WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.960 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:04.960 3 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:09.060 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 4 00:00:11.140 --> 00:00:12.540 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 5 00:00:12.540 --> 00:00:13.360 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 6 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:27.280 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 7 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:40.600 When was the last time you had a good checkup? 8 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:41.360 Last year. 9 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:42.600 It's about a year ago? 10 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:43.280 11 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.020 Have you had any problems during the last year? 12 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:45.680 No. 13 00:00:45.860 --> 00:00:48.500 You've been feeling up until this nosebleed is pretty good? 14 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:53.880 In this country today there's 721 white people for each white physician. 15 00:00:54.940 --> 00:00:57.860 And there are 3800 people for each black physician. 16 00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:02.900 And we must begin to close that gap by producing black physicians. 17 00:01:04.300 --> 00:01:05.520 We'll go in a minute, okay? 18 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:06.040 Sure. 19 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:15.040 We have to, I think, impress upon the students that there is a need in the profession for black physicians. 20 00:01:15.860 --> 00:01:18.240 There's a need for black paramedical people. 21 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:19.860 There's a need for black midwives. 22 00:01:19.960 --> 00:01:21.880 There's a need for black nurses. 23 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:26.440 And we need people in order to carry out the program that we have to carry out. 24 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.360 We're asking students to understand that they are being taken seriously. 25 00:01:30.380 --> 00:01:34.640 And they are wanted in medical schools and in other professional schools. 26 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.900 What worries me is how real is this opening? 27 00:01:38.160 --> 00:01:39.100 Is it going to go on? 28 00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:41.000 Is it going to be a one and two year thing? 29 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:48.520 Will we be able to maintain a pressure at a high enough level, both from the black community and the white community, 30 00:01:48.620 --> 00:01:54.180 to keep insisting that we need more black people in the professions and more particularly in medicine? 31 00:01:55.220 --> 00:02:00.560 The needs of having black people who can communicate with sick black people in the ghetto. 32 00:02:01.380 --> 00:02:08.900 We need it terribly and we've got to make sure that the medical schools recognize how much they owe the black community 33 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:12.120 to provide them with the opportunity to be in a medical school. 34 00:02:12.440 --> 00:02:18.580 What is it that really people need throughout the entire world, but for somebody to deal with four or five primary things? 35 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.520 The elimination of hunger, poverty, disease and ignorance. 36 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:28.300 Those are manmade. Those are social diseases, you see, which any institution could be about the business of dealing with. 37 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:33.260 Particularly if it talks about affirming the health of any given community or society. 38 00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:38.420 So the doctors can't just say that, you know, I'm a doctor and so I'm not a politician. 39 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.440 Hell, he's got to be a doctor, a politician, everything else. 40 00:02:41.460 --> 00:02:48.780 He's got to be able to be a social force trying to bring about social change in a society which goes through a whole lot of socialization 41 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:50.880 to maintain the status quo. 42 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:52.720 And that's good health. 43 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:55.300 That enough? 44 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:06.160 We've got to show him also that there's a need in these health professions for this individual. 45 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:13.580 I think one of the things that we sort of miss out is all individuals, those that are here and those that are not here, 46 00:03:14.020 --> 00:03:16.600 have felt sometime in their life that they wanted to do something. 47 00:03:16.600 --> 00:03:23.660 Well, here in medicine there's no doubt that a black student who graduates from a medical or dental school can do something. 48 00:03:23.980 --> 00:03:24.840 Let me look at your eyes. 49 00:03:31.020 --> 00:03:32.480 You have such pretty eyes, you know. 50 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:37.240 Your mouth. 51 00:03:39.500 --> 00:03:40.120 Missing something? 52 00:03:40.940 --> 00:03:41.540 What are you missing? 53 00:03:43.020 --> 00:03:43.500 Teeth. 54 00:03:44.260 --> 00:03:45.620 Okay, Victoria. 55 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.780 We have two programs designed here at the University, in medicine and dentistry, 56 00:03:52.340 --> 00:03:59.080 to see if we can find the potential good black mind, bring him in and reinforce it. 57 00:03:59.280 --> 00:03:59.900 Where's your last name? 58 00:04:01.700 --> 00:04:02.420 McClain. 59 00:04:02.860 --> 00:04:03.480 McClain? 60 00:04:09.160 --> 00:04:10.340 Where do you live? 61 00:04:12.460 --> 00:04:13.260 1542. 62 00:04:14.140 --> 00:04:15.040 20, 15? 