absolute obligation to complete a thorough, appropriate background check on this physician, on this ob/gyn to make sure he was not a fraud. >> reporter: prince george's hospital center e-mailed me saying that he had physician licenses in good standing in concludes by saying, we are disappointed that our expectation of integrity was not met in the case of dr. acota given his complex, sophisticated identity theft scheme. that's the latest from prince george's county. back to you. >>> d.c. parents are stunned by a new report that found dozens of students who graduated last year didn't actually make the grade. the school system is launching an internal investigation at ballou high school. 57 students were on track to graduate but 164 got dip employee mas. despite that report, no one has been fired. mark segraves is at ballou. mark? >> reporter: aaron, students, as you said, who were chronic clee absent, who didn't pass who had bad test scores and didn't complete their required community service, even some couldn't read and yet they all received dip employlomas. >> reporter: recently, ballou se

time, eig to ten months befo y want to get pregnant you should really be going and speang to your ob/gyn talkin about taking an of folic acid. so before you get pregnant thers l of things you should doing to be able to get yo body ready for pregna thaofe great things aboi think, the information marcof has, that your local pde have, is that long before you get pregnant you can c able to help your baby. >u' got a couple of events comi up. one them is in observance of prematy awareness month, whi november is. world prematurity day, which comeup on the 17th of novbe >> yes, november 17th is world premur day and it is foc o raising awareness to theba epidemic of premature birt t 15 million baes are born too early across the worlan or a million don't surve we want to raise awareness and garner support. >> it so sort of like a thi w problem in a country likehed states. is th an ovearza, gabel >> no, there are born premure in the united states and we are actually last in terms of the economic counie have in the world. so fors it is a big issue, a big proem. a lot of other countries have madri in

eight to ten months before you want to get pregnant youç shou really be going and speaking to your ob/gynf folic acid. long before you get pregnant there are things you should be doing to get your body ready for pregnancy. that's one of the great things about i think the information that march of dimes has, that your local providers have, is that long before you get pregnant you can be able to help yourç baby. >> you've got a couple of events coming up. one of them is in observance of prematurityúaíareness month, which november is. world prematurity day, which comes up on the 17th of november? >> november 17th is world premature day and this day is focused at raising awareness to the global epidemic of preterm birth, in that 15 million babies are born too early across the world and over a million don't survive. we want to raise awareness and garner support. >> it sounds sort of like a third-world problem in a countrç like the united states. is that an over characterization, gabriela? >> no, there are states, and we are last in terms of the economic, you know, countries we have in the wor

. >>> a number of women are suing the prince george's hospital center after learning that their ob-gyn used fake credentials. charles akota pleaded guilty last year and served jail time. he a documents including social security numbers, passports, immigration documents, and medical diplomas. the hospital vowed to defend the lawsuit, but it acknowledged that he had what it calls a complex sophisticated identity theft scheme. >>> tonight american airlines is taking steps to avoid canceling flights over the busy holiday travel period after a scheduling glitch left thousands of flights with no pilot. no glitch allowed too many pilots to take vacation during the christmas travel week. the pilots union says it's left 15,000 flights without a captain or a co-pilot or in some cases both. tonight we're working for you to see how serious the issue is and how it might impact your plans. >> around the holidays you don't have that kind of margin for error. so an airline can't afford to have something go wrong. the fortunate thing here is that we are still more than two weeks away from the affected

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dagen: no decent ob-gyn would move to rural area because they won't get paid as much even in a suburbanicularly large urban area? >> the solution of clinician shortage is multifold, this is one part of that solution which is making the liquidity of the workforce higher, making easier for those doctors who do want to move around, who do have the extra time and interesting to help out, even for a week, a month in a particular area, so reducing those barriers, making it simpler for doctors to move around is what we are on. maria: what are the barriers, obviously you need a skill set? >> i'm a doctor myself, i want to help out with the shortage. it took me ten months to organize a three-day job, you have to go through brockers, paperwork to final out, you have to deal with people on the phone and fax machines, literally people are still using fax machines, what we try to do is eliminate complexity and use modern technology to move things along much more quickly and that makes a big difference. dagen: and i know this from personal experience growing up in a very small town, what you are seei

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. >>> plus, for five years, a maryland man delivered babies as an ob/gyn and it turns out his credentialswere fake. now one of the women he treated is talking to news4 about what happened after he delivered her baby. it's a story you really have to hear. we'll see you soon with much more at 5:00. >> thanks, aaron. >> aaron, thank you. >>> before you reward your four-legged friend for being a good dog, heads up. >> yeah, an important warning. which treats could be dangerous for your dog. >>> and a local touch on the national christmas tree lighting. areview of the big p >>> four things to know this afternoon. explosive allegations involving the firing of matt lauer. variety has spoken to three women who identify themselves as victims of sex harassment. among the accusations, lauer was known for making lewd comments, for sending texts to co-workers and for inappropriate behavior in the office. >>> and less than an hour ago, the house approved a bipartisan measure requiring lawmakers and staff to take anti-harassment training once a year. congress continues to react to an outbreak of sexual

