dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at the nyu langone medical center. did you know he's also the author of "the inner puls pulse: unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> and dr. david samadi who's the new chair of urology at lennox hill hospital and professor of urology at hofstra lij school of medicine. >> we'll get there. and i never saw him so happy about it. congratulations. >> great opportunity. >> it must be the heat. i mean, the heat is just unbelievable out there in some parts of our country. 124 degrees or so. in death valley. and las vegas authorities saying there that the heat may have killed at least one man inside his home. they say it's nearly 120 degrees today throughout the southwest and those temperatures, look at that red. not going down at all anytime soon. so dr. siegel, what advice do you have on what we need to do? it's more than just staying in air-conditioning. >> you know something? our weather people report about all of the extreme weather we get, tornadoes, hurricanes, but it's actually heat that kills more people

dr. siegel joins us to assess the risk for america. stay with us.r this missn i upgraded your smart phone. ♪ right. but the most important feature of all is. the capital one purcseraser. i can redeemhe double miles i earned with my venture card to erase recent travel purchases. d with a w clicks, this msion never happened. uh, what's this tton do? [ electricy zaps ] ♪ you requested backup? yes. s did. what's in yo wallet? matt cases of the of middle east syndrome deadly respiratory virus slows -- shows is more deadly than and fisa. 77 have been reported a forward p/e those are resulting in death joining us now is dr. siegel professor of medicine at nyu this is touted by the debris joe as the deadliest thing around and in recent memory. how concerned should we be? >> right now it is too early but not too early to pay attention so it is good that we talk about their. the world health organization has a history of overreacting to scare everybody it is the coronavirus one of the common cold virus. tea to the most serious example was not as bad as they t

dr. mark siegel. and doctor, i have to say, i have never heard of a virus that has better than a 50% death rate. this is stunning stuff. what is happening here? >> well, let me walk you through this. >> tt's wh you're here. >> it's certainly something we need to take seriously, any time a new virus emerges and we don't know what the scope of it's going tobe. we don't knownd you're right, the initia virus looks like it s a hgh death rate among the cases. but here's the problem. first of all, that dr. margaret chan is t very shy when she says threat to the entire world. she said this before. >> dr. margaret chan, director of the world health organization. >> she said it with bird flu, could kill up to 90 million, she said. she said it with swine flu. she says it every time there's an emerging vir. >>she's an alarmist. >> she did it with sars. now, sars, here's something very teresting. sars in 2003 infected 7,000 people and killed about 700. when it first emerged, sars, it was about a 50% death rate and

dr. marc siegel is with us.ng, that undr obamacare, all doctors are encouraged, pushed towards putting your entire medical history on-line? is that accurate? >> that is acaccrate. in fact, you're penalized if you don't do that. now, i'm mentioned-- something i found out is probably going to be disturbing to your viewers. i i' working now with electroni records and i like it, but i noticed if i see a patient and another doctor saw the patient before, their records are already on-line, meaning i i' sharing information unwittingly with other physicians, not all my patients want that. not all my patients want every one of their physicians to know everything about them. at least to efficiency and medical care, stuart, but privacy can be compromised. if you add the federal govegovment to that pool. who knows what's going to happen with that information. the govegovment will know if you're depressed and what stuart: the federal government knows this? >> don't hundreds of thousand of people die every year because of mis

dr. mark siegel. i've never heard of a virus that has better than a 50% death rate.now, this is stunning stuff. what is happening here? >> well, lou, let me walk you through this. >> that's why you're here. >> it's certainly something we need to take seriously. any time a new virus emerges and we don't know what the scope it have is going to be. the initial virus looks like it has a high death rate among the cases. here's the problem -- first of all, dr. margaret chan is not very shy when she says threat to the entire world. she said it with bird flu, could kill up to 90 million. she said it with swine flu. >> she's an alarmist. >> she did it with sars. sars in 2003, lou, infected about 7,000 people and killed about 700. when it first emerged, sars was about a 50% death rate and everyone panicked, it's going to kill the entire world. the city of toronto was cordoned off literally and asia spent $30 billion keeping people from traveling and sequestering people. and you know what? that's the real story about sars. it's the fear, it's the panic. so now i see on tv every

