as you can imagine, these conditions require medication. when you are uninsured, like all of our patients are, and you don't have access to medication, getting monthly medications that you need to control these conditions is untenable for most of our patients. and left untreated, these chronic conditions can be debilitating. they are demoralizing and they can even be fatal. which you might imagine as well. so, when we learned about the organization that was matching access medication with patients in need, we thought it was a fantastic idea. we knew that not only would it be incredibly helpful for patients that could -- at our clinic, but for patients throughout san francisco. it will save lives. i want to especially thank a supervisor safai. you have been amazing. thank you supervisor stefani. i will hope you will hear from our doctor to, out our clinic, has been shepherding this legislation through as well. thank you and i hope we can get your support for this important legislation. >> chair mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good mor

prescription medications. we also filed civil injunctions to secure the prohibition of abusive conduct and recover penalties of drug companies, pharmacies and others in the supply chain. most importantly or tools include the ability to request assistance from private sector partners who share our commitment to promote public health. want to conclude by asking each of you to do your part to help end the opioid crisis. help us promote safe and responsible use of prescription drugs can help us deter overprescribing by working together we can save lives and we can save your company's money as well. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for those powerful remarks in all that you and the entire department of justice are doing to help stem the opioid crisis. just a couple of questions given all that's going on and recently we know that some cities have proposed establishing safe injection sites or other drugs of medical staff trained to administer overdose or resold drugs like no locks on. some advo

medical personnel will perform medical care at overwhelmed medical facilities and hospitals impacted areas. hhs is standing by and ready to support another aspects including providing basic medical care and shelters and assisting public health departments with disease surveillance. have one message we would like to send up a bit help with. that is the use of generators and gas power equipment and the risk of carbon monoxide exposure poisoning. we want to recommend that people don't use their generators within 20 feet of their house and don't keep their generators in the house and don't use gas powered up women within their houses once they get back to their homes. that is pending the approval of the local health and emergency management officials. >> thank you, kevin. search-and-rescue is ongoing. thejob is to backbone capabilities of the state and local and the united states coast guard played a huge role in helping us do that. we are going to brief that. the coast guard. >> good morning, everyone. is been a straight or and life safety are paramount goals going forth today and in th

how much medication is too much.f you're given a lot of morphing, will that accelerate your death? the answer is that no one is expected to go through intractable pain when they are dying. giving pain medication like morphine, as long as the intent is not to cause death, here, the intent is always the most important word. it is okay to give pain medication, even if theoretically, it could reduce the lifespan of the person. another issue that always comes up is nutrition and hydration. artificial nutrition and hydration is considered necessary healthcare. it is not a healthcare procedure because of your eating and drinking. but i get a lot of calls from family members saying that i'm afraid we were not feeding my mother or father. i'm afraid that we were not hydrating him enough. did we kill them? there is a point in which the body can no longer assimilate food and water. when you get very close to the dying process. cutting off food and water is okay. it is morally a valid thing to do. if you look at these advanced h

other medical personnel will be performing medical care and overwhelmed or damaged medical facilities and hospitals in the impacted area. hhs is also standing by religious sports in other aspects, including providing basic medical care and shelters and assisting public health departments with disease surveillance. we do have one message we would like to send out you can help with and that is the use of generators and gas-fired equipment and the risk of carbon exposure and wasn't in great we want to recommend people don't use generators within 20 feet of the house, looking for generators in our house if they don't use gas-fired equipment within their houses once they get back to their homes and that is pending the approval of the local health emergency manager officials. lexington, kevin. search-and-rescue is ongoing and our job is to back fill the capabilities of the state of local level in the united states coast guard plays a huge role in helping us to do that. captain benson is going to brief us once again coast guard. >> good morning, everyone. captainas the ministry are in gl are

lanny page, the medical device center with a collection of medical devices to be approved for treatment of opioid abuse disorder and 5 for 10k, we are talking about digital health tools. >> what are the tools, and the tools are rudimentary form. what to you and cms, and is a complicated epidemic, a black market component and overprescribing component and the sentinel, vaguely out there to pull into. >> the integration, they have good technology, it is not tightly integrated and the vision laid out, evidence-based guidelines with blister packs and couple with mandatory applications for longer duration, if we can implement that system we can sharply cut down on overall exposure and rationalize describing some hurdles. reasonable hurdles would not be overly burdensome to providers using technology to facilitate its and that would require better integration. i tell you in the 18 months we are working on this we are a lot further along than i thought we would be on that. legislation was very important giving an important nudge. the first thing with the legislation. >> they are pretty cheap,

