dr. turney. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is asher turney, i'm a medical doctor from rural alabama and tennessee. i've been a doc for about ten years, and after hearing some of the discussion earlier from miss bay and row. i just want to say we all can have a family member that can be incarcerated and i want them to get the best medical care. i work with the department of corrections and we try to avoid some of those circumstances that they describe. i don't think it's an overwhelming, across t boehe bo pervasive issue, but there are certain situations that, you know, i work every day to prevent. so i just want to say, my discussion today will be a little bit wider in scope and it will be on some of the issues that we deal with in corrections, but as i said, i completely empathize with anyone who has had a circumstance like that because that's what i went into medicine to prevent. like i said, i'm a preventive medicine, urgent care specialist and i went to the medical college and our goal

dr. turney.> good afternoon, everybody. my name is asher turney, a medical doctor from rural alabama and tennessee, and i've been a doc for ten years, and after hearing some of the discussion earlier from miss bey and miss rowe, i just wanted to say, we all can have a family member that could be incarcerated, and i want them to get the best care they deserve. in my experience, i have not had that same issue. as a medical director for tennessee, i work with the department of corrections, and we try to avoid some of those circumstances that they described. so, i don't think it's overwhelming across the board pervasive issue but there are certain situations that i worked every day to prevent. so i just want to say, my discussion today will be a little bit wider in scope, and mainly on some of the issues that we deal with in corrections. but as i said, completely empathize with anyone who has had circumstance like that because that's what i went into medicine to prevent. i'm a preventative medicine u

dr. turney. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is asher turney, i'm a medical doctor from rural alabama and tennessee. i've been a doc for about ten years, and after hearing some of the discussion earlier from miss bay and row. i just want to say we all can have a family member that can be incarcerated and i want them to get the best medical care. i work with the department of corrections and we try to avoid some of those circumstances that they describe. i don't think it's an overwhelming, across t boehe bo pervasive issue, but there are certain situations that, you know, i work every day to prevent. so i just want to say, my discussion today will be a little bit wider in scope and it will be on some of the issues that we deal with in corrections, but as i said, i completely empathize with anyone who has had a circumstance like that because that's what i went into medicine to prevent. like i said, i'm a preventive medicine, urgent care specialist and i went to the medical college and our goal

dr. asher turney who is the medical director for centurion of tennessee which is a joint venture of centene with which tennessee contracts to provide health care services for its correctional system. dr. turney is board certified in both urgent care and occupational medicine and he's got a special interest in health inequalities in the health of vulnerable workers. welcome to both of you, and i would ask -- i guess we need to pass the clicker to the lady who is next. dr. lewis. >> good afternoon. as you all heard, i am a board-certified pediatrician, so i tell folks that i have 55,000 bad kidses under my care. what i'd like to do is to give you an overview of the georgia department of corrections which i think is a reflection of a lot of other correctional departments throughout the -- throughout the united states. fortunately, we've had lots of success in improving the health care that is being delivered to the inmates in our custody and fully respect theestel versus gamble ruling with mandated health care. to start out, georgia has a little bit of a difference here. we're the ninth larges