dr. marc siegel, you know. ine at nyu langone medical center and a member of the fox news medical a-team. all of sudden, dr. fer shine, obesity is a disease. good idea or not? >> good idea. what we are faced with for some years people are undertreated because they are overweight. overweight does lead to a number of serious medical conditions. diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure. those particular conditions are often neglected because doctors are afraid to have the discussion in the first place. this opens up the discussion. jon: dr. siegel, i get that. isn't it really a martie of diet and exercise? if you do those two things in the proper balance don't you lose weight? >> jon, it is not always a matter of that. here in lies the problem. sometimes it is lifestyle. sometimes exercise will treat it, getting off the couch. sometimes it is only diet related. sometimes it is other metabolic conditions we have to figure out. i don't think medically strictly speaking obesity is a disease. i think it's a syndrom

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dr. siegel, and i agree, he said put the kids first, kids deserve to be at the top of the list, at least sickest, include them in that list. i am in favor of from ruling. >> dana, what about you? >> i think it is amazing what her parents were able to do. they got public support behind her to the point that a judge intervened. then you had a change in policy. now you have this surgery today. science moves faster than policy makers usually. i think now that science is able to take parts of the lung to help her be able to survive, i think there will be a wholesale new debate about what is going to be allowed. i learned a lot about organ donation and being an organ donor is important. talk about it with your family, on your driver's license, it says whether you can be an organ donor. >> if this girl doesn't make it, is the accusation you pushed too far, young kids can't handle this kind of operation, and why did we do it? >> i'm sure there will be some people that may come and say that. let's hope we don't have to have that conversation, let's hope she does make it, but i will say this. this

dr. marc siegel. associate professor of medicine at the nyu lango medical center. "unlocking the secret to health." >> and dr. david issamadi. doctors, good morning. >> starting july 1st. >> starting july 1st. first of all, happy father's day. >> thank you. >> to all of you. >> exactly. speaking of father's day, what a better way to take care of ourselves. ask questions what we need to do as we get older. let's say you start at 20 years old. what type of tests should we have? >> i want to wish my father a happy birthday. >> happy birthday. how appropriate that we're mentioning ages. >> i'm not in any one of those specific categories. >> i thought you were in your 20s. >> what do you do when you're 20 years old. >> if you come in with a sprained ankle, don't expect your doctor to do nothing and treat the ankle. the doctor has in his or her mind what you need for a screening tool. i ask you what your history is, i check your heart and lungs, i check your abdomen, i check you for hernias, add a chest x-ray and an ekg. i might have done that ekg earler if you're in spor

dr. siegel, great to have you on, very smart guy, on top of all of this. >> thanks, eric. >>> a group ofators is worried the health care law could let a convicted felon get hold of your private information. concern about what they call the low standards for becoming one of the thousands of navigators hired to enroll people in health care. vince kol anyways has details. we hire and a half gayors to teach people about obama care, but we don't know the background of these people, is that what the issue is? >> that's correct. that's what the nine republican senators want detail on, they want clarity from hhs. kathleen sebelius from health and human services, they came out with all of these guidelines with who the navigators would be, but it doesn't have enough clarity. in each of the state exchanges, they're required to have two organizations per exchange administer, become the navigators. one of those organizations has to be a nonprofit which suggests that obama care has arranged for community organizing groups are going to be out there providing health care information. problem. >> let me