63 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:17.100 14. 64 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:17.980 14? 65 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:24.980 Northwest? 66 00:04:26.340 --> 00:04:27.060 What school are you in? 67 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:29.740 Kindergarten, me too. 68 00:04:30.340 --> 00:04:31.120 What grade are you in? 69 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:34.540 I'm in her kindergarten. 70 00:04:34.780 --> 00:04:35.840 What school are you in? 71 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:36.600 First? 72 00:04:41.340 --> 00:04:42.780 Is that your mother? 73 00:04:44.980 --> 00:04:45.340 Thank you. 74 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:49.940 This is McClain, I'm Dr. Davis. 75 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.800 We're getting some information concerning Victoria. 76 00:05:00.640 --> 00:05:02.040 How old is Victoria? 77 00:05:02.140 --> 00:05:02.900 Five. 78 00:05:02.900 --> 00:05:03.900 Five or six. 79 00:05:05.340 --> 00:05:06.300 Is she... 80 00:05:06.300 --> 00:05:07.860 Was there any problems with her? 81 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:12.640 Any difficulty when she was born? 82 00:05:12.640 --> 00:05:13.760 No difficulty at all. 83 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.720 How about the mumps and the German measles vaccine? 84 00:05:18.080 --> 00:05:18.760 Yes, she had those. 85 00:05:19.860 --> 00:05:21.760 Okay, I want you to lie down, okay? 86 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:26.520 I'm not scared of doctors, are I? 87 00:05:26.520 --> 00:05:26.680 Hmm? 88 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:31.540 Go to your school. 89 00:05:32.620 --> 00:05:33.780 What is the name of your school? 90 00:05:35.340 --> 00:05:35.840 Westerl. 91 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:37.000 Westerl? 92 00:05:38.260 --> 00:05:40.040 What grade are you in this school? 93 00:05:41.640 --> 00:05:42.960 I'm in her kindergarten. 94 00:05:43.060 --> 00:05:43.560 Kindergarten. 95 00:05:43.620 --> 00:05:44.580 You like your school? 96 00:05:45.200 --> 00:05:45.600 Yes. 97 00:05:45.900 --> 00:05:47.120 You have a lot of friends there? 98 00:05:47.620 --> 00:05:48.120 Yes. 99 00:05:49.660 --> 00:05:51.160 How many brothers you have? 100 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:53.320 Four. 101 00:05:54.820 --> 00:05:55.300 And sisters? 102 00:05:58.020 --> 00:05:58.020 103 00:05:58.020 --> 00:05:59.160 Are they older or younger? 104 00:05:59.960 --> 00:06:01.260 Who's the baby in the house? 105 00:06:01.960 --> 00:06:02.540 China. 106 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:03.740 We have a baby. 107 00:06:04.220 --> 00:06:05.100 Here, watch. 108 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:07.360 John? 109 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:10.320 Okay. 110 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:13.380 That's a good girl. 111 00:06:14.200 --> 00:06:17.480 I think basically what we're saying when we talk about recruiting 112 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.320 is to get more blacks into the health profession. 113 00:06:20.320 --> 00:06:20.800 Period. 114 00:06:22.280 --> 00:06:22.980 All methods. 115 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:28.240 Although it's certainly going to be a big problem, but all schools, 116 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:29.600 not only Howard and Meharry. 117 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:31.800 Go over here. Keep looking at the finger. 118 00:06:32.960 --> 00:06:34.840 Yeah, very cooperative, very good girl. 119 00:06:35.780 --> 00:06:37.060 You know you're a very good girl? 120 00:06:37.940 --> 00:06:38.900 Who told you that? 121 00:06:40.100 --> 00:06:40.920 Your mommy. 122 00:06:40.940 --> 00:06:42.700 Your mommy? And how about your school teacher? 123 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:43.460 What does she think? 124 00:06:45.520 --> 00:06:46.300 Very good. 125 00:06:46.940 --> 00:06:49.100 She said she lost her years when she grows up. 126 00:06:49.100 --> 00:06:50.260 Why don't you change her mind? 127 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:51.460 She wants to be a mom. 128 00:06:53.440 --> 00:06:54.900 You can be a boy, right? 129 00:06:55.100 --> 00:06:55.440 Right. 130 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:02.580 We have the burden on us of showing these other 95 schools 131 00:07:02.580 --> 00:07:04.200 how to recruit black students. 132 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:06.460 And not just go out and get them and let them flunk out 133 00:07:06.460 --> 00:07:07.960 and say that we brought them here, 134 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:09.720 but teach them how to keep them in, 135 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:11.200 how to motivate these students. 136 00:07:11.260 --> 00:07:13.260 And I think we are moving towards the end 137 00:07:13.260 --> 00:07:15.800 of establishing workshops, teaching methods 138 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.900 for other white schools, telling them how to bring in black professionals 139 00:07:18.900 --> 00:07:20.000 and how to keep them as such. 140 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:23.680 So they recruit them and then we try to measure, test, 141 00:07:23.860 --> 00:07:25.900 find the potential, bring the students in, 142 00:07:26.140 --> 00:07:27.200 reinforce them, 143 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:29.080 realizing that they have some weaknesses, 144 00:07:29.300 --> 00:07:31.460 but also realizing that four years hence 145 00:07:31.460 --> 00:07:33.400 when we graduate them, they will be as fine 146 00:07:33.400 --> 00:07:34.800 a physician, a dentist as any. 147 00:07:35.060 --> 00:07:37.520 I think one of the problems with recruitment is that 148 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:40.180 I can't emphasize enough that blacks, 149 00:07:40.880 --> 00:07:42.500 young blacks, have to see 150 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:42.900 black professionals. 