hagedorn: medical care is expensive we have innovation technology with the finest medical care don't know too many americans traveling around the world for medical care they are getting at here. i do know people coming in from foreign countries to get medical care in the united states that is my answer whether we have the finest quality but driving down cost transparency and cost is backward transparency so you know, what it cost to go to the doctor to get the mri that allows people to shop to bring competition that allows people to make choices we don't have that right now. what is the incentive for healthy living right now? you don't have to pay any more money out that drum dump 20 or 30000 hoping and praying you don't have to use it now you have incentive for healthy living and live a better life that's we can have with the free market and make it more to what we would expect in the united states of america. >> what you hear about moving backwards to her they are not guaranteed basics like pre-existing conditions allowing that to go to the private market takes us back to a place y

of the medications you take are eliminated by urine. up to seventy percent of the dye cliff a knack you swallow is excrete it again residue from creams and gels is also rinsed away in the shower bath and ends up in the waste water. the bavarian researches have built a reactor that can break down stable drug residues in it wastewater is post with ozone the process is already used to kill germs but it also breaks down drug residues into their constituent parts. these samples of waste water that have been treated with ozone illustrate how well it works they're carefully analyzed by vanno right from the voice his colleagues at the regional environment office they conduct own tests for example in a comparison untreated samples turned reddish orange samples treated with ozone remain clear. but an overall exhibit when it comes to hormones we're very satisfied after ozone nation there are practically undetectible but with other medications the situation isn't quite as rosy we have some good rates of degradation over ninety percent for example w

host: yes ma'am, and for medical purposes? yes, for medical purposes.o we are meeting last week, and i am noticing they have my daughter on six seizure medications. never in my life have i seen this amount of seizure medications given to a 100 pound girl. i asked about the cbd oil, stopse it is proven to seizures. they say oh, we cannot give her that because of the federal. think cbd oil and portion of it needs to be looked at the federal level. how can they discriminate against special-needs children and not give the cbd oil, because she is placed in a state-controlled facility? i do not get this. there is no law that does not require this. isn't because they want the funding for the medicaid, for the drugs? which totally drugs are out. shewas not even, like, could not comprehend anything. so i am wondering what is happening. host: dee, thank you for your call, the less caller on this site might -- the last caller "washington journal on a segment of "washington journal -- the last caller on this segment of "washington journal" today. we will have next

, medical, mental reasons. that's all. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is george ann ross. i'm a member of access of love and a san francisco resident. it's a pleasure to be here with my fellow city residents in our historic and beloved city hall. i moved to san francisco in part because of its reputation in part for openness and acceptance. as i see the intent of prop 215 diminished by the emergence of retail sales, i wonder why are we no longer accepting the most disadvantaged among us. the intent of 215, which was passed in 1996 was that the most in need of medications were not forced to go to unreputable businesses. do we plan to put profit over people in this city? after working here as a paralegal and software q.a. engineer in the late 90's, i moved home to do cancer care giving for my elderly father in virginia for a few years. i cooked for him, took him to appointments, arranged his medication and so on. besides the pain discomfort he experienced as a result of having cancer, and e

issue. >> so this is the nation's state medical and osteopathic medical board coming together. >> reporter: doctor humayun chaudhry leads the federation of state medical boards. >> all in favor of accepting the document.or >> rr: the federation advises states on the best practices for censing doctors. it does have a lot of meaninghe whenation's state medical bards decide to support a particular point of view on anything. >> reporter: the group passed 35 .ecommendations to promote physician wellne topping the list, they asked state boards to consider whether it's necessary to ask s about mental health at all and to ensure questions focus on current impairment, limiting them to the past two years. we found at least 21 states that ask about three or more years of mental healthistory. katherine gold hopes the report makes state boards go a step further to eliminate questions about mental health. >> but i tell you, as longats the are asking physicians about mental health, you are going to have many, many physicians who don't speak up and don't get help and just get worse. >> reporter: after mit

that means someone with a role medical emergency like a heart a -- real medical emergency like a heart attack might have to wait longer for an ambulance. >> it is a public health crisis. >> reporter: paramedics plus coo says that solving this problem is complicated. if someone calls 911 they are liable and have no choice but to transport. back in fremont, minutes after paramedics dropped him off at washington hospital, our first frequent flyer on the night was back out on the curb. >> they will get upset if they do not get what they come to the hospital for which is food. in this case the patient was upset because he didn't get the sandwich that he wanted. >> reporter: security called 911. this time, walked into another ambulance himself. he was transported to john george hospital. >> there you go. and once he is release friday -- released from there and we will run on him twice again tomorrow. >> reporter: in fremont, kpix5. >> and this is not just this county. the entire bay area is facing the same challenges. turns out some of the frequent flyers are visiting multiple emergency room

