America's Leading Black Physicians

Before you go to the press part of this Dr. Swygert wanted to recognize one or two faculty people. I'm impressed that only one people would know if I just knew this is going to sound like a Levice Study Center figures. I just wanted to take a moment. Dr. Gallagher thank you very much for acknowledging the staff of the faculty and the officers of the university. This is the second week of what we hope will be a very long tenure for the new provost the provost the chief academic officer of the university and the one person who in a real sense has the most important responsibility because her responsibility is the superintendency of the academic program of the university which is what we really are all about. And I'd like to acknowledge or ask you to join me in welcoming Dr. A toy call Colbert he's with us. To the doctors. Let me just play what I want to bring Alfred Edmond back up to take whatever

questions it might be. But first of all we printed almost 700 thousand copies of the issue that you have in front of you said will be enough copies for you to get extra copies sent to you. What are the requirements that our editors always have but take it for a younger doc. Is it any old girlfriend who writes you please send us the letters directly to our office or boyfriends I mean expat now bye. Secondly this has been already covered by USA Today in terms of their acknowledgement of it and they're dealing with it in terms of newspaper newspapers Reuters has always already done it. It is also on all the wire services as we talk and so there is no way to put your name back it is out there forever. And I think that is right. But for those people from the print media who might still be here and then we're going to have a further opportunity to have Q And days after. Let me ask Alfred Edmond to come back up and do it before Alfred that comes up.

I want to take an opportunity to sound like church where we've acknowledged the senior choir we've got all the auxilary. But I want to and I know Earl agrees with me that we should acknowledge the health commissioner for the district Columbia. Dr. Ivan Walks joins. Us. Just me. Open the door for questions and your questions about the report questions about the doctors if there are or there are still be opportunities out obviously to talk to the doctors one on one who will be around or to talk to the editors. Monique Brown in particular who again led to the project I'll be around any questions. Yes. To be honest with you I was awestruck because it's not

something that is recognised as a premier issue that needs to be addressed in my work as a community transplant surgeon who goes in the community to educate and empower. I've identified and recognised that institutionalized racism is the number one obstacle and in trying to address institutionalized racism I've recognized that it requires re-education of the minority community and a major re-education of the majority community so that issues like this play a very powerful role in getting that message across that. For example patients have rights. Physicians have rights but patients have rights and who pays the bills. Basically the patients and in the past and this is well known now that women and people of color get a different kind of care than the majority population and so

therefore I think that is so appropriate and so timely and that's why I was awestruck with the fact that this is going to really put the issue right on the table and nail it home. And so those are the thoughts that I had. I was Ostrat for all of those reasons. Just let me add a little bit of something to that one is Earl Graves Jr. stressed earlier. We put this together as a tool for readers. I mean so that they can there's contact information for the doctors. They learn about their background but they also I need to get you know some help. Here's your doctor can contact so it wasn't just an exercise in celebration it was really set up as a consumer tool for it for the for the readers. The other thing we like to note is that you know a lot you know some people even around the offices we were developing this they said well you're a business magazine you know why would you devote this many pages this much effort toward health care issues. Well this is a really major economic issue it speaks to everything from how much earning power we are able to generate over the course of a lifetime

the kind of debts that we leave behind when we die at the peak of our earning years. It has broad economic impact. When you talk about the shorter life expectancy we pay more into the Social Security system for example and get less out of it because we die sooner. There are there are a wide range of issues that deal with the economic health of African-Americans that ties directly to the quality of health and quality of life that we experience because of our access or lack thereof to medical care. So this is a very important economic issue. The other questions. We want to stress the students are welcome to ask questions as well. In fact we very much encourage you to do so. Any other questions for anyone like a student sitting in a pigeon hole them one on one during a tour. OK. Oh yes why don't we. Yes sir. Very

great. I think there there's no place in heaven. There is reason to come out like this.

This is widespread. I suspect not as I'm sure it's true those chronic diseases that we experience we experience disparities in many chronic diseases. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Freeman. The recent. Issue. The. Fundamental.

Problem. Why. Is. This. Race. Raised. I was. Raised. By. Mary. See. This. Is how. The. Majority. Of. South. Are. You. Going. To. Make this up front of course from doc to either be Jones. Or issues.

Here. Have. Patience. I. Met. This. Year. I am making some. Patients. Have you. I've been denied services. To me. I had to. See that I is very. And also. Means United Services. Rendered these services have been some sometimes for. Me and my. Baby. This is Sir Anthony. He said. He's making it very difficult for patients not speak

she said. I. Don't want those. Two. Patients thinking that they have. Each episode only to find that's the issue because they have no choice. I question the physicians 100 black. Physicians about that. We understand this and that we as these positions educate our patients and our patients the way they do not. Have to be nice to them when they need you. The reason we decided to have this lunch after so we would have this opportunity this end to change and we're going to

have it but Dr. Chris Legget wanted to make a comment to. Me. Because I stand here today. Present. And I'm humbled. To. My. Personally my great. Mentor. And that's. The bottom line. Here. And. I think it's very important that the. Medical. School level that. Not only. Individuals. Actually. Help but identify individuals and actually. Actually stand for something you know they actually can get home by revolution. And. Tear. Down. Dr.. Freeman. Is. With. You. That's inspired keeps me motivated. To achieve and to limit the beard of these individuals and not just black. That's. Why. They're. At the very top.

And if you can identify those that. Can. Somehow manifest. Purpose. Then you can actually continue the continual Brenda with you. Heidi. I think that's the best statement that she can make and that is. In general. Because you know I'm no longer in competition. You just live at the very top and saying. If I. Give up. Because I really live by that. And is. Really. Inspired by. My. Hero. And Ben Carson. Mom. Before we have to take up a collection. Let me. Let me just give some of the. Administrative things that the doctors might be helpful. The magazine goes in a newsstand next week and so will be on the newsstands around the country at airports in the way that it is so

you understand the calendar of the magazine. It goes on all the airlines of the country in the month of the date on the magazine. So therefore if you got on an airplane today you will still see the July book. It is very good. And so the August issue when you will be featured would be picked on all around the country and going around the world. I could speak to that because we want the board of American Airlines we sell them 3000 copies. I know it's going up. And all the other airlines down. So therefore the questions and the issues that will be raised. A lot of the questions are read and you're a package but any of you who would have administrative issues that you wouldn't you want to have an answer to what should I say to this person who's written me a letter because that will happen also obviously and people will call you because there is phone numbers next to every person's day. Right. Right. All right. We're here to help you not just today but in the future. So and as you go down the road. So you need I'm just trying to give you a little heads up on what you can expect. And obviously this will give way. We did know in terms of your local newspapers and hometowns because they will obviously pick this up. So

any other question that as we do in the presidents that would be let the doctors are on a guess leave first to take their lunch and seat. Or you can sit wherever you want to is that right. Yes. Wherever you want to. So if you see somebody you like better than somebody else sit with them. And then there's students good luck just fine. But the students are welcome to a free lunch. All right. My mom. Wants to. Go there with you. So here. We go. Now. The shot as we. Have all the doctors here all around in the dark is going to leave before lunch. OK. We are to do that picture now. We want to do the group picture. Why do we do. They want to do that outside out there. But you know it may be better if you went outside the lighting conditions you. OK. OK. That's getting better.

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