robert pearl?gratulations on your daughter and thank her on behalf of all americans for her dedication and efforts during this pandemic. i want to and for size that, even more than just doctors and nurses, all the people in the hospital are having to address the challenges, including housekeepers, dietitians, the other individuals who are interacting with patients because they, too, know that patients are dying. i ask listeners to think about what it would be like if you dedicated your life to saving lives, and now every day you see death at a level you never could have imagined. james is absolutely right, the impact is going to be large. for some it has already impacted, for some it is happening now, and for many it will be in the future. host: let's hear from patricia in iowa. caller: good morning. dr. pearl, i just have a comment i wanted to make. and it is that it is no wonder that doctors and nurses are suffering from ptsd. they are in a war. no different than the military, except that this wa

robert pearl on how covid-19 affects the u.s. health care system as a whole.ches c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> this week, the u.s. house is expected to begin work on voting rights and the $3.5 trillion budg

prepared to discuss these issues and our featured guest here today on today's program, doctor robert pearl. as some may know doctor pearl is the former ceo of the permanente medical group and he's at graduate school of business. he is also the author of the best-selling book mistreated and is also the host of a podcast fixing healthcare. today we are here to discuss his new book "uncaring: how the culture of medicine kills doctors and patients". with those introductions out of the way, one more quick important note. of housekeeping before we get started today. if you have a question, please use the youtube chat feature, the questions will be submitted to me throughout the program and i will try to ask as many questions as possible during today's program. so let's jump in. doctor pearl, if i may when did you first realize you wanted to write about physician culture? was there a formative moment where you thought, this culture thing is the problem, i should write about it or did you accumulate over time? >> thank you judy. in 2017 i published the book mistreated. and it pointed out all of th

robert pearl will talk about the covid-19 pandemic's impact on the u.s. health care system.n the discussion with your phone calls to my facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. -- phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. washington journal is next. ♪ host: the evacuation, the rescue of americans and afghans from kabul's airport becomes more fast-paced but perilous by the day with the u.s. military going thousands out daily and president biden announcing some commercial airlines will join in moving evacuees and refugees around the world. the president's deadline for u.s. troop withdrawal is august 30 first, next tuesday. it is monday, august 23. we will spend this first hour here on the program playing some of the news briefing yesterday by the p

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robert pearl on how covid-19 affects the u.s. health care system as a whole. watches c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> this week, the u.s. house is expected to begin work on voting rights and the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, as well as the infrastructure bill. it all starts monday when the rules committee works to work out the structure of the debate. watch their work life starting at 11:00 eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. ♪ >> tell a man's takeover was the subject of some of the news programs. liz cheney shared her thoughts on nbc's meet the press. here are some of her remarks. >> we have to ensure that we get every american out, and we have to ensure we get out the afghans who helped us. that is our responsibility. as you pointed out, what we are watching unfold on the ground is a complete catastrophe. you hear the national security advisor say it is a little turbulence, or to sug