i actually gave a lecture at massachusetts general hospital in january, and it was a grand rounds lecture bonus of being taken into research facilities. and they presented — these young scientists presented their research to me, and at the end we began to talk about multidisciplinary approaches. and i said to them what i deeply believe — i am not telling you to read philosophy and literature and look at visual art because i think we should all be well rounded, lovely people. i'm telling you this because i think it will help you solve problems in your own work. i believe that. siri hustvedt, author of the essays in a woman looking at men looking at women. thank you very much. oh, thank you having me. hello again. hello again. as hello again. as we hello again. as we move hello again. as we move into hello again. as we move into october, we will continue to see our weather coming in from the atlantic. typical autumn weather. some sunshine, often wet and windy. the next dose of that whether arriving in the coming days. drizzle across england and wales. —— weather. scotland hanging onto clear

one that i'm familiar with is the home base program in boston that was created by massachusetts general hospital and the red sox foundation. this is an effective program dealing with high risk situations and individuals who have had very serious issues coming out of afghanistan and iraq. there are a number of local support,es organization, initiatives, and programs developed as a response to that, so we are making significant progress thanks to people like you and thanks to the center's programs and other programs like it. here's the most important thing i want to say tonight. the clinical world i am talking summons a deeper and more complex issue, and it is this -- we have to find ways of addressing the ways in which traumatic stress and moral problems ofves meaning and identity, and we have to find ways of providing resources and guidance in the search for meaning and -- as they struggle with these difficult experiences. the best way i can communicate what i mean is to tell your personal story. a brief one with a single important point. i went into the army when i was and immature and somewhat

peter slavin, the president of the massachusetts general hospital, said to repeal the affordable care act would be a horrible sin for this country. but that's exactly what the graham-cassidy bill is. it's a cruel and inhumane sin that would hurt millions of american families. in some cases this recent trumpcare proposal is worse than the bill before it. the bill uses a totally subjective formula which was changed at the whim of the bill's sponsors to vote in favor of it. the bill was nothing more than something that had political plastic surgery that had been performed but it was fundamentally the same bill. at the roundtable i held in boston yesterday or to henry dorkin, the president of the massachusetts medical society, said that i fear that if graham-cassidy were to pass we would go back to attending more funerals of children. there is simply no reason to go back to a time when people died of preventable or treatable conditions simply because they did not have access to insurance. just moments ago we learned that the republican leadership will not hold a vote on this disastrous bi