151 00:07:43.760 --> 00:07:46.060 And in many neighborhoods that you go into 152 00:07:46.060 --> 00:07:47.500 in which there's a significant 153 00:07:47.500 --> 00:07:49.520 black population, there are no black professionals. 154 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.180 So when you talk about recruiting 155 00:07:51.180 --> 00:07:53.420 and talking about taking someone from that neighborhood 156 00:07:53.420 --> 00:07:55.660 and making a black professional out of 157 00:07:55.660 --> 00:07:57.640 this particular person, he doesn't know 158 00:07:57.640 --> 00:07:59.800 or she doesn't know what you're talking about. 159 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:01.500 The only thing that they've seen 160 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:02.860 thus far are white professionals. 161 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.040 Most of the hospitals that you go to 162 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.820 in this country today have no black physicians 163 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:09.940 as interns or residents. 164 00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:11.560 And those few 165 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.500 that are accepting black 166 00:08:14.940 --> 00:08:15.460 interns 167 00:08:15.460 --> 00:08:17.440 now are in such short number 168 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:19.580 simply because there's not enough blacks to go around. 169 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:21.400 Everybody wants their little black intern 170 00:08:21.400 --> 00:08:23.540 because of a number of reasons. 171 00:08:23.980 --> 00:08:25.700 But we've got to show these kids 172 00:08:25.700 --> 00:08:27.800 that there are such a thing as a black professional. 173 00:08:27.900 --> 00:08:29.420 And this is I think one of the big hang ups 174 00:08:29.420 --> 00:08:31.440 in recruitment, where are the black professionals? 175 00:08:31.940 --> 00:08:33.520 And I think the students should 176 00:08:33.520 --> 00:08:35.440 find them and talk to them like the other day. 177 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.580 The hospital admission of this 178 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:39.400 59 year old negro male 179 00:08:39.400 --> 00:08:41.600 who was presented with chief complaint 180 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.080 of abdominal pain, nausea, 181 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.740 vomiting, leachness, hemodemesis, 182 00:08:47.040 --> 00:08:48.760 swelling of the legs and hands 183 00:08:48.760 --> 00:08:50.040 and necrotic eyes. 184 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:52.300 He admires to drinking approximately 185 00:08:52.300 --> 00:08:54.260 one kind of alcohol daily 186 00:08:54.260 --> 00:08:55.860 and smokes approximately 187 00:08:55.860 --> 00:08:57.640 a pack of cigarettes every day. 188 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:00.080 This has been on the period of many years. 189 00:09:04.460 --> 00:09:06.960 How long have you been drinking heavily? 190 00:09:07.520 --> 00:09:08.380 Every day? 191 00:09:09.400 --> 00:09:09.400 192 00:09:14.380 --> 00:09:16.100 What do you mean by heavily? 193 00:09:16.780 --> 00:09:17.600 I mean, I mean 194 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:19.720 I first came out of the army. 195 00:09:21.520 --> 00:09:21.960 I've been drinking. 196 00:09:22.040 --> 00:09:23.780 That's when you started. How old are you now? 197 00:09:24.620 --> 00:09:26.400 69. When did you come out of the army? 198 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:28.080 I came out in 45. 199 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:30.520 In 44 years you've been drinking heavily. 200 00:09:30.800 --> 00:09:31.460 I've been drinking. 201 00:09:31.860 --> 00:09:33.160 And what's the quantity of it? 202 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.760 Here before the black professional has not been something that a lot of us now 203 00:09:36.760 --> 00:09:38.560 would be particularly proud of 204 00:09:38.560 --> 00:09:40.720 in terms of where his set of values is. 205 00:09:41.180 --> 00:09:41.800 I think 206 00:09:41.800 --> 00:09:43.320 over the past few years 207 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.360 and with the set of medical students, dental students that we're turning out now 208 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:47.520 it's a particular type of thought 209 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:49.520 who can go out and relate 210 00:09:49.520 --> 00:09:51.900 to the now young man in the street 211 00:09:51.900 --> 00:09:54.260 who possibly wouldn't want to be one of the 212 00:09:54.260 --> 00:09:56.100 Cadillac driving, slick-haired 213 00:09:56.100 --> 00:09:57.840 old positions of the past 214 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:59.440 and not provide any service. 215 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:01.960 And I think this is very important that when they 216 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:03.960 see young black professionals now, I think the image is 217 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:05.920 different. It's something more that they can identify with 218 00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:07.560 both in terms of not only appearance 219 00:10:07.560 --> 00:10:09.940 but in terms of aspirations, goals 220 00:10:09.940 --> 00:10:12.100 and desires. And I think we must instill this 221 00:10:12.100 --> 00:10:13.440 in our own students that we have now. 222 00:10:13.660 --> 00:10:16.280 And when we bring in a young black student now, don't let him turn. 223 00:10:16.700 --> 00:10:18.060 Don't let him get all 224 00:10:18.060 --> 00:10:19.980 money crazy because our people don't have money. 225 00:10:20.020 --> 00:10:21.860 We have to deal with other systems than just money. 226 00:10:21.920 --> 00:10:23.380 Maybe goods and services or something. 