karen mikely, madelein coffin doll, barbara sabits, james sandoval, eileen [speaker not understood], jennifer warberg, dean a hilliard, kate robinson, pedro torres, dr. lisa everson, i think [speaker not understood] already spoke. michael smith wick, la more santiago, and charlie walker. >>> hi, i'm [speaker not understood], and i'm a physician at st. luke's hospital. also the chair of the department of obstetrics gynecology and resident of district 9. and i just want to speak to you today about 7 years ago i left what was a very nice practice at ucsf so that i could go to st. luke's and work. i did that primarily because it felt to me like working at st. luke's was the closest i could get to my young idealistic self-who many years ago previously decided to study medicine and that really what it has been for me, it's been really special. we have an amazing group of patients and doctors who are good and committed. ~ ironically less than a year after i started at st. luke's, it was announced the hospital was going to be closed. so, thankfully an awful lot has happened since that time and a lot has changed. so, last week when i heard -- first heard