she says herself has been taken to the the united medical center around nine monday morning. she wait thed outside to be -- she waited outside. according to them, they waited from 9 a.m. to around 4 p.m. one of those waiting were an elderly woman saying she had chest pains. after complaining to the hospital staff, she says that the woman was finally able to get treatment around 4:00 but says that the woman went into cardiac arrest very soon after being called back. and will and her daughter, she came running out screaming. just screaming and just saying my mom, my mom is dead. they let her die. they just let her die. and i grabbed her. >> she says that there is quite a to do in the hospital as others who waited expressed outrage about the news that the woman they were waiting hours when died. we have been in contact with the woman's family who says that her version of the story is very similar to theirs. again, the united medical center in a statement that expresses their deepest sympathies and acknowledges them investigating the death adding in there, and the the regardless

in the initial review, the united medical center in southeast believes they could not have preventedan's death. dave dave joining us with that. >> reporter: the united medical center is a more recent name for the former greatest area. the hospital in a statement says they are can you be thing a thorough investigation with the dc health department as to what happened in the emergency department yesterday. according to a witness in the e.r. waiting area, it's

>>you may know of the united medical center by the old name the greater southeast community hospital. in a statement the hospital expresses its deepest sympathies and says the death is under investigation. upon initial review of the medical records it does not appear that any actions taken by the hospital could have prevented that patient's death. >>supporters of the public option are trying to prevent that idea on capitol hill. they lost a big vote with republicans and democrats teaming up to say no in a committee. here's what may happen next. >>reporter: as you know the public option is a government supported medical insurance program that would compete with private plans in an attempt to lower costs and cover those that can't afford the private option. today it just didn't have the votes >>mr. conrad the. >>no. >>mrs. lincoln? >>no are rp even some democrats who might prefer the option voted no thinking it would kill chances for reform. >>i can count. no one has been able to show me how they can count up to 60 votes with the public option. >>reporter: opponents think it stack it is

. >>> united medical center says an investigation is underway in to the death of the -- of a woman who waited hours in their hospital's er. witnesses say an elderly woman complaining of chest pain sat for more than six hours. when she was finally seen she went in to cardiac arrest and died. the hospital says an initial review finds her death could not have been prevented. >>> the senate finance committee has dealt a fatal blow to the health care reform plan. yesterday a group of democrats and republicans voted twice to reject a government run health care option. the chairman of the committee said he blocked a public plan because there isn't enough support to pass the public option in the full senate. >> i can count, and no one has been able to show me how they can count up to 60 votes with a public option in the bill. >> reporter: democratic supporters of a public option argue that nonprofit government- run health care is needed to drive down costs by creating competition with for profit insurers. >>> time for the first "living $mart" report of the morning and jessica doyle is here wit

on a stretcher. >> reporter: training for that comes in part by putting air force medics on duty in baltimore ems units and following through to treatment at shock trauma. >> as they ride along with the paramedics, actually bring the patients into shock trauma and hand them off to the air force doctors, nurses and medics that are working in the shock trauma center, will simulate exactly the same situation that is occurring in the battlefield. >> the goal is to make every effort to human care. >> everything i saw said not only is it being done safely, it's being done superbly. >> reporter: pat warren, wjz eyewitness news. >> the doctor says understanding has come out of the gains. >>> ed go -- good news from wall street today. the feds' chairs comments about the recession encourage investors. and let's go to new york right now for the latest from wall street. >>> shoppers return to the malls, boosting retail sales in august by the largest amount in more than three years. the 2.7% jump was better than expected. and it appears to back up optimistic remarks from the chairman of the federal reserve. ben ber

we did just hear a medic unit called for a civilian injury, but we do believe it's minor. back to you on tv hill. >> done a great job all day. thank you. stay with eyewitness news for complete coverage of the water main break. for update, the slide show of the flooding and more of the areas affected go to wjz.com. >>> now to the other story we've been following all week. a hopkins student used a samurai sword to kill a man who was inside his home. donald rice lunged at palamilo and the young man lunged a sword at rice. >>> five baltimore teens are charged tonight with attempted murder. it all stems tonight with a violent incident. one of the teens mother's helped in the attack. >> reporter: five teens challenged in an attempted case, some of the kids are students. one of the mothers may face attempted charges too. >> seems like the mother wanted to get revenge on a boy who she fought hit her teen. >> reporter: they wanted to confront the victim, 14-year- old malakai maloy. >> she drove some of them to the scene, as a group they attacked maloy and his friends. >> reporter:

