samadi pointed out dr. sedine in colorado last year, also with cardiology appointment where people got hepatitis c. in general, this is a rare occurrence. still, if you go to any doctor's appointment, you look at the sterile procedures, is the doctor wearing gloves? david will talk more. i'm tern concerned here about hepatitis primarily because hepatitis b, a single needle stick carries with it a 30% chance of actually giving you a chronic infection and 4.5 million people in the united states are carrying chronic hepatitis b and hepatitis c infections and most of them don't know it. now, hepatitis c, in underdevel underdeveloped countries, is a real epidemic just for this reason, contaminated medical equipment. in egypt, 15% of the population is carrying hepatitis c. but that's a lot harder to get than hepatitis c. people will want to know about hiv. i actually had four or five needle sticks from an hiv contaminated needle when i was an intern. but the risk is 1 in 300 by being stuck by a known needle. the

samadi brought up what's behind the fear. for information for people out there, it's the second bump. you see the little bump and then the spike? it's the second bump. between the spike and that second bump is the qt we're talking about. >> it opens up a conversation between the doctor and the patient. >> jamie: if we start reading our electrocardiograms ourselves, we're in trouble. >> eric: we look at this thing going beep, beep, beep, beep. has this ever happened to you? you're lying in bed or whatever and you get pressure in the chest, and it's like oh, am i having a heart attack? you know what the symptoms are. >> jamie: now you're scaring them. >> eric: wait a minute. how do we know, and how can you tell, dr. samadi, let's say you have shortness of breath and sweating if it's a heart attack or if it's something else? >> eric sounds like a cardiologist now. this is really important. we've talked about this. when you talk about chest or cardiac heart disease and heart attack, heart attack usually presents itself as a chest

samadi.hand doctors are worried about mall practice and they have to cover themself by doing a thorough exam. on the other hand they have to book a lost patient lot of patie their monthly expenses. >> before we start blaming the doctors for this, i think part of it is because medicine has become very complicated. we're looking at diseases that have many, many common symptoms, and somebody will come in with chest pain and short of breath. what exactly is it? is it heart disease? is it heart attack? is it pneumonia? is it bronchitis. >> jamie: acid reflux. >> exactly right. it could be a triple a, aneurysm of the aorta. a lost disease have common symptoms. it's our be work as a detective to narrow it down. how does that work? we used to have better communication skills. over time exactly what jamie said happens. time are getting shorter and shorter. the average time doctors spend with a patient is seven minutes. during that seven minutes you go through our soap notes, subjective objective asses

david samadi. >> and dark mar dr. marc siegele author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. >> eric: good morning, docs. >> good to see you. >> jamie: everyboderic scared e. >> eric: here's what we know about the new super bug. 42 states are reporting that they have at least one patient who surface from the super bug. it's most common in the northeast. they say it's increased from 1 to 4% over the last ten years and kills up to half the patients who get it in their blood stream. so dr. samadi, what is the super bug, how many are there, and what do we do to protect ourselves from becoming a victim? >> the last segment, sentence that you mentioned, the hal fact that people die from it and we have zero antibiotic treatment to treat this, that's what the cdc calls it a super bug or nightmare bug. what it really is, they call it a cre, and the name of it is car carbopeneum. just so you know, compared to the rest of the antibiotics, is a martin luther king lar bomb. it's a -- it's a nuclear b

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david samadi, chief of the division of robotics at the mt. sinai center.ing edge of operating on ovarian cancer. why isn't women getting what they need? >> these are scary statistics. there was a meeting in los angeles and a doctor from ucla presented this data. they positive followed about 13,000 patients 1999 through 2006. they are finding out 80% of the women of ovarian cancer are not getting appropriate treatment. a lot of it is because most surgeons and doctors are not seeing a lot of these patients. we know that the ovarian cancer, first treatment is the best treatment. we'll get a little more in to it but what they are saying in the hands of experienced surgeons, there are survival benefits. if you are diagnosed and you go to your gynecologist you are going to hurt yourself by being in the hands of the wrong doctor. >> jamie: so you want to go to oncologist a cancer special-i. many women don't know what to look for and that is why they call it one of silent killers. how do women know it's not a back ache or something else? >> it's a great point. its

david samadi is here next with that. >> then, a lesson on how not to rob a store.hat this guy is up to, coming up. ♪ an arrest has been made in connection with with the killing of a colorado prison chief. this woman allegedly bought the weapon that was used to kill tom clements. she is charged with giving the man accused of the murder evan eeble. he was killed in a gun fight days after the murder. what's in a name. car battery company that got millions from taxpayers making some changes. a 123 systems changing its name to b 456 systems. a 123 awarded 249-million-dollar grant from the obama administration in 2009 and already received 133 of it when it filed for bankruptcy. it was later bought by a chinese firm. and he is being hailed a bridge builder for the nypd. chief philip banks the iii just named the chief of the department. that's the agency's top breaking uniform position. chief banks is previously the head of community affairs. speaker for the hailed apprentice program. congratulations. pattie ann? >> ainsley some new developments in the fight against cancer

good morning. -- spwad samadi. it's called v i ritrol. they are figuring out how it helps us. >> got a lot of media publicity. it was one of the biggest antioxidants. so many doctors jumped on the band wagon saying how it's great from you. obviously it comes from red wine and it is the skin of grape. it was thought this antioxidant can help with you diabetes, heart disease, et cetera. the news today is coming out of harvard medical school, tells us it is not a great antioxidant and now they are finding out the real mechanism. there is something called the longevity gene. this gene is the secret. it activates an enzyme called sirt-1. now we know the gene and we know the enzyme, companies like glaxo smith are jumping on this trying to come up with a concentrated extract medication. it can help with d.n.a. repair so when you go to sleep, seven hours of sleep, that's when all the d.n.a. repair happens. all the diseases we have from diabetes to heart disease have to do with inflammation. this respiritol extract can help. imagine obese rats whe

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david samadi. there are certain things you should have. >> top of the list is the blood pressure.blood pressure. if you go to your doctor's office and they check your blood pressure and it's high, you don't have high blood pressure. 140 over 90 three times, that's the real definition of high blood pressure. you want to make sure you maintain your blood pressure below that number. somewhere in the range of 120, 130 to over 70 or 80 would be that's very important for prevention of stroke. >>steve: let's see my numbers. and the winner is? my blood pressure right now is, doctor? >> 120 over 70. i just checked your blood pressure and it was fantastic. this is ideal number a lot of people want to shoot for. >>steve: for people who are at the drug store, can they sit down in that chair and put their arm in that, does that thing work? >> they're fairly accurate. you want to know about it. if the first number is wrong, repeat it on another occasion. if you're excited about something, if you just saw me, your blood pressure shoots up, repeat it again and make sure it is okay. >>steve: you'r