227 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:26.100 I think this is very significant about what we do with our students. 228 00:10:27.400 --> 00:10:28.160 Well, there's 229 00:10:28.160 --> 00:10:30.000 a phony atmosphere of tension that 230 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.480 surrounds the health profession. 231 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:34.020 It's supposed to be so 232 00:10:34.020 --> 00:10:36.160 difficult and some schools 233 00:10:36.160 --> 00:10:38.900 make it very difficult. But I think that 234 00:10:38.900 --> 00:10:41.120 for the high school students who will be 235 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:42.940 seeing this film, that they ought to 236 00:10:42.940 --> 00:10:45.060 speak personally with black 237 00:10:45.060 --> 00:10:46.920 medical students and find 238 00:10:46.920 --> 00:10:48.480 out exactly what it's like. 239 00:10:48.860 --> 00:10:51.020 And I think that many of them would 240 00:10:51.020 --> 00:10:52.760 benefit from 241 00:10:52.760 --> 00:10:54.920 conversations with people who 242 00:10:54.920 --> 00:10:56.980 have actually lived with the situation 243 00:10:56.980 --> 00:10:58.640 and know what it's all about 244 00:10:58.640 --> 00:11:00.880 because there's no reason 245 00:11:00.880 --> 00:11:02.700 why a black student 246 00:11:02.700 --> 00:11:04.940 should be refused 247 00:11:04.940 --> 00:11:06.860 admission to a medical school 248 00:11:06.860 --> 00:11:08.880 or dental school simply because he 249 00:11:08.880 --> 00:11:10.900 did not perform well on an 250 00:11:10.900 --> 00:11:12.960 aptitude test which included questions 251 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:14.900 on Broadway and plays 252 00:11:14.900 --> 00:11:17.360 written by Joe Jalofsky. 253 00:11:17.940 --> 00:11:19.180 That just doesn't happen 254 00:11:19.180 --> 00:11:20.940 to be us. And so we fall 255 00:11:20.940 --> 00:11:22.920 down on the aptitude test, the medical 256 00:11:22.920 --> 00:11:25.120 aptitude test where they ask 257 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.020 the question the year I took it, 258 00:11:27.380 --> 00:11:28.840 what was the latest play 259 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:30.940 on Broadway? Well, I don't know. Ask me something 260 00:11:30.940 --> 00:11:33.160 about James Brown or Reatha Franklin. 261 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:34.720 You know, and then I know what's happening. 262 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.080 And if I don't know that, then I'm not anywhere. 263 00:11:37.280 --> 00:11:38.420 I'm neither black nor white. 264 00:11:38.520 --> 00:11:40.860 One of the things that has kept 265 00:11:40.860 --> 00:11:42.680 black people out of dentistry 266 00:11:42.680 --> 00:11:44.260 here to pour 267 00:11:45.100 --> 00:11:46.780 beside financial consideration 268 00:11:46.780 --> 00:11:48.660 has been the fact that we have imposed 269 00:11:48.660 --> 00:11:50.720 between our people and professional 270 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:52.820 schools what we consider 271 00:11:52.820 --> 00:11:54.900 invalid tests of ability 272 00:11:54.900 --> 00:11:56.700 and these being the standardized tests 273 00:11:56.700 --> 00:11:58.620 that are administered in the form of the 274 00:11:58.620 --> 00:12:00.940 medical college admissions test and the dental aptitude 275 00:12:00.940 --> 00:12:03.000 test. So going on this premise 276 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.400 that black people cannot be 277 00:12:05.400 --> 00:12:07.420 measured in terms of capability and ability 278 00:12:07.420 --> 00:12:08.640 by these tests. 279 00:12:09.220 --> 00:12:11.320 We selected some 21 280 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:12.600 black students 281 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:15.220 who had not fared so well on 282 00:12:15.220 --> 00:12:17.040 this test and admitted them 283 00:12:17.040 --> 00:12:18.200 into the college of dentistry. 284 00:12:19.100 --> 00:12:21.120 We thought also that it 285 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:23.400 might be well to 286 00:12:23.400 --> 00:12:24.220 take students 287 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.380 and to give them what we call 288 00:12:27.380 --> 00:12:29.320 what would be called academic reinforcement 289 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.140 in which they would be exposed 290 00:12:31.140 --> 00:12:33.260 to several areas back at the mission. 291 00:12:33.780 --> 00:12:35.520 And our rate of success I think we are 292 00:12:35.520 --> 00:12:36.580 all particularly pleased with. 293 00:12:37.540 --> 00:12:39.120 If this comes out statistically 294 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.100 like it has so far 295 00:12:41.100 --> 00:12:43.320 at the end of the year, I think the program can be expanded 296 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.060 and we will have a model 297 00:12:45.060 --> 00:12:47.240 that can serve as something that we hope to 298 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:49.080 project nationwide and put black 299 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.340 people in school and stop hanging them up with all these 300 00:12:51.340 --> 00:12:52.980 little tests that don't mean anything 301 00:12:52.980 --> 00:12:54.980 about their capabilities. I think 302 00:12:54.980 --> 00:12:57.080 when you talk to some of these students you can see that 303 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:59.440 they'll turn out to be some of the best professionals you've ever seen. 304 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:01.300 I was teaching 305 00:13:01.300 --> 00:13:02.380 at first. 306 00:13:03.300 --> 00:13:05.420 And it's not what I wanted 307 00:13:05.420 --> 00:13:06.680 at all, teaching. 308 00:13:07.380 --> 00:13:09.640 I wanted to go into some medical profession 309 00:13:09.640 --> 00:13:11.440 but my score wasn't 310 00:13:12.260 --> 00:13:13.500 high enough on 311 00:13:13.500 --> 00:13:15.780 the national exams. 