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. >>> our medical unit is answering your questions about h1n1 swine flu, and you can post your questions at "the world newser" at abcnews.com. >>> residents in the atlanta area got a break from the wet weather today. there was no rain. and flood waters have started to recede. one early estimate puts the flood damage at a quarter of a billion dollars. georgia's state budget is in bad shape and residents of the area, as they return home, are finding out their state cannot provide help. here's steve osunsami. >> reporter: at the six flags amusement park outside atlanta today, there was no fun ú]5 happening here. they were still under water. today, many families returned home. the water, in places, has begun to recede. >> i'm speechless. i mean, it's beyond words. >> reporter: we walked in with four families, in one of the hardest-hit areas -- to see what was left. >> i don't know where to start. i don't know where to start. i have no clue what to do right now. >> reporter: each home was a disaster. the furniture, the refrigerators and other appliances were turned upside down. >> the pressur

sanjay gupta is here in afghanistan, reporting from trauma centers, air mobile medical units, talkingoctors, medics, showing you how they're saving lives every day. aun jay's also been closely following the recovery of a 2-year-old afghan boy who suffered a massive brain injury. the kid's name is malik and many of you have been profoundly touched by his strength and determination. today army special forces flew malik back did a clinic choser to his village. sanjay gupta made the trip with the boy. here's his report. >> this was going to end well. but when we met malik, he looked like this. bandaged, broken and desperate. a toddler from a remote high mountain village, malik had fallen down a cliff like this when a u.s. special forces unit found him. >> he ended up falling off the roof and landed on his head. causing a fracture. then he started to get a hematoma, which was causing the problems he was seriously having. >> reporter: army special forces. this is them at work. these guys are the elite, the invisible warriors, and this is showing how they got malik out of the mountains. by c

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sanjay gupta has been in afghanistan reporting from trauma centers, air mobile medical units, doctors been following the recovery of a 2-year-old afghan boy who suffered massive brain injury. many of you have been touched by his strength and determination. today army special forces flew malik back to a clinic closer to his village. >> reporter: this was going toened well. but when we met malik he looked like this. bandaged, broken, desperate. a toddler from a remote village, malik had fallen down a cliff like this when a u.s. special forces unit found him. >> he ended up falling off the roof and landed on his head. causing a fracture. then he started to get a hematoma, which was causing the problems he was seriously having. >> reporter: army special forces. this is them at work. these guys are the elite, the invisible warriors, and this is how they got malik out of the mountains. by cover of night they would chopper him to a military surgical hospital. it was the boy's only hope. these guys are special forces. hard-core. they've never been filmed before. they wouldn't even tell me the

we had testimony in the judiciary committee from doctors that there were 1 million medical bankruptcy's ies in the united states caused by medical bills. ever hear of that? nobody has heard of that. ok. well, i cannot ask you to comment on that. let's do it hypothetically. if you heard and learned about that, with that cast some concern on neyou about the problems that individuals are going through when the largest cause of individual bankruptcies in the intended states -- in the united states are due to medical bills that people could not afford. you would be concerned? may i send you some things? you are sending us a lot of things. may i send you more information about that subject? ok. thank you, mr. chairman, for your generosity. >> congressman kennedy, you may proceed for 5 minutes. >> thank you for holding the hearing. thank you for your patience this afternoon. i am looking forward to getting responses to the questions i asked earlier. i would ask all of you if you would give me an affirmative in terms of working with my office in closing a loophole that appeared in last year's mental health and a