she's an ob/gyn. so why are all of these guys trying to get an appointment with the doctor.e's now certified to prescribe medical marijuana. the doc says her phone has been ringing offer the hook and it's primarily men on the line like most gynecologists she treats women exclusively. for her female clientele she's licensed to prescribe medical marijuana if they suffer from a number of approved illnesses but sorry, guys, no appointments for you. >>> finally this is four-year-old lena here and she will not be getting any christmas presents this year. not because she was naughty or for financial reasons. mom says the tradition makes kids too materialistic, so no gifts under the tree this year. mom jess wolf from north london told britain's the sun that the kids should only get gifts when they deserve them, not on a specific day. she's not even decorating the house saying the period has just become too commercialized. so there will be no "present fest" as she told the sun. she says when lena earns something she'll get something and she says lena is fine with that. they decided t

within 50,o ob/gyn's 100 miles of a lot of expectant mothers. keep trying to think logically and constructively, and i think my colleagues here has been very good about things like that. but this just is not going to last. >> i would add briefly, nice to our first client coming out of the white house was president clinton and we work for him for the first four years of his post-presidency and occasionally afterwards. i was very much part of that transition he made to post presidency and understanding what the limits really were on his voice and freedom to maneuver and how he could be most helpful in advancing the ideas and policies and programs that have been such a part of his presidency. one of the things that struck me at that time and still strikes me about bill clinton in his post presidency, and i think this is true very much of the and carter,shes reagan did not get quite the same post-presidency as others because of the onset of alzheimer's. the restraint and respect they have shown. i think one of the most heartening stories and politic

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and that's most of rural america, there are no ob-gyn's within 50, 100 miles of expectant mothers. so it's not-- the, you know, just keep, keep trying to think logically and constructtively and i think my colleagues here have been very good about things like that. you know, but this is-- this just isn't going to last. >> i would just add briefly, nice to meet you, and our first client coming out of the white house was president clinton and we worked with him for the first four years of his post-presidency and occasionally afterwards. i was very much a part of the transition he made to post-presidency and understanding what the limits really were on his voice and his freedom of maneuver and how he could be most helpful to -- in advancing the ideas and the policies and programs such a part of his presidenciment one of the things that struck me at that time and still strikes me about bill clinton in his post-presidency and i think it's true very much of the bushes and their post-presidency and president carter. president reagan didn't get quite the post-presidency that the others had

they have medical, behavioral health, dental, on optometry, ob/gyn, pharmacy, raidology, school-based health care services. these are the health care providers for rural america, and it's not only maine, it's across the country. 10,000 sites across the united states, 26 million patients at risk. what's the big deal? the big deal is people are going to lose their health care services. we estimate that in maine we're going to lose about 400 clinicians and administrative and support staff will have to be laid off unless we solve this problem. at least 25 of these sites will be forced to close, and we believe there will be almost 30,000 maine residents who will lose their access to their health care system. most of the health care fqhc, federally qualified health centers, are getting by on their funding from last year so that the shortfall of the expiration of the funding hasn't hit them yet, but it will begin to hit them on january 1, and that's what we have to respond to. it also is already having an effect just by creating uncertainty. i got an impassioned letter from the leader of one

i was raised by an ob/gyn nurse and born in 1953, i was raised to bk friendly and treat people with respects a country -- to be gay friendly and treat people with ignore the way women treat women in corporate america and in taxpayer-funded and homosexual victims and perpetrators, and male victims. we have to address all of it. host: florida is calling in on the democratic line from troy, michigan. is calling in on the democratic line from troy, michigan. caller: the biggest news story is the life trying to be perpetrated -- lie tried to be perpetrated, the tax break for the middle class. the millionaires tax cut was a death tax-cut. i do not know how many millionaires need protection because it is around $11 million they have protection. encompassingngs -- the entire story of saving the middle-class, different loopholes for people that are involved in commercial real estate. all sorts of things that they talk about, saving the family farm. uncleicle has a very -- has a very large farm, he was an immigrant. his property was very valuable. him this is how you divide your property among your c

. >> thank you very much for allowing me to come and talk and share my experience as an ob/gyn in rural kansas. 92 people die in this country every day from opioid addiction. what i wanted to do was describe a couple sentinel events, why did we end up in this situation? as i look back in these last ten years the number of pills that i would send home for a post-op patient doubled. for the average c section, the average his recollect my, all the sudden each week to get the people that post-op visit the number of pills they would need literally doubled. i went back to figure out why and how come. first thing i think of, patient bill of rights came about in 1993 or so. over the next ten years there was a great document, patients suddenly began to expect that they should have no pain, no pain after surgery. they would come into the e.r. with a sprained ankle and expect to have no pain the demand for narcotics went up and up. somewhere in the early 2000s, the worst thing i've ever seen introduced. they suddenly described the amount of pain they had, which was very subjective. and beyond that