dr. marc siegel is a professor of medicine at nyu. why the baby boomers and why this announcement now?first of all, i'm really proud of the task force who are primary care doctors like myself who are always going out there and saying don't get a mammogram, don't get a psa, really essential screening tests suddenly coming out and saying hepatitis c is a huge problem, let's screen baby boomers for it. i'm so happy they did that because three-quarters of the 3.9 million people in the u.s. who have hepatitis c are baby boomers. why? because back when i was a kid, we didn't have the test for hepatitis c. you couldn't tell you had it. jenna: and how do you get hepatitis c? >> from blood transfusions, drug use, from illicit sexual behavior, all kinds of ways. but we weren't testing blood back in the '70s and '80s for this. we didn't know what it was. same thing with people that might have been exposed from drug use or sex. we didn't test them, we didn't know how to do it. so a lot of baby boomers have this and don't know you have it because you can have it and not get sick. jenna: sometimes y

dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at the nyu langone medical center. did you know he's also the author of "the inner puls pulse: unlocking the secret code of sickness and

dr. mark siegel. james gandolfini, only 51 years old.young. >> and maybe that should be a wakeup call. physical inactivity caused 35% of deaths from heart disease and only 22% of americans exercise regularly. what about weight? we have to all lose weight as a nation, we have to become more active. more than that we don't know. cardiac risk factors you've got to go to your doctor, high blood pressure, diabetes. we see him smoking cigars all the time. cigar smoking you actually inhale. i don't know how much he did. but you have to go to the doctor and see the risk factors. take aspirin and drugs to lower your cholesterol. stuart: hold on a second. i'm going to give you a news item. american medical association now officially labels obesity as a disease. okay? so if you're overweight, it's not your fault, you're sick. go see the doctor. if you drink too much, it's not your fault, you're an alcoholic, that's a disease. that judgment, that obesity is a disease takes away the moral factor. you're not responsible for yourself. no, it's out of y

dr. marc siegel is here to debunk what is fact and what is fiction.urprised myself by several of these. i like to think that i know everything, but apparently i don't. you can drink any you can drink -- any drink can hydrate you? fact or fiction? >> fiction. water is what you want to have. sugary drinks and fruit drinks draw water out of your cells. people think i'm so sweated up from working out, let me have a cold beer. you have a cold beer it dehydrates you, defeats the purpose. water is what you want to have or iced tea, something with electrolytes but not a lot of sugar. >> sports drinks, look if they have a lot of sugar? >> you do not want something with a lot of sugar. straight water is the best. >> you've been working out. you're hot, sweaty, want to take a cold shower to cool down. fact or fiction? >> also fiction. the cold shower clamps down your blood vessels and your body doesn't feel the full effect. drinking a cold substance helps. take a cold glass of water, that will help cool you down but your skin will not cool down from that extra c

dr. mark siegel. >> she will need immunosuppress hant therapy.he is at a high risk of infection and rejection of the lung. in sarah's case and all other cystic fibrosis other organs are affected including the pancreas and liver. those have to be watched carefully. >> doctors say if the lungs do become available she will get them within just a few hours. >> shepard: a tall hill for sarah to climb. what more do we know about the 11-year-old boy? >> javier acosta. in august he could be on the adult list anyway. the reason his parents went to court is because they do not think he will make if until august. here is is the problem his lung score that we just talked about is only 39. exactly half of what sarah's score is. he is healthier but way down the transplant list but his parents say they are willing to try anything especially since his older brother also died of cystic fibrosis at the age of nine waiting for new lungs. >>> one pediatric lung specialist says patients with cystic fibrosis live to 31 on average and says that lung transplants essenti

