dr rachel clarke, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ad pretty much two decades of doctoring. how has that time changed the way you do the job? well, i think i was pretty naive when i started, in the sense that i went through medical school that taught me essentially how to fix broken body parts. so that's the way you learn medicine. a sort of mechanical approach to medicine? yes. so, liver — how does a liver work? how does it break down? how do you fix it? then you'll move on to heart, lungs, brain. so you end up acquiring this kind of piecemeal, jigsaw approach to fixing broken bodies. and, strangely, given that most people want to become doctors because they care about people and they want to help them, patients as human beings are very often just sort of shoved to the periphery somewhat, and you're never taught overtly how to heal, how to imagine yourself in an empathetic relationship with patients, wherebyjust the act of talking with them itself can be therapeutic. so i think i came out of that very much of the mind—set that that wa

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there are 84,000 altogether that we know rachel in clark county, and so if they were to keep up that pace, and that's a big if, she would be in the lead in the race. rachel, there's more than that. there are 61,000 mail ballots that we don't know about in terms of what they're character is up in washoe county which is reno. it's a little bit of a closer county in the partisan breakdown. it's very even. we're not sure the democrats can pick up as much there, and one other detail to throw in is that there are a few thousand ballots, and we're not quite sure how many are left in rural nevada, those will heavily favor laxalt, although he will probably only gain a few thousand votes there. it's very uncertain still, but that first batch of clark county ballots has to be very heartening for democrats there. >> it's alex wagner here. in terms of those votes, and who cast what, can you give us a sense of the get out the vote effort? >> carrie reid is no longer there, he paid a pivotal role in organizing the vote effort in the state of nevada. the culinary workers union is democratic, how effe

rachel. as i mentioned, if they keep up the current pace in clark county, she is going to cut deeply into that statewide lead, and perhaps even take the lead. although it may not be practical to think that the 65%, all of those ballots, but if she gets 60% of the ballot. if she's going to win that race being equal. remember one other thing, there's more mail coming in, as long as you mentioned. it is postmarked on tuesday, and coming in through saturday. that's probably going to favor the democrats as well. >> having said that, the governor's race feels like a bridge too far, because of the margin there. and so it would really have to be a huge, huge mailed win and margins in there for steve cisa lack to overtake joe lumbar no. as you see there, the margin is twice what catherine cortez masto is behind by. but i think that this is going to be a poll for the rest of the democratic statewide ticket, for many of them over the top, including very importantly, the man running against one of the worst election deniers in the nation, jim arshad, his running for secretary of state. >> john ralston, ce