it really created the medical center we have in houston today. that the reason of the main character and then to with the artificial hearts but the people he attracted were equally ask them - - eccentric but he's also from houston and harvard trained surgeon that is also a magician who plays trombone and band. i don't think he sleeps and to be a spectacular inventor but one day he was in his office because every week he would see people with inventions and tell them yes or no or maybe there was a kid coming in from australia and he could barely bring himself to meet with the guy he c comes in with his backpackck and takes this box out that was wrapped in rags and set i think this will work as an artificial heart. and because he was an inventor he looked at this and excuse me but he said only shit but it does have the one moving part but they saw the prototype and thought this would do it. they are all crazy. every one of them. [laughter] . >> itie seems you have that daredevil side see a plenty of anecdotes in the book about ending the rules in t

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it will make sure that we have inferior medical quality medical innovation will suffer. if you want people on medicare guess what? the mayo clinic will be reimbursed at 50 cents on the dollar rather than one dollar. they cannot sustain the model. if you do this it will destroy the progress and growth of rochester minnesota much of southern minnesota all of those buildings going up all those people flying to rochester comes to an end. this is a big choice for the people. do you want to put people in charge with socialized medicine? as far as incentives are concerned this is the way we doe business companies go out and produce medical devices and drugs and everything else. doctors go to school for many years they want a return there is nothing wrong with that. feehan: the mayo clinic is an absolute bright idea it is an institution founded and a leader on health care why not have them at the table talking about large-scale health reform to shift this country of preventative care rather than just selling one - - treating sick people? . >> if you expand medicare it does pay l

he was a medic in afghanistan. from the white house, this is 25 minutes. >> we ask for your presence and your peace for all those gathered here this day. we give you thanks for the redemption, this this day to reflect on what you provide and what we need. of the dignitys of life, service, sacrifice and true heroism. fiercely too hold your gifts of hope and grace and passion. staffheraldic acts of sergeant ronald sure move us all to greater acts of goodness, love, to serve our soldiers, our families, our nation and our world. we humblyre you that ask these things and gratefully say amen. president trump: thank you very much. please. thank you chaplain hurley. thank you to vice president mike pence. it is my honor to award the medal of honor to an army special forces medic. please join me in welcoming staff sgt. ronald shurer. [applause] president trump: thank you. i wish i was that popular, i'll tell you. today is a true, proud and special day for those of us here in the white house, because ron works right here alo

into the medical department. our medical personal are working with fema's search and rescue team to triage people rescued under those teams. under the fema contract ambulances are available to evacuate patients at those locations. our footprint hasn't changed much in the last day. we still have 400 public and medical health responders deployed and another 300 on alert. they come from across the country and are part of the national disaster medical system and the u.s. public health service, again, as the administrators stated in many places it's not safe to go back to your residence and we want to emphasize before you do that, check with local health and emergency management authorities to ensure that life lines in the infrastructure is there to have a safe return. when you return, we'd like to see a safe return to those areas to make sure that you're not injured through cleanup process, boots, eye protection, gloves and partners, and if you're hurt someone is able to contact emergency medical services. we want ev

also there, the chief medical examiner of allegheny county. pittsburgh, of course, a part of allegheny county, somberly listing the victims of the attack here yesterday, many of whom were in their 70s, 80s, and in one case, 90s. we learned a bit more about the circumstances, what took place yesterday. more detail from the criminal complaint that federal -- that the u.s. attorney for the western district of pennsylvania filed. that there were three glock handguns used by the shooter and a colt long gun, as well. an ar-15. we heard there from robert jones, the special agent in charge of this investigation, that the attack took place in three locations within the synagogue that's just one block behind me here in squirrel hill, in pittsburgh, of pennsylvania. some more detail on the man who conducted this, on robert bowers. there have been two searches. one underway this morning of the suspect's vehicle. another took place last night in baldwin, pennsylvania, of the suspect's apartment. we heard there from the head of public safety for pittsburgh