312 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:17.440 I don't know what 313 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.440 to attribute this to. It might have been my 314 00:13:21.140 --> 00:13:22.720 well, my fault. 315 00:13:23.040 --> 00:13:25.440 But I don't think it was. I 316 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.260 considered myself a pretty good student. 317 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.640 I just don't see what it was 318 00:13:29.640 --> 00:13:31.360 because it's when I compare myself 319 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.440 with some of the students here already 320 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.680 now, I know that 321 00:13:35.680 --> 00:13:37.760 I'm just as good and in some 322 00:13:37.760 --> 00:13:39.260 particular instance it's better. 323 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:40.680 I know this. 324 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.280 I think I took the exam five times. 325 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:45.480 And each 326 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.360 time it didn't get any better. I was really getting 327 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.200 to the point where I was getting disgusted. 328 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:51.900 And then some of the academic reinforcement programs came along. 329 00:13:52.380 --> 00:13:53.700 I even said to myself 330 00:13:53.700 --> 00:13:55.320 when I ended the program that I wouldn't do 331 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.340 any better on exams. But that 332 00:13:57.340 --> 00:13:58.720 proved to be false also. 333 00:13:59.860 --> 00:14:01.120 The academic reinforcement 334 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.380 you passed exams? Yes. 335 00:14:04.180 --> 00:14:05.220 And I 336 00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:07.480 had at least five times more than that. 337 00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:08.820 If a student 338 00:14:08.820 --> 00:14:11.740 right now wants to go to medical school 339 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:13.560 does not 340 00:14:13.560 --> 00:14:14.660 have to be a genius. 341 00:14:15.640 --> 00:14:16.960 He does not have to have 342 00:14:17.780 --> 00:14:18.900 let's say 343 00:14:19.900 --> 00:14:21.440 well, if he's willing to 344 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:23.320 work hard, if he's got average 345 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:25.100 intelligence, he can make it. 346 00:14:25.580 --> 00:14:27.320 But what he needs really is a certain 347 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:29.440 amount of information as to where are the doors. 348 00:14:29.980 --> 00:14:31.380 It's one thing to open a 349 00:14:31.380 --> 00:14:33.460 door by turning a knob. It's another to knock 350 00:14:33.460 --> 00:14:35.340 a door down to get through. But you've got to know 351 00:14:35.340 --> 00:14:37.480 where the door is before you can get the darn thing. 352 00:14:37.880 --> 00:14:39.520 Well I said yes, I want to go to college. 353 00:14:39.620 --> 00:14:40.480 I want to be a doctor. 354 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.220 The teacher looked at me and said well aren't you 355 00:14:43.220 --> 00:14:45.200 in the wrong field? Don't you have 356 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.260 something else in mind? Can't you be a teacher 357 00:14:47.260 --> 00:14:49.380 or a gym, anything, but 358 00:14:49.380 --> 00:14:51.200 a doctor. Black people have been 359 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.200 pushed away 360 00:14:53.800 --> 00:14:55.520 from the profession by high school 361 00:14:55.520 --> 00:14:57.520 counselors. In fact, last 362 00:14:57.520 --> 00:14:57.920 year 363 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.640 we spoke with some students who had 364 00:15:01.640 --> 00:15:03.240 considered going into medicine 365 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.200 and they finally came into college. 366 00:15:05.660 --> 00:15:07.200 And they were told that 367 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.380 it was too difficult to get through the pre-medical 368 00:15:10.380 --> 00:15:11.600 curriculum in college 369 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:13.520 so that they could forget about 370 00:15:13.520 --> 00:15:15.600 medicine. I'm sure much of it is 371 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.640 well-meant counseling. 372 00:15:18.660 --> 00:15:19.500 The people who tell 373 00:15:19.500 --> 00:15:21.600 this are sincere that you don't have 374 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:23.680 a chance, face reality, take another 375 00:15:23.680 --> 00:15:25.420 career. But it's simply not true. 376 00:15:26.020 --> 00:15:27.680 And this is where the education has 377 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:29.600 to go all the way back down the line. 378 00:15:30.260 --> 00:15:31.880 That in fact the black student 379 00:15:31.880 --> 00:15:33.460 can get into medical school. 380 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:35.700 That in fact there is no 381 00:15:35.700 --> 00:15:37.580 reason for him not to pursue that 382 00:15:37.580 --> 00:15:38.080 career. 383 00:15:39.980 --> 00:15:41.660 The exact logistics of 384 00:15:41.660 --> 00:15:43.760 how to do it may not be available 385 00:15:43.760 --> 00:15:45.640 to him. And this is where they need an 386 00:15:45.640 --> 00:15:47.680 avenue to find it out. It's been my 387 00:15:47.680 --> 00:15:49.660 opinion most of the time. 388 00:15:49.740 --> 00:15:51.980 Most medical schools felt that the burden 389 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:53.760 of the information was 390 00:15:53.760 --> 00:15:56.680 up to the applicant to seek out. And 391 00:15:56.680 --> 00:15:57.900 most of the time 392 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:00.400 all the schools 393 00:16:00.400 --> 00:16:02.000 that I've ever received any 394 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.720 information from, I've had to write 395 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:05.540 and request information from that school. 