i met with dr. gary alter here and he was wonderful and i learned a lot. >> are you trying to open the topic up for chazs for the public? >> the topic, i even -- he did a physical examination of me. i left them film that. but i said of full stop, i'm not going to go any further than that. because why would you need to know? the fact of the matter is, living as a woman is different than living as a man, but i want to be equal to everyone else. how do you treat a woman differently than a man? open a door for her? that's kind of '50s. i think that stuff is over. >> and dr. alter is here with us, the surgen who did your surgery. and you courageously documented some component on film and it's called "alexis ar quet, she's my brother." is that correct? let's take a look at this. >> i remember the first time i ever saw a transsexual. >> where was it? >> it was in chicago and we were really little. i must have been like 6 or 7 and you were probably 4 or 5. >> where was it at? >> it was at a coffee shop and we ha

. >> reporter: dr. garylittle is the hospital's medical director. >> it makes me want to look at the whole system and to see where the ball is being dropped. >> reporter: and that's the main goal of this data: to give hospital it is tools for the first time to see how they measure up to their competitors. >> it's a wealth of information that will make us all better shoppers and put pressure on hospital management to do better. >> reporter: and doing better could save the health care system a lot of money. medicare alone estimates it spends about $17 billion a year on all those heart patients and pneumonia patients who keep getting readmitted to hospitals again and again, katie. >> couric: all right. nancy cordes. nancy, thanks very much. dr. er if ashton is a cbs news medical correspondent. jennifer, should you actually use this report when you're seeking out treatment at an area hospital? >> not necessarily, katie. you know, all hospitals might not be equally good or bad at everything. so if you have a choi

dr. kilman. he ran into gary at the office where he worked. he knew the diagnose instantly. gary spears had a severe case of untreated diabetes and a simple blood test confirmed it. >> he immediately began to run tests and told me for the first time i was a diabetic and the reason why my body was not healing was because i was a diabetic and had to get my glucose numbers under control. >> reporter: spears had medical insurance and thought he had good care. he wondered why his illness had gone untreated for so long. >> i believe now, after, you know, many years after this happening, that it had to be because of my color. the color of my skin. >> reporter: because you are black? >> yes. they did not take that extra step to give me the medical care that i deserve and was entitled to as a human being. >> reporter: dr. neil calman says it is a pattern not just in new york. >> it's been absolutely proven through studies that a black man and a white man going to the hospital with exactly the same complaint will be treated differently. that has been shown through study after study. >

and then robert, the chief of medicine, dr. gary floyd, promises to squeeze into save frgs those federal programs, they worry. but among other things, could exacerbate a shortage in texas. >> in texas we have a significant problem with medicaid. only 38% of our positions port pat in medicaid programs. if we start freezing them and we're going to see people in positions will want to participate in those programs. >> while public hospitals see the bulk of the. >> and then and we even had one time a gentlemen that didn't have health insurance and i asked him, charlie, why don't you have that? and i said, what do you do? he runs an insurance agency. what? he says, well, i can't afford it. >> gregory proudly displays his political allegiance as he watches the debate in washington and gets more and more frustrated. >> a typical fight? >> his first reflex is to blame republicans but democrats not only have the white house but big majority teas in the house and senate. i and should spend time in his shoes. >> they really need to get their h

the president of george washington medical center, trent cable is the ceo of the hospital here and dr. garyople here so it is a nice opportunity and i'm glad i'm here also. [laughter] chris asked me to make a few comments before we started and i thought when i would do is talk a little about the establishment of the trauma system that occurred about 30 or 40 years ago which i was involved with locally and i think it is important to do that because it gives us, it is pertinent to what we will talk about later on. back in the '50s and '60s the handling was abysmal. there was no ems system and no 911. the ambulances for nothing more than converted cadillacs there is some of your old enough to remember you push a patient in and run to the nearest center, nearest hospital and at the hospital they could find just about anybody. a small hospital where i was a medical student there was a rule that every member of the staff had to serve one day a month or two in the er so is a psychiatrist, a pediatrician and neurologist had to be there and obviously didn't have a lot of experience so nobody had a l

dr. brent gary. good morning to you.u're all about the lunar rover. >> yes, ma'am. >> so tell me act the one we're looking at now. >> this is within of the apollo rovers. they had rovers just like this one that allowed them to drove further away from the landing site, where a ittle more of the interesting joel was. if you look at it, at the end of the day, they had to come right back to where they landed. nasa is developing a new lunar electric rove. this one allows the astronauts to drive away from the landing sites and when they get back into it, it's also not only the work environment but their living environment. they can travel for days even weeks away from the original site to explore the surface. >> it's like a lunar mobile home? >> exactly. i'll be talking about what it was like to live and work in the electric rover last fall during within o. field tests that nasa had. >> what was it like? >> it was awesome. it's like camping but you're doing a lunar simulation. it's a district the participate in a field test li