and officials alike all harmed not in need of any physical medical attention. the media chief for the russians lot of well a lot of information we're getting from reports which have to be which have to be confirmed so this so far most of them have been confirmed this one has not so again just recapping the situation the crew is alive and sound. the medics are on site they have already examined both the russian cosmonauts and the american austrian ordered the first flight for him i mean wow what of what i mean i can't even begin to imagine what he must have gone through on his well orbital debut but still no injuries they will still reportedly be taken to hospital just to make sure that they are absolutely fine. talked to the head of the russian space agency dmitry rogozin and he stress today's emergency has reiterate has kind of underlined the reliability of the emergency module responsible for the descent for this ballistic descent of the crew after the second booster failure or whatever it is i mean the investigation has only just kicked off and there's a lot

we need to make these medications we need to make them available in the way that we made hiv medication available. they really work when they are used correctly i've sent to your point you compare it to the relapse rate and a sustainable recovery there are dramatic differences when you are on versus cold turkey so many of these kids have seen one or two of their friends succeed in rehab and then they've been in the meetings where they've been told to be unclean. i watched them g watch them go d ask to be sponsored and no one would sponsor because she was taking some walks and so she herself believed in this notion that going away out of state to an abstinence only facility is the only way for her to get clean she knew she had a friend for whom it worked and spent $300,000 that lasted for months at a time. it's not something that is scalable and an epidemic of this size. so many people don't have this data available to them. chances are only 10% get better using that model. we have a lot of the medical establishment and government almost in deference in this crisis we have community is b

and i don't take my seizure medication. >> do you have access to medication? where do you get your medication from? >> it's expensive. >> i know. so how do you get your medication? >> um, i don't. >> reporter: in the end, he turned down the ride. but only after tying up an ambulance with an emt and paramedic, a fire truck with three firefighters, and a squad car with two police officers. the county sent us a list of the top 25 frequent flyers who call 911 on a regular basis. in two years, 25 people have collectively called 911 4,291 times. the average transport costs $600. that adds up to over $2.5 million be. the number one frequent flyer makes up 300 of those calls. his estimated tab alone is $180,000. you have just become a taxi? >> we do. unfortunately. >> it's not just about the cost. some nights there are so many frequent flyer calls that the system reaches what's known as a level zero. that means someone with a real medical emergency like a heart attack might have to wait longer for an ambulance. >> this is a public health in the far wider sense situati

you can build medical functionality into your hardware and not make the whole device a medical device. we will just separately regulate the application that gives it the functionality and validate whether the hardware is working properly through the application. it's a big opportunity. >> where would you use this? >> counting calories. >> what is your target per day? it seems to work you make fun of yourself on twitter and argue a little bit on twitter. >> with myself. >> you definitely make fun of yourself and others on twitter, but twitter became obsessed with your-- how did that happen? >> i wore the wrong attire to a farm endured-- in georgia. i had boots but they were to clean. i jeans were too skinny but i had on a black turtleneck-- turtleneck and i think that i got off pretty good.>> i would like to make these conversations possible. we think any commissioners and staff and we thank you for coming out early this morning. thank you for great conversation . >> on thursday we will be live as government officials testify on combating money-- money- laundering. the senate banking c

but memories and medical records are all that remain.he baby was in distress. i remember saying to the lady who's got the little pink badge... sorry — i get upset. she is dead. leave her. no, no, no. and these people are around her, trying to recover her. they worked on herfor 20 minutes. i said, please leave her alone. and that was it. no more. i held her, said goodbye. and went home empty—handed. said goodbye. and went home empty-handed. her daughter's birth was brutal. the forceps delivery leftjulie needing was brutal. the forceps delivery left julie needing reconstructive surgery. left julie needing reconstructive surgery. she said no investigation was carried out into what happened to her baby or to her. this former nurse who wishes to remain anonymous spent more than a decade at the maternity unit of the trust and says m ista kes maternity unit of the trust and says mistakes were rarely investigated properly. when i was there, i don't think we learned from it. i think it was a case of, we will cross our fingers that it doesn't happ

the medical system, and they recruited doctors to become perdue marketers for their product. >> beth: yes. >> host: and so a lot of people then have a invested interest in overlooking what's in front of them in terms of the crisis that's brewing in their communities. >> beth: right. right. to have a chapter called swag and dash. they would find out what doctors liked. if you're a doctor into cuban cigars, they would show up with cuban cigars, the very best ones in exchange for ten minutes of our time to tell you about this new wonder drug, and we know from studies that doctors are trice as more likely to prez-ieb these drugs when they've been exposed to that kind of behavior. and the free lunches and all of them that. a lot of the big gifts -- a lot of that has stopped but i'm told the doctors are looking reps to come in with lunches and things like that. in journalism we're not allowed to accept a gift over $25. when i worked as newspapers if somebody liked an article you wrote about them and sent you flours the next day we had to give them to the domestic violence shelter. how could