396 00:16:06.980 --> 00:16:07.980 And the initial 397 00:16:07.980 --> 00:16:09.960 information that you 398 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:11.660 may receive comes from a counselor 399 00:16:11.660 --> 00:16:13.800 or a professor would you 400 00:16:13.800 --> 00:16:14.980 admire or 401 00:16:14.980 --> 00:16:16.980 or even a guy that 402 00:16:17.640 --> 00:16:18.980 that you might have met in school 403 00:16:18.980 --> 00:16:21.160 who applied to a medical school 404 00:16:21.160 --> 00:16:22.900 the year before, it's 405 00:16:22.900 --> 00:16:24.960 word of mouth. We receive 406 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.140 any active recruitment from any medical 407 00:16:27.140 --> 00:16:29.080 school in the country when I was 408 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:31.280 an undergraduate. 409 00:16:31.860 --> 00:16:32.860 What do you do when 410 00:16:32.860 --> 00:16:34.940 you got information that you don't like? 411 00:16:35.140 --> 00:16:37.100 For example if somebody says, look face 412 00:16:37.100 --> 00:16:39.100 up to it, it's impossible to get 413 00:16:39.100 --> 00:16:40.820 into competition drop and all that 414 00:16:40.820 --> 00:16:43.380 overblowning. And why don't you just face 415 00:16:43.380 --> 00:16:45.140 reality and take another career? 416 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:47.020 This really happened to me. 417 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:48.980 How did you know the best card? 418 00:16:49.620 --> 00:16:50.100 Well, 419 00:16:51.460 --> 00:16:53.580 I hate to say this but I just 420 00:16:53.580 --> 00:16:54.460 considered it a source. 421 00:16:54.900 --> 00:16:56.300 What are you here for today? 422 00:16:58.700 --> 00:16:59.180 For 423 00:16:59.180 --> 00:17:01.100 high blood pressure. High blood pressure? 424 00:17:01.420 --> 00:17:02.780 Yeah. Okay. 425 00:17:03.660 --> 00:17:04.580 Have you been taking anything 426 00:17:05.180 --> 00:17:06.800 for your blood pressure? Yeah. 427 00:17:07.520 --> 00:17:09.200 Have you felt better since you've been taking it? 428 00:17:09.700 --> 00:17:10.900 You haven't felt any better? 429 00:17:12.140 --> 00:17:12.500 No. 430 00:17:12.500 --> 00:17:13.720 Do you still take the medicine? Yeah. 431 00:17:14.540 --> 00:17:16.660 Now, have you ever tried not taking the medicine? 432 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:18.900 Yeah. And when you don't take it, do you have 433 00:17:18.900 --> 00:17:20.920 dizziness and glomerulism? That's why I know it's 434 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:22.660 the medicine. That's why you know it's the medicine? 435 00:17:22.780 --> 00:17:24.900 Mm-hmm. Did you take your medicine 436 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:26.140 today? No. 437 00:17:27.080 --> 00:17:28.700 You didn't take it today? Did you take it 438 00:17:28.700 --> 00:17:30.660 yesterday? Mm-hmm. You didn't take it yesterday? 439 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:32.900 Did you take it the day before? Yes. 440 00:17:33.140 --> 00:17:34.460 When's the last time you've taken your medicine? 441 00:17:35.360 --> 00:17:37.000 I didn't take it this week at all. 442 00:17:37.220 --> 00:17:39.160 You didn't take it this week at all? What about last week? 443 00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:42.180 I've taken it once last week. 444 00:17:42.340 --> 00:17:43.320 Once last week? 445 00:17:46.740 --> 00:17:47.340 Then? 446 00:17:49.820 --> 00:17:51.140 No wonder you're sick. 447 00:18:01.520 --> 00:18:03.440 You're going to start taking your medicine again. 448 00:18:04.900 --> 00:18:05.500 Huh? 449 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:06.400 Mm-hmm. 450 00:18:09.220 --> 00:18:11.460 We're going to give you some different medicine, but 451 00:18:11.460 --> 00:18:13.940 you're going to have to start taking your medicine again. 452 00:18:14.600 --> 00:18:15.560 Before the pressure's too high. 453 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:16.940 It's too what? 454 00:18:17.120 --> 00:18:18.360 It's too high. Oh. 455 00:18:22.900 --> 00:18:24.340 That's higher than it's ever been. 456 00:18:25.600 --> 00:18:26.600 When they gave you that medication, 457 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:27.640 I'm talking to you very soon. 458 00:18:27.660 --> 00:18:28.960 When they gave you that medication, 459 00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:30.700 they gave it for you to take. 460 00:18:31.020 --> 00:18:32.720 You've got to take it. 461 00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:34.520 Don't ever stop taking it. 462 00:18:34.520 --> 00:18:37.220 So I want to be a doctor, not because there's a 463 00:18:37.220 --> 00:18:39.020 demand for black doctors, 464 00:18:39.060 --> 00:18:41.140 but it's a field that I was interested in. 465 00:18:41.780 --> 00:18:43.260 And I will always be 466 00:18:43.260 --> 00:18:44.760 interested in medicine no matter what. 467 00:18:44.800 --> 00:18:47.220 And I don't feel as if anybody has to guide me 468 00:18:47.220 --> 00:18:49.340 that way. I don't feel as if I'm going to be 469 00:18:49.340 --> 00:18:50.800 stopped. I'm going to be a black 470 00:18:50.800 --> 00:18:52.260 doctor no matter what. 471 00:18:52.700 --> 00:18:54.980 And that's the way I feel all students should feel today. 472 00:18:55.360 --> 00:18:57.180 That nobody's going to be in their way if they 473 00:18:57.180 --> 00:18:59.120 really want to do anything. If anyone 474 00:18:59.120 --> 00:19:01.040 wants to accomplish anything, they'll do it. 475 00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:03.560 And no guidance teacher or 476 00:19:03.560 --> 00:19:05.260 dean of admissions to any college 477 00:19:05.260 --> 00:19:07.000 can tell you what you're not going to do. 478 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:09.200 I came from a family 479 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:11.320 who could not financially afford to see 480 00:19:11.320 --> 00:19:13.180 you, and the counselor couldn't tell you anywhere 481 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:14.720 the rights of money 482 00:19:15.260 --> 00:19:17.300 or anything like that. And the only outlook 483 00:19:17.300 --> 00:19:19.360 was that, alright, if you were an 484 00:19:19.360 --> 00:19:21.320 age student, sure you may have got a few scholarships, 485 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.580 but how many age students are in a class? 