gary. appreciate that. >>> meantime the man accused of killing dr. george tiller told a judge he is not guilty. he faces life in prison if convicted. today witnesses testify they saw him put a gun to the abortion provider's head inside a kansas church last month. they described seeing him pull the trigger and speed away from the chunk. dr. tiller was one of the few doctors in the nation to offer late-term abortions. >>> plaxico burress is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow testifying before a grand jury about what happened the night he shot himself in the leg at a new york nightclub last year. he faces up to 3.5 years in prison on weapons charges. he has pled not guilty in the case. >>> a judge could rule as early as tomorrow in the case of banita jacks. she is the dc woman accused of killing her four daughters. attorneys made their closing arguments in the bench trial yesterday. >>> tonight police are hoping you can help bring a missing 13- year-old girl home. take a moment to look at this picture of nancy. she was last seen last tuesday at her house in indian head maryland. her family says

gary, indiana. dancers performing a routine to "thriller." a tribute to the hometown hero, michael jackson. we're joined now by dr.reath creme, psychologist who specializes in addiction. he's medical director of the control center in beverly hills. what do you make of these reports that michael was taking ten xanax pills a night? again, that's not a fact. >> ten xanax pills, it depends on what dose it is. there's two milligram pills, one milligram, 0.25. if it's two milligrams, it's a lot. >> larry: there are reports he had employees getting them for h him. what kind of signal does that send? >> a big red warning flag, danger, danger. at the point when you're undergoing deception to design a drug use program where you can get these drugs from other people, it's a big-time red flag that you need help. >> larry: have you ever heard of anyone taking diprivan at home? >> never. >> larry: it's anesthesia? >> it's an anesthesia drug you use in an o.r. just the fact that you would have it at home is red flag number two. it's all adding up as a definitive problem. >> larry: does it look like people were involved that shou

dr. feelgood in the valley and all of a sudden they're getting 30, 60, 90 pills. >> larry: the father, joe jackson, is now entering the memorial at the baseball park in garyindiana, of course where all of the jacksons were born. a city not many miles from chicago. robin, does this -- as a prosecutor, would you be looking around here? would you be -- would you be inserting yourself? >> as a prosecutor, i would want to keep my eyes wide open right now to look at all of the people that are coming forward now, look for what everyone has to say. i'm very curious as to joe jackson's position now, all of a sudden he's calling foul play, he's had some other interesting colorful pasts that makes me question his integrity. i'm looking at it all. >> larry: how would he know if it was foul play? >> especially if he didn't have a relationship with him for a number of years. >> larry: we're going to take a break. when we come back, we're going to meet two top medical examiners. our panel will hold because we'll be coming back to them and back to gary, indiana. introducing one a day women's 2o. the first complete women's multivitamin in a drink mix. with more calcium an

gary spears says dr.regain some trust in the medical profession but he still believes he suffered too much, for too long, just because he is black. it is interesting, john, i was sort of thinking we were going to do a story on insurance discrimination, looking at is there a difference between people on medicaid versus people on private insurance. as we started doing these interviews, this issue of race kept coming up over and over again. i can tell you as we interviewed a lot of people, a lot of people are out there who feel that they've been discriminated against with regard to their health care because of race, john. >> so why does this happen, sanjay? you're a doctor. you take an oath to help out everybody who comes along. why is there this inherent disparity? >> i don't know, john. as you can probably tell from some of those interviews, i was stunned as anybody else. sort of as i was hearing this over and over again, i don't know. it's not an access issue as far as we can tell. people with the exact s

gary hepner was one of those witnesses and he stood next to dr. tiller as he was shot. he followed the shooter out into the church parking lot and this is what he says happened next. take a listen. >> as i exited the building, i got a couple steps into the grass. and he turned around and said i've got a gun and i'll shoot you. and i just froze. >> another witness, keith martin, told a similar story of confronting the shooter who both witnesses identified as scott roder in the parking lot. both of them essentially saying that mr. roder seemed intent on killing anyone who stood in his way. shepard: the suspect never talked today, right? >> no. scott roder said absolutely nothing today. his attorney entered his not guilty plea for him. he has been giving several interviews in which he has not admitted responsibility but has said he believes the killing of dr. tiller was justified. so no word from him today. he listened intently. he took some notes but didn't say a single thing. shepard: have the larbes let on -- the lawyers let on whether they will put him on the stand? >>

gary flowers. [applause] >> thank you, professor ogletree, and thank you, reverend jackson, for your use of a skewed analysis, but also, your effective execution. dr. king warned we could have the process of analysis, whether in our families or social clubs, lot of folks have an opinion. but very few, it is the rare one who can analyze the situation, make it plain and and execute the solution. thank you, reverend jackson. national black caucus of lead -- state legislators and officials and national conference of black mayors and council of negro women, it goes on and on. our job, in the words of our black, is if we can provide the information to the people, they can make intelligent decisions. so a lot of our role and my role is to harness the effect of leadership of our national organizations not only so they collaborate one to another but can transmute that information to you. as we commemorate the life of michael jackson, one of his songs and lyrics therein say he wants to start with the man in the mirror. i modified that to save a man and woman in the mirror. it is you who have come out today in the listening audience and the viewing audience,