the medical examiner's office declibld to talk to us about either case. but we are told it is very rare to have an adverse outcome. they said we take those cases very seriously. the deaths were comprehensively investigated but they wouldn't discuss them. they said they're looking to deploy better technology with drugs like this. but them it shows that medics are not using the equipment they already have. >> it is not high-tech. it is not hard to do. basic monitoring that should have been done. >> why do you think it wasn't done? >> i don't know. there is no documentation that it was done. >> nbc bay area news. >> if you have a story for anyone in our investigative unit, you have the numbers to the screen. or you can visit our website. nbcbayarea.com/investigation. our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is with us. we are heating up as we move toward the weekend. >> it will be unusual as we move into october. you're going to see a beautiful shot of san francisco tonight from our high definition camera. if you're getting yourself ready for bed. it is worth a

wrangling medical passes on to her successes to germany to our policy. the prospect of a conservative green coalition at the national level a new blueprint for germany. i don't really see that happening to be honest i mean i think that she would like to manage -- succession but you know we all know what they say about the the best laid plans -- i i think that. note the she's going to lose these elections in in in the coming months and there could be a dynamic there where she's just going. to not be able to steer the party and germany in the direction she would like -- and dash she will be she will be pressured. to to to to step down at some point possibly before the the you know the the the the end of the term are likely before. the end of the term i don't think that these she's going to be able to nominate somebody as her chosen. as successor going going to turn out i think more likely than a green. conservative coalition would be a conservative backlash within the us you do you work. for kind of natural distant disposition anyway. okay thank you all th

medical marijuana is legal in california.ool district say no, you can't have this medication in school? >> the school distrhe position that essentially both california state law and federal law prohibited the use of cannabis on campus. >> reporter: attorney joe rogoy who specializes in marijuana law represented brook's family in a lawsuit challenging the school's ban on her medication. >> if the judge didn't rule in our favor,e cld have h to pull her out of school. >> reporter: the school district was caught between one federal law that says all marijuana is illegal. and another federal law, the individuals with disabilities education act. >> and federal law prioritizes children with disabilities and ensuring that they are able to have access to education more so than other things that the district was holding onto. >> reporter: the california judge ruled that under both federal law and california law, brook must be allowed to be treated th medical mararijuana in school. >> i mean, she's learning and she's growing. and withou

history. >> any medical conditions that you know of?s. that i know of, he had sleep apnea -- >> reporter: investigators also fished for information about tom's wife. >> how's linda doing, i guess? have you talked to her since tuesday? >> yes. oh, yes. >> yes? >> yes, i've been there. i go to the house and stuff. >> okay. how's she doing? >> she's not doing too well. >> yes? >> she's very --i mean, she's really, really bad. she's in bad shape. >> reporter: but that wasn't all gil had to say about linda kolman. he had something far more interesting to share with the detectives. >> i don't know if you guys know but, anyway, me and linda we had a relationship, so. >> okay. sexual relationship, i'm assuming? >> yeah. >> what's that moment like when he reveals he's having an affair with linda kolman? >> i think it caught us all off-guard because that was the first time we discovered thatwe had no reason to ask him about that type of relationship with linda. >> how long ago did that start? >> about a year. >> a year, okay. >> reporter: and gil

ron was the only medic for the team.le he was still near the base of the mountain, the first team began to scale the cliff toward the village. as they approached the top roughly 200 well-trained and well armed terrorists ambushed the american and afghan forces. soon ron heard his comrade call his name. brian had been struck by shrapnel at the base of the mountain. he was very seriously hurt. ron braved enemy fire to rush to his friend and treat his wounds. he heard over the radio soldiers were pinned down and critically injured. there was blood all over the place. it was eight half, tough situation to be in -- it was a tough, tough situation to be in. ron climbed to the rocky mountain, all the while fighting back against the enemy, and dodging gunfire left and right. rockets were shot at him, everything was shot at him. when he reached the top, and afghan interpreter was already dead. two americans had been shot. he treated them both to stabilize them and their condition. of through his body on top one to protect them fr