486 00:19:23.660 --> 00:19:24.800 You may have one or two. 487 00:19:25.100 --> 00:19:27.400 So if you're an average student sitting down in the middle 488 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:29.360 of the group, you have no advice from 489 00:19:29.360 --> 00:19:31.280 anybody to tell you anything. 490 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:33.460 You just have to have a determination 491 00:19:33.460 --> 00:19:35.020 to do something. And so like I did, I'd say, well, 492 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:37.200 if I can't get any money from anywhere, 493 00:19:37.700 --> 00:19:39.240 I'll just work in the summer 494 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:41.540 and try to make enough money to pay tuition. 495 00:19:41.860 --> 00:19:44.000 And I get there, I'll try to get me a job 496 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:44.960 up on the campus. 497 00:19:45.500 --> 00:19:47.340 Some way I worked as a secretary for 498 00:19:47.340 --> 00:19:49.700 different professors and things like that. 499 00:19:50.320 --> 00:19:51.620 No one had told me 500 00:19:51.620 --> 00:19:53.420 anything about, you know, you can write off 501 00:19:53.420 --> 00:19:55.360 and get money through different places. 502 00:19:55.760 --> 00:19:57.580 So don't let that be a hang up 503 00:19:57.580 --> 00:19:59.420 about that finance. If you 504 00:19:59.420 --> 00:20:01.140 want to go, you go. 505 00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:03.380 When you get there, you face those other bridges 506 00:20:03.380 --> 00:20:05.340 when you get there. You try to get you enough money 507 00:20:05.340 --> 00:20:07.520 in the summertime to try to get that tuition. 508 00:20:07.620 --> 00:20:09.460 If you ever get there and get in 509 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:11.540 and if you really want to be there, 510 00:20:11.540 --> 00:20:13.340 you won't stay. You have to worry about that. 511 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:15.040 If you have to go to some professor showing 512 00:20:15.040 --> 00:20:17.820 and crying and say, Lord, you just got to give me this job. 513 00:20:18.260 --> 00:20:19.500 Let me type a couple of letters 514 00:20:19.500 --> 00:20:21.140 for you or something, you know. 515 00:20:21.660 --> 00:20:22.940 Don't let that be a hang up. 516 00:20:23.040 --> 00:20:25.220 And if your counselor isn't any of you see 517 00:20:25.800 --> 00:20:27.200 you, that, you know, don't 518 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:29.280 let that get you over. You try 519 00:20:29.280 --> 00:20:31.500 to get there. Number one, get tight. 520 00:20:31.580 --> 00:20:33.700 And by tight, I mean academically tight. 521 00:20:34.020 --> 00:20:35.440 I mean, our people have often 522 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:37.320 been subjected to half-baked 523 00:20:37.320 --> 00:20:39.520 treatment out of people who socialize 524 00:20:39.520 --> 00:20:40.880 through a professional school or something. 525 00:20:41.300 --> 00:20:43.540 We're not here saying that we don't want 526 00:20:43.540 --> 00:20:45.460 you to learn medicine. We don't want 527 00:20:45.460 --> 00:20:47.400 you to learn science. Academics are not 528 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:49.360 important because they are. 529 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:51.640 But we think that you must have considerable 530 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:53.340 expertise to practice on 531 00:20:53.340 --> 00:20:55.300 our people. But what we are saying 532 00:20:55.300 --> 00:20:59.260 that when you decide that you 533 00:20:59.260 --> 00:21:01.940 take it with a dedication and we're here to help you 534 00:21:01.940 --> 00:21:03.380 and we're here to point out those points 535 00:21:03.380 --> 00:21:05.760 that will help our people. But don't 536 00:21:05.760 --> 00:21:08.260 by any stretch of the imagination 537 00:21:08.260 --> 00:21:10.200 take it. We're saying come to medical school 538 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:12.120 if you've got commitment, if you've got concern 539 00:21:12.120 --> 00:21:14.120 that's always required. You have to develop 540 00:21:14.120 --> 00:21:15.720 your mind and that's very important. 541 00:21:17.340 --> 00:21:17.780 All right, now, 542 00:21:18.060 --> 00:21:18.780 deep breath. 543 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:21.720 All right. 544 00:21:22.140 --> 00:21:23.500 All right. All right. All right. 545 00:21:23.500 --> 00:21:25.440 Keep it on. All right. 546 00:21:27.760 --> 00:21:28.400 All right. 547 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:28.420 All right. 548 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:33.840 There's so many outlets that you can have 549 00:21:33.840 --> 00:21:35.280 for medicine. You can be anything 550 00:21:35.280 --> 00:21:37.840 from a technician to one of the best surgeons 551 00:21:37.840 --> 00:21:39.600 to a heart specialist, anything. 552 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:41.980 Things like x-ray technology. 553 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:44.360 Technicians who work on 554 00:21:44.360 --> 00:21:46.160 blood chemistry, histology, 555 00:21:46.280 --> 00:21:46.860 pathology. 556 00:21:47.360 --> 00:21:49.300 There's all sorts of fields to open. 557 00:21:50.540 --> 00:21:52.080 We're going to need 558 00:21:52.080 --> 00:21:53.740 someone just to read our computers 559 00:21:53.740 --> 00:21:55.680 in the future as far as our 560 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:57.160 diagnostic computers are. 561 00:21:57.980 --> 00:21:59.320 There's going to be a time 562 00:21:59.320 --> 00:22:01.560 when we're going to feed information 563 00:22:01.560 --> 00:22:03.940 into machines that we've 564 00:22:03.940 --> 00:22:04.700 gathered from patients. 