there was a legal document in case they wanted to fly their son to the united states to get medical care instead of going to win local hospital. they say that these people threatened to release the legal form unless the troubled of -- unless the troubled of -- travoltas pay them $25 million. on this date in 1846, a german astronomer became the first person to view the planet neptune, and a french person had theorized it was there, but he did not have any proof. they put the theory to the test. the german point a telescope up into the heavens, and there it was, a giant blue ball of gas four times the size of earth. it is 3 billion miles from here, but it was closer than it ever been

it turns out some canadians have come to the united states to get medical treatment. springer is live from vancouver british columbia tonight. dan, why is it -- actually, i should say, why come to the united states if there is already free health care from the canadian government even if in the rain? >> bottom line, shep, if you can't get access to it, it doesn't matter if it is free. we heard compelling stories from the canadians to a 2-year-old boy who had seizures and woman too overweight to have hip replacement surgery. and lindsey from toronto who was diagnosed with golf ball size tumor on his brain. after getting mri in the united states he was told by his canadian doctor it would be four months to wait for a specialist. he came to the u.s. to buffalo to have that life saving operation. and a rare spinal condition, she said she was in executioniating pain. t. it took a year to diagnosis because of lack of diagnostic testing. she said the wait was absolute hell. >> i lost feeling in parts of my feet. i also lost control of my bladder. so, basically i'm 29 years ol

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medical costs. we know something like 60% to 70% of bankruptcies in the united states are due to medical care. >> you have been, i understand, very critical of the blue dogs. why? >> well, i think the blue dogs have not been consistent with their principles. i believe they're right, we need to do this that way that's fiscally responsible and need to make sure it's good for the districts the blue dogs represent. in fact, they have been opposed to the public health insurance option available to people who don't have country. it's going to help people in the rural country. it's the key o keep the costs of the overall bill down. i wasn't calling them out. i was telling them if they believed in fiscal responsibility and helping their constituents this was a good idea. >> professor hacker, in all of your studies of this issue, isn't the key issue the pre-existing condition that people are excluded from getting any coverage in this country? we get the idea, there's 40-some odd million people without coverage. the idea some people have is they're poor and can't afford it. there are many people excluded becau

medical association. i hope everybody realizes that only 20% of the doctors in the united states of america belong to the american medical association. 20%. that means 80% do not belong. so if you get 73% of 20%, that is the amount of doctors you might be talking about. that amounts to about 14% of all doctors in the united states. so i do not think it is a fair quote to say that 73% of all doctors in the united states are for a public option plan. and medicare has been mentioned quite frequently, that that is a given public option. absolutely. we all agree it is. we all agree it has been here since 1965. we all agree that it also over spends to the tune of having $37 trillion in underfunded liability. $37 trillion. does anybody have any idea how much money that is proved -- that is proof $37 trillion? -- that is proof -- that is? since our national debt is approximately $12 trillion, but in 2017 or 2018, depending on who is counting the numbers, medicare will go, medicare part a, will go bankrupt, so unless we do something in this medical fix to take care of the bankruptcy, and there are arguments on bot

work, but at the same time, we need to be very careful not to destroy the things that make medical care in the united states the best medical care in the world. i think what concerns many of us is this proposal of a government takeover of our health care system where the government would come in all under the guise of competing against private companies. of course, anybody that understands what competition really means and looks at the concept of the federal government with taxpayer backing coming in as your competitor when they write the rules that both of you have to play by, they've got this health care czar that they are creating in their bill, which, by the way, i think it is up to 30 czars now created in this administration. we need to sunset these czars and get rid of these czars and shouldn't have people with these unbrideled powers that have no accountability to the publian