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dr. marc siegel is your host.plain why dads always know best and why some of these questions might not be true. are you ready? >> dads don't know best. we're not the smartest. >>brian: i've been watching raymond and king of queens. i get the sense men don't know everything. first question: true or false? if you shave, shaving will make hair grow faster? dads believe this. do they believe it correctly? >> you think if that was true, i wouldn't try it. forget about it, it doesn't work. it's fiction. the things that causes hair to grow are caused by hair follicles under the scalp and nothing about cutting hair influences them. hair follicles determine the rate of growth, the color, whether the hair falls out. nothing you can do by cutting your hair. >>brian: that transfers to the beard as well? >> absolutely. >>brian: the second question: drinking some coffee will sober you up if you had too many? dads say that. are they right? >> have a cup of coffee. doesn't work. it takes an hour to get rid of every drink of alcoh

dr. siegel and i were having a conversation on the ride over.nd versus high end consumer. one of the things we've been -- >> there's an absolute dichotomy. >> we've been debating at barclays, the low end consumer got hit almost immediately by the reversal of the payroll tax cut. retailer earnings estimates were too high. they came down hard. you did see some effect on the low end. but the high end consumer, you know, has received a positive wealth effect from higher stock prices, you know, house prices stabilizing. what do you guys see with respect to that? where do you sit in that? >> i would say that has sort of neutralized more at the high end. something that's kind of interesting for us, typically people -- our average customer is about a 50 k median income. normal for the u.s. but we started a rewards program four years ago. we now have more specific data on our customers instead of generaliti generalities. what we now know is 50 k would be our median income customer. 25% of our sales come from 5% of our customer. they're median income is m

dr. marc siegel on why this may be the beginning. >> i'm so thankful for the donor. on this great day it's a tragic day for them and that's not lost on me. for her to live. somebody else gave her this amazing gift and we are just so thankful. bill: the fan who took a line drive to the head is out of the hospital. this is hard to watch. bill: that's ball hit alex cobb in the right ear. he suffered a mild concussion. he's throwing what, 90 miles an hour. and the ball is coming off that bat at least that fast. you think how vulnerable a pitcher is after they release the ball. martha: you think of the helmet technology that happened in so many sports and those guys are so vulnerable. bill: he was tweeting sunday morning. martha: he was bleeding from that ear at the time. another rough interesting session that happened over the weekend was with former vice president dick cheney as he sound off in an exclusive interview on "fox news sunday." he says the nsa leaker has put millions of americans in danger. >> i think he's a traitor. i think he committed crimes. by violating

dr. marc siegel is a number of the fox news medical a-team, professor of medicine at nyu, and if you havee both do -- you can't watch that without getting a lump in your throat. a whole new world has been opened up to this little boy. >> we've been featuring children that are getting treatment and technology that before they couldn't. this is called an auditory brain stem implant, and basically, it looks like a snail in the inner ear. we all have them. and we've been transplanting that cochlear, and we've been putting implants on that cochlear, but in this child, the nerve that goes from the inner ear to the brain, it didn't develop. so we have to figure out a way to bypass that, rick. so in this case they put the implant right on the brain, right on the brain stem. and the biggest problem when you do that is that you can't understand speech very well. you can understand environmental noises, but you can't understand speech. so they've developed a speech processer that the child will wear on his skin, and it will literally interpret sounds and frequencies and beam them right to the brain

dr. mark siegel, professor at nyu langone medical center. good to see you. >> good morning, martha.hey moved another little girl, another little boy, excuse me off this list. there are only 20 kid in this position. if you put them all on the list the feeling that it is more fair treatment to everybody. that they shouldn't be discriminated against because of their age? >> i think that's true. you know, cystic fibrosis, there is 150 to 200 lung transplants a year for cystic fibrosis. that is build up of secretions in the lung and you get scarring in the lung because the lung is stiff. she is not yet on a respirator which is really good thing. once she is on ventilator, respirator, she is trouble because the lungs don't stand the high pressures is. sarah is getting sicker. that should move her up on the list. they tend to give priority for those who are the sickest. i think only be fair children be on the list, when you consider a disease, cystic fibrosis which affects many organs, because it gets worse as you get older. she is in worse shape than a lot of adults, would do better with

