. >> reporter: she's been an answer to their prayers. thanh truong, nbc news, tutwiler, mississippi. >>> when we come back here tonight, our remembrance of the legendary elizabeth taylor. >>> next at 6:00, a wet commute ahead. we've got a look at the storm rolling in. and vandals cause a sewage spill at a popular east bay crick. >>>

our sales manager was a close friend of dr. king. martin luther king had a hard time finding a quiet spot to be alone and just be himself. this sales manager would bring him to the station at night when the station was closed except for belva still doing the log back there for the next day's cast. they would come in, often just shadows i could see in the other room from where i was sitting. i saw him a number of times. one time frank came in with dr. king and said to me as he was there, you know martin, don't you? >> i said, no. i don't know martin. in any case, we had casual words. it was an honor to note that i had the opportunity to shake his hand and later covered him as a reporter, which was also a wonderful thing. >> what do you remember about him that perhaps people who have only heard about him would be interested in knowing? >> i think just seeing him in the off moments, you realized he was a human being that needed the same kind of quiet time that we do. he was carrying a burden for the whole nation, and i think the burden d

dr. laura nmp orel. i have been a practicing ob/gyn for the last six years. so this is from dr. kirsch. as chief to have st. luke's medical staff i'm writing to express support for the master plan. served as a member of the blue ribbon panel and can confirm they have revised plans to reform to the recommendations of the panel. in particular, cpmc has committed $250 million for the initial phase of rebuilding the st. luke's campus prucking an entirely new in-patient facility. it is also important to know that -- these recommendations were based on the analysis expressed by the community outreach task force as well. we who practice at st. louis -- will vastly improve the health care resources for necessary inpatient care and in addition it will facilitate full access to our patients for the service s of the entire cpmc system of care. for these reasons, the medical executive committee of st. lukes strongly supports the plans to rebuild cpmc. thank you. >> good evening president tierney and president olague and commissioners of health and planning commission. i'm the chief administrative of

a lot of us sit all day and it can be bad for us. now there may be an inexpensive easy solution if you're stuck at your desk. dr. m mulvihill joins us with that. >> allen, consider this. you can do a full hour's worth of cardio, but undo the benefit by sitting for hours at your desk. if you can't push away from your desk, try pushing something else. >> good morning, this is construction -- >> reporter: kathleen works the front desk. >> i sit all day. >> reporter: kathleen doesn't take all this sitting, sitting down. she is actually on the move under her desk. a portable pedal machine. >> it gives uv a vitality and doesn't take a lot. it's not like i have to jog around the block. i can move my muscles, legs and bones at my desk. >> reporter: researchers tested a pedal device on 18 full-time employees with desk jobs. the workers loved it easy to use, didn't interfere with work and they pedaled five to 13 miles a day burning up to 500 extra calories. not only that they reported they felt better. >> it's a great idea. >> reporter: she is the fitness manager at the jewish community center in san francisco. she says an

we sat down with the hate them out a spokes person of the arab commission for human rights has been keeping track of events in the country. we're talking today to dr mona a spokesman of the arab commission for human rights in paris. to monitor the arab commission for human rights also the prosecutor general for the international tribunal to begin an investigation into events in libya and their decision to begin the investigation was made how will it be carried out. oh. first of all the investigation will be made under the authority of the un security council in accordance with clause thirteen of the rome statute this clause in tiles the prosecutor general to perform an investigation without any preconditions or limitations and enables him to move freely and used to the benefit of the investigation anything that may be needed and anything at the suspected criminals hiding from the investigation that's what we've achieved by now two of five groups of our representatives have arrived in benghazi and started working among them are experts in international law in medicine libyan legislation and economy five representatives of the arab commission for hu

dr. warren browner, a physician overseeing the $2.5 billion rebuild of cpmc. here to introduce the mayor of san francisco, please join me in welcoming dr. warren browner. [applause] >> thanks, steve. it is now a great pleasure for me to introduce our new mayor. i think everybody knows mayor lee has been a diligent worker in senior management met -- management under many mayors. he was appointed our city administrator in 2005 and then appointed again in 2010. he was unanimously selected the interim mayor by our board of supervisors on january 11 of this year. mayor lee has promised all of us to be inclusive, to tackle things head on, and to move the bar for. we are all in need of that strength of conviction at this point in time. please join me in welcoming the 43rd mayor of our fair city of san francisco, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you. good morning, everybody. thank you very much for being here this morning. it is my honor to join all of you today. i just wanted to let you know, you know, i am not known to be reading of all bunch of speeches. i really l

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