united states. >>> also some major medical news tonight. researchers say they may be a step closer to a vaccine for hiv and aids. we'll get to all those stories in a moment. chief of staffor councilman jim graham has been arrested and indicted on bribery charges. i'm craig melvin. >> i'm eun yang. jim and doreen have the evening off. ted loza is accused of promoting srn laws for taxi cabs in exchange of cash and gifts. >>> ted loza was accused of taking money. when asked why he took the money, he said he needed it. he was a long-time aide to jim graham for ten years. fbi agents early thursday

under subcommittee chairwoman linda sanchez from doctors that there were 1 million medical bankruptcies in the unitedates. that is personal bankruptcies caused by medical bills. ever hear of that? nobody has heard of that? okay. well, i can't ask you to comment on that. hypothetically, if you heard and learned about that, would that cast some concern on you about the problems that individuals are going through when the largest cause of individual bankruptcies in the united states are due to medical bill that is people couldn't afford? you'd be concerned? may i send you some things? you're sending us a lot of things. can i send you more information about that subject? okay. thank you mr. chairman for your generosity. >> i want to thank the gentleman. finally, congressman kennedy, you may proceed for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for holding this. thank you all for your patience there afternoon. i would ask all of you, if you would just give me an affirmative in working with my office and closing a loophole that appeared in last year's well stone mental health act bill. we imply it

under subcommittee chairwoman linda sanchez from doctors that there were 1 million medical bankruptcies in the unitedates. that is personal bankruptcies caused by medical bills. ever hear of that? nobody has heard of that? okay. well, i can't ask you to comment on that. hypothetically, if you heard and learned about that, would that cast some concern on you about the problems that individuals are going through when the largest cause of individual bankruptcies in the united states are due to medical bill that is people couldn't afford? you'd be concerned? may i send you some things? you're sending us a lot of things. can i send you more information about that subject? okay. thank you mr. chairman for your generosity. >> i want to thank the gentleman. finally, congressman kennedy, you may proceed for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for holding this. thank you all for your patience there afternoon. i would ask all of you, if you would just give me an affirmative in working with my office and closing a loophole that appeared in last year's well stone mental health act bill. we imply it

medical coverage. if you are a citizen of the united states, you cannot be turned down. if you have a prolapsed colon, you qualify. we simply must draw the line somewhere. we cannot pay for everything. for example, cooties are covered but not the heeby jeebies. cabin fever, covered. loto fever, not covered. full lights covered but butterfingers not covered. breast augmentation? covered. [applause] >> breast reduction, not covered. norah: all right, when we come back, that congressman who yelled "liar." and here's conan o'brien's take. >> republican congressman's joe wilson has apologized for calling president obama a liar during his speech on health care. obama accepted his apology then invited him to appear before a death panel. norah: so why all the hatred? was it unavoidable for this groundbreaking president or did he make some mistakes to give permission slips to the haters? plus, scoops and predictions right out of the notebooks of these top reporters. be right back. norah: welcome back. the summer was rife with craziness in those town halls but september has been j

university recently came out with a study that said 30% of all the health care in the united states of america is medicallyunnecessary, and one of the driving reasons why that's being the case is the fear of medical malpractice lawsuits. everyone in this debate realizes we've got overbaking of the costs because of medical malpractice concerns so he could take on one of his constituencies, the trial lawyers and say you know what? we need to come together on this issue. republicans would embrace that as one example. >> if he were to do something like that, would you embrace a backup public option if they went to the trigger approach that we create a public option? it only kicks in if three or five years they set a deadline f the insurance market isn't for competitive, if there isn't more access or affordability? >> there's lots of things we could agree to. the public option isn't one of them. the trigger option kicks the can down the road it, delays the inevitable and for a lot of reasons it's a bad idea. if the democrats embrace the public option even in the form of the trigger they'll shoot themselves in t