but memories and medical records are all that remain.dy who's got the little pink badge... sorry — i get upset. she is dead. leave her. no, no, no. and these people are around her, trying to recover her. they worked on herfor 20 minutes. i said, please leave her alone. and that was it. no more. i held her, said goodbye. and went home empty—handed. her daughter's birth was brutal. the forceps delivery leftjulie needing reconstructive surgery. she said no investigation was carried out into what happened to her baby or to her. this former nurse who wishes to remain anonymous spent more than a decade at the maternity unit of the trust and says mistakes were rarely investigated properly. when i was there, i don't think we learned from it. i think it was a case of, we will cross our fingers that it doesn't happen again. if you don't learn, you risk repeating errors. eva is three, happy and healthy. but her mother andrea is anything but. her daughter's forceps delivery left her with an open wound for nine months and ongoing incontinence problem

it will make sure we have inferior medical quality. medical innovation will suffer. if you want people -- more people on medicare, guess what. the mayo clinic and fine institutions of medicine will be reimbursed at $.50 on the dollar. they can't sustain the model. if you do this, it will destroy the progress and growth in rochester, minnesota and much of southern minnesota. all the buildings going up, people that flow into rochester, that comes to an end. this is a big choice for the people. you want to put people in charge that will take us to socialized medicine or people who will keep us with the private sector? as far as incentives, there is a way we do business. we have incentives. companies produce good medical devices and so forth. , and drugs and everything else. doctors go to school for many years and want something in return. there is nothing wrong with that. mr. feehan: the mayo clinic is the right idea here. they have to be at the table. this institution has been a leader in the world on health care. why not have them at the table? about large-scale healt

our disaster medical assistance teams are working alongside emergency department staff at bay medical sacred heart hospital and gulf coast center to care for people coming into the emergency department. our medical personnel are working with fema's search and rescue teams to triage people rescued by those teams. under a fema contract, ambulances are available to move -- evacuate patients at those locations. our footprint hasn't changed much in the last day. we still have 400 medical responders deployed and another 300 are on alert. they come from across the country and are part of the national disaster medical system and the u.s. public health service. again as the administrator stated, in many places it's not safe to go back to your riss dense. we want to emphasize that before you do that you check with emergency management authorities to ensure that lifelines and the infrastructure is there to have a safe return. when you return, we would like to see a safe return to those areas to make sure that you are not injured through the cleanup process. that includes wearing boots, protectio

more than 25% of people with health insurance have received a surprise medical bill. just big consequences on your credit score. >> there are ways to protect yourself. >> a ten-day hospital stay and heart condition in 2016 left him with medical bills popping $130,000. the 59-year-old comic bookstore owner thought his insurance would cover most of it. after months of trying to navigate the $76,000 gap between what his insurance company would pay and what the hospital billed him, he would turned over to a collection's agency. the first step to blowing up his credit. >> something i don't like about the certainty. it's living with it 24/7. the idea that i don't know how this is going to end. am i going to lose my business or my house? >> medical debt can do major damage to your finances if you leave it unresolved. >> new rules are trying to help. the three big credit agencies, equifax, experian and transunion are required to wait 180 days before putting an unpaid medical bill on your credit report. so if you're disputing a claim -- let the hospital or doctor's office know

he was in vienna, the hub of medical science. at the time, he had access to a ton of cases and when i say a ton i mean wow. 70,000 autopsies, 30,000 performed himself over the course of his career. he averaged two a day, seven days a week, 45 years. that is a ton of autopsies and what he does with them is perfect the system. how we do them the same every time to not introduce errors and ensure reproducible results and to be honest, he hated microscopy, this use of a microscope so he was actually in terms of diagnosing diseases and the pathologies that kill people, he's not that great but in terms of systematizing the autopsy and publicizing it, making it an important part, he played a key role. rudolph search how, maybe even more important as the eminent father of the -- the german pathologist, the hub of medical knowledge moving to berlin, he really seals the deal on the case, that is cellular pathology. you will probably remember this, all processes, we had these four humors that circulate throughout our body and that's why the

families will travel from physician to physician, to medical center to medical center and endure expensive, extensive and invasive therapies before a correct diagnosis is made. at this time, the alternative for early and effective intervention has passed. families face caregivers and others who are unfamiliar sometimes even with the name, let alone with the burdens of such a diagnosis, and they have to deal with a bureaucracy which is largely designed to care for adults with common diseases, not children, and young adults who have progressive disorders. often families are told inappropriately that nothing can be done for their child. the process of developing new treatments is long and complex. typically this process requires large numbers of subjects who will ultimately participate as rev heard in randomized, double blind placebo-controlled clinical trials. but this pathway is inappropriate and has barriers for rare and ultrarare diseases. as we have heard, there is a small pool of participants. not all individuals are suitable candidates or willing to participate. and there is wide indiv