dr. marc siegel is here.e will get to the moral issue and the legal issue in just a moment but would you make a statement that monster energy drinks pose a danger to the public? >> won't say caused the death in his child's case because that is a cause and effect, we don't know. but i will say i am concerned mod of caffeine the energy trends have not just monster, rockstar as well, five hour energy, several different ones, red bull, they all have a lot of energy. you will say coffee had a lot of energy. i love coffee. but i maintain that people are aware that coffee has caffeine but you almost feel the boost when you are getting it and i am worried about the energy drinks which have a lot of sugar that make you dehydrated and the caffeine gets harder. if you had an underlining heart that could put you at risk. i worry about the lack of awareness of the caffeine. stuart: do you know the equivalent how many cups of coffee in a monster energy drink? >> i know the answer to that. a cup of coffee has 100 milligrams

dr. marc siegel. big break in the case. what should we take from it?is kathleen sebelius is not a physician and she has been saying that from the beginning. i'm not qualified to say who should get a transplant and who shun. she -- and who shouldn't. she has the ability to approve this or create a pilot trial where children like sarah can be in this. i think it is amazing and wonderful the judge has come out like this. the technology is changing. the technology is different than it was a few years ago when this policy came into place. children can now get part of adult lungs. not entire lungs. we have the ability to do those kind of transplants. that makes it more important that children ben they're younger. statistics show they actually will do better than adolescents who have raeupbling hormones -- who have raging hormones to deal with. cystic fibrosis also is very, very deadly. and it looks like without this transplant she's not going to live more than a couple weeks. >>gretchen: is this a case of bureaucracy following very far behind technology? if

dr. marc siegel from the medical a team. heart attacks kill men and women, the number-one killer? number-one killer in the united states. men more than women are affected by heart disease. that age is a little young for your first heart attack. we don't know what other risk factors are. one is obvious. he weighs too much. 37% of the heart attacks in this country are due to inactivity. only 22% of americans exercise regularly. you can actually prevent this by doing things in advance. if you knew you have a risk factor for heart disease, what is your cholesterol? what is your blood pressure? what is your family history? if you're a smoker, stop smoking now. you're watching this program, stop smoking. get up and exercise and lose weight. stress is a factor in terms of high blood pressure, cholesterol. it seems to us that he was under a lot of stress, though he was quoted as saying that acting helped him to channel his anger and reduce stress. that's something else. you have to do something in your life that you really enjoy. >>gretchen: a lot of people will say he was on vacation in

siegel. >> another thread. obamacare relies on the primary care dr. to figure out what care you need. they will be gone. are getting an increase in medical schools. not an increase in the number of residencies. there is no ability to train more doctors to take their place. the doctors that we do have will not choose primary care. stuart: i find that an incredible statistic. less than a quarter of them will treat me and you and other people like us. the obama administration is saying to not worry. we will let nurses prescribe. we will let other people the doctors will step in. what do you make of that? >> i think that the level of you are not going to get the kind of care that you are expecting to get. you may not get the procedure ordered in exactly the same way. it is apples and oranges. we need nurse practitioners, but we also need primary care. the experience that doctors and you bring to the table, -- you see the difference between a teaching hospital and nurses, even young doctors and people who know their stuff. it is night and day. stuart: there is one othee topic i have to move on to. remember t

dr. marc siegl is joining us with questions you need to be asking right now. it's time to call your doctor and ask these questions. you don't want to miss what doctor siegel has to say. he's next. jon: the doctor is in and the clock is ticking with many new regulations under obama care set to kick in january 1st one doctor says now is the time to have the conversation with your doctor. no, not necessarily about personal things, but rather to ask about how obama care will effect you. can you really keep your doctor? what will it mean for your job and the insurance offered by your employer? dr.~marc siegl has been an outspoken critic of the president's healthcare law, a professor of medicine at new york university langone medical center and a fox news medical a-teamer. having the conversation with your doctor where do you start. >> 2014 is looming. you start with your doctor by asking her or him will you going to be still taking my insurance, are you going to be in private practice? can you afford the expenses of private practice? will you be moving to a hospital? will you be shrinking your practice, taking less medicare patients? if a patient is reaching 6