for a simple, in 2005 united kingdom department of health stated in consumer advisory, quote, chief medical officers strongly advise when children and young people lose mobile phones they should be encouraged to use mobile phones for ascent purposes only. ebal calls short, prolonged exposure and should be described. in contrast the food and drug administration of the federal communications commission have all but ignored evidence that long-term cell phone use may be risky. the fcc said cellphone radiation standards 17 years ago when a few people used cell phones the standards failed to provide adequate for cellphone radiation exposure and do not account for risks to children. the science itself on risks we recommend a number of actions to the cellphone radiation and putting use low radiation phone, use a hand set and let children cell phone use. in conclusion, ewg believes government should support additional research into this question and allows the public has the rights to know what levels of radiation they may be exposed to, what is the potential risk and what precautionary measures con

united states. i want to emphasize most of the children had other medical conditions however the latest findings underred the fact that younger people seem vulnerable to the h1n1 virus. the cdc reports swine flu deaths appear to be higher in children who are at least five years old. half of the kids who die from the regular flu are four or younger. >> most of the children who had fatal h1n1 infection this past spring had an under lying condition. >> medical conditions are considered high risk and include mental retardation, cerebral palsy and epilepsy, of the children what were healthy, many were probably killed by this virus and a bacterial infection. in tennessee, health officials are trying to get more information on the swine flu death of a 5 year old kinder kindergarten student. college students are also vulnerable. a recent report claims 1600 cases of the swine flu and the first weeks of classes, some campuss such as atlanta's university have quarantined infected students for their safety and that of a healthy student body. >> i think it's -- it keeps you around other people that are going throu

medical crisis. but at the time, none was available. so, after running, winning and coming here to the united states senate, the family and medical leave a bill i wanted to stan8h8'x up%wa7w and for. and as it turnedn2s2 out, it wa the first bill we considered, and senator kennedyí managing that bill on the senate floor. i found out he, too, had a personal connection to that bill. i well remember one day when senator kennedy pulled me aside to tell me about how he had spent a lot imtime with his own son in the hospital fighting cancer, and how he had# many people at that time who couldn't afford to take time off to care for their loved one, and how some were forced to quit their jobs to take care of somebody they loved because they were sick. he told me that together we were going to work hard and get this bill passed, and then he showed this rookie how you do it. week after week he fought against bad amendments to get the>yÑ votes we needed to pass he blended just the right mix of patience and passion. he spoke out loudly in speeches when he needed to, and he whispered into the ear of his colleagues when that was called for. in the fe

researching hospital errors, immersing himself in medical journals, even testifying before a congressional committee. >> up to 100,000 patients in the unitedtates alone die in hospitals every year because of medical errors. that's the equivalent of one major airline crash a day every single day of every year. >> have a seat right in the middle there. >> reporter: at the moment, your health history is probably kept like this. on paper. that's how 90% of hospitals and 83% of doctors store them. >> when we open up the chart, we have all the patient demographics. >> reporter: there are thousands of these folders in dr. claudia guss's office. of. >> a snapshot of the patient's medical history. >> reporter: few other industries still rely on paper records. there's no back-up, no way to search them all at once, no way to harness them en mass for research. but that's going to change. if you're wondering what the future world might look like when all medical records are electronic, you don't have to imagine it. kaiser permanente has spent $4 billion in five years installing an electronic medical system in its 430 office buildings and 5 hospitals in

the united states has always been a leader in medical research, your making this a high priority wouldg children. consequently, even if a small risk exists, the great number of users could result in great damage. until definite answers are available, some public health measures with special emphasis on children should be instituted. preventive steps for other technology such as driving provide a good example. we all use cars, but in order to reduce the risk of accident, legislation was passed concerning the use of seat belts, air bags, minimum age of driving, speed limits. i think it's exactly the same thing. i believe that cell phone technology which has many advantages is here to stay. however, the question, as far as i am concerned -- the question that needs to be answered is not whether we should use cell phones but how we should use them. and that is very easy to address, i think. it is my hope that the issues raised in this hearing will encourage you to promote research and take action to ensure the safes' responsible use of cell phones. i would like to thank dr. davis who invite

is the leading cause of death among women, killing twice as many in the united states of all cancers combined. nbc's chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman is here with the risk factors and symptoms we need to know. dr. nancy, good morning. >> hi, ann. >> a lot of us think about breast cancer, but not the thing that's most likely to kill us. >> cardiovascular disease is the biggest killer in the country. we worry about breast and ovarian cancer, but every woman needs to worry about her heart. >> basically, it kills 1 in 30 women. >> right. and one in two women will likely have heart disease. >> so, you know, why -- is there any evidence that it's actually increasing in women, in fact, more than we -- we think of it as something that men have. >> we think of 40 and 50-year-old men. i think that's part of the problem. so, one, we are seeing an increase in heart disease because of the obesity rise, high blood pressure issues. so, yes, it's going up, but also, we're finally paying attention to the fact that heart disease isn't just a guy's disease. and especially for women after menopause, the rates really go up. >

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could do, harvard came out with a study that says 30% of all the health care in the united states of america is medically of the driving reasons why that's been the case is the fear of medical malpractice lawsuits. everyone in in debate realizes we have an overbaking of the cost because of medical malpractice concerns. he could take on the kril lawyers and say we need to come together on this issue. republicans would embrace that. >> if he were to do something like that, would you embrace a backup public option if they went to the trigger approach? it only kicks in in three years or five years if the insurance market isn't more competitive? >> there's lot of things we could agree to a bipartisan basis, john. the public option isn't one of them. the trigger option kicks the can down the road. it's a bad idea, and i think if the democrats embrace the public option in the form of trigger, they will shoot themselves in the foot. >> what about the thing you see quite frequently out here include inning your state and farm states, the co-op. could you help them there and support it? >> minnesota has elements of

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your side that what you are asking is that every person in this country who seeks medical attention in a hospital in the united states, including native-born republicans would have to present proof of birth every time. in other words, you want national identity cards to be checked and rechecked and -- faked? senator graham of south carolina taking a page out of the karl rove playbook by accusing the president, the president of having behaved in an undignified manner last night, criticizing the tone of his speech, not the crazy tone of a member of his own state's congressional delegation but the tone of the president. boss limbaugh, meanwhile, apparently upset that he was not consulted before the apology. >> i want to tell you something. one of the things that's irritated me all morning and last night was listening to republicans even after wilson has apologized, and i wish he had not, that he's apologized and even after he's apologized members of his own party are all over television denigrating him. yeah, that was bad decorum. folks, can i tell you what's happening here? this is not -- this speech last night

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university recently came out with a study that said 30% of all the health care in the united states of america is medically and one of the driving reasons why that's being the case is the fear of medical malpractice lawsuits. everyone in this debate realizes we've got overbaking of the costs because of medical malpractice concerns so he could take on one of his constituencies, the trial lawyers and say you know what? we need to come together on this issue. republicans would embrace that as one example. >> if he were to do something like that, would you embrace a backup public option if they went to the trigger approach that we create a public option? it only kicks in if three or five years they set a deadline if the insurance market isn't for competitive, if there isn't more access or affordability? >> there's lots of things we could agree to. the public option isn't one of them. the trigger option kicks the can down the road it, delays the inevitable and for a lot of reasons it's a bad idea. if the democrats embrace the public option even in the form of the trigger they'll shoot themselves in the foot. >>

if he can't pull off that miracle, then government-run medical care in the united states can be expectedto produce what government-run medical care in canada, britain, and other countries has produced. delays of weeks or months to get many treatments, not to mention arbitrary rationing decision by bureaucrats. sole later draws a parallel to the difference in the words and needs of president obama and other areas of policy. he writes, obama can deny it words but what matters are deeds. and no one's words have been more repeatedly the direct opposite of his deeds whether talking about how his election campaign would be financed, how he would not rush legislation through congress, or how his administration was not going after c.i.a. agents for their past efforts to extract information from captured terrorists. president obama has also declared emphatically he will not interfere in the internal affairs ever other nations, while telling the israelis where they can and cannot build settlements and telling the hondurans whom they should and should not choose to be their president. then sole wri