565 00:22:08.180 --> 00:22:10.100 The instruments that you see 566 00:22:10.100 --> 00:22:11.160 in here are 567 00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:13.540 the 568 00:22:13.540 --> 00:22:15.360 all of the instruments that one would 569 00:22:15.360 --> 00:22:16.480 use in a hospital 570 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:19.560 if he was going to follow 571 00:22:19.560 --> 00:22:21.400 a sick patient, 572 00:22:21.980 --> 00:22:23.440 let's say one that had a heart 573 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:24.120 attack. 574 00:22:24.900 --> 00:22:26.680 Likewise, it's the kind 575 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:28.500 of instrumentation that 576 00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:30.440 is used right 577 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:32.080 now to follow 578 00:22:32.080 --> 00:22:34.360 what the heart is 579 00:22:34.360 --> 00:22:36.360 doing of the 580 00:22:36.360 --> 00:22:37.780 astronauts which are on the moon. 581 00:22:38.520 --> 00:22:40.500 Here we have a live 582 00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:41.280 animal 583 00:22:42.120 --> 00:22:43.880 which has about a week 584 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:46.420 after he's had heart 585 00:22:46.420 --> 00:22:47.540 surgery where 586 00:22:48.120 --> 00:22:50.200 we've gone in, opened up his heart, 587 00:22:50.580 --> 00:22:52.220 put different things on it so he 588 00:22:52.220 --> 00:22:54.440 can follow how the heart works. 589 00:22:56.360 --> 00:22:58.240 All of this is just 590 00:22:58.240 --> 00:22:59.520 from one heartbeat. 591 00:23:01.760 --> 00:23:04.160 All that information we get from 592 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:05.600 one single heartbeat. 593 00:23:06.460 --> 00:23:07.880 So you can see that 594 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:10.160 there's a tremendous amount of information 595 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:12.060 that comes out of studying 596 00:23:12.060 --> 00:23:14.240 the heart which you can only 597 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:15.960 get by using 598 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:16.760 a computer. 599 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:20.360 It's a standard heart operation that 600 00:23:20.360 --> 00:23:22.180 has an absolute 601 00:23:22.180 --> 00:23:24.660 prognosis almost, 100 percent 602 00:23:24.660 --> 00:23:26.580 for repairing a 603 00:23:26.580 --> 00:23:28.440 defect that's a congenital defect. 604 00:23:29.940 --> 00:23:30.220 There are 605 00:23:30.220 --> 00:23:32.500 about 126 medical 606 00:23:32.500 --> 00:23:34.700 people that come in 607 00:23:34.700 --> 00:23:35.940 contact with that patient. 608 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:38.220 This total procedure from the entrance 609 00:23:38.220 --> 00:23:40.340 to the front door of the hospital going through the 610 00:23:40.340 --> 00:23:42.120 clinic, the diagnostic workup, 611 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:43.720 the surgery, the rehabilitation. 612 00:23:44.340 --> 00:23:46.460 There are only six MDs required 613 00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:48.400 in that whole entourage. 614 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:50.620 Yet that procedure is impossible 615 00:23:50.620 --> 00:23:52.540 to carry out and rehabilitate the patient. 616 00:23:52.780 --> 00:23:54.500 This means, for example, there are laboratory 617 00:23:54.500 --> 00:23:56.200 technicians who do lab studies, 618 00:23:56.440 --> 00:23:58.580 x-ray technicians who do x-ray studies, 619 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:00.500 the operating room technicians, 620 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:01.900 the nurses involved, 621 00:24:02.760 --> 00:24:04.460 the people who monitor 622 00:24:04.460 --> 00:24:06.120 the sophisticated computer 623 00:24:06.120 --> 00:24:08.180 machines, the heart pump, 624 00:24:08.380 --> 00:24:09.960 the bypass operation, 625 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:12.580 then in the rehabilitation of the patient. 626 00:24:13.840 --> 00:24:14.780 There are a number of 627 00:24:14.780 --> 00:24:16.640 specialists in the physical 628 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:18.600 rehabilitation field involved there. 629 00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:21.080 But it's about 126 in that total team. 630 00:24:21.580 --> 00:24:22.940 Now there are certainly some students 631 00:24:23.540 --> 00:24:24.820 who would feel that they 632 00:24:24.820 --> 00:24:26.900 could go to medical technology school 633 00:24:26.900 --> 00:24:28.620 but might not feel that they could 634 00:24:28.620 --> 00:24:30.780 go through college and then into a professional 635 00:24:30.780 --> 00:24:32.660 school. And some of those who have even 636 00:24:32.660 --> 00:24:34.740 gone through college might feel for various reasons 637 00:24:34.740 --> 00:24:36.860 that they don't want really to 638 00:24:36.860 --> 00:24:38.660 become physicians, but that they 639 00:24:38.660 --> 00:24:40.360 would enjoy very much becoming 640 00:24:40.360 --> 00:24:42.520 extremely good technicians and running really 641 00:24:42.520 --> 00:24:43.700 first class laboratories. 642 00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:46.280 And I think 643 00:24:46.280 --> 00:24:48.100 this could be sold to them, particularly 644 00:24:48.100 --> 00:24:49.700 if they had a chance to come and see 645 00:24:50.360 --> 00:24:51.920 what goes on in a lab 646 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:54.240 and how it really contributes 647 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:55.820 to the care of the patient and so forth. 648 00:24:56.020 --> 00:24:57.980 Number one, when you speak of 649 00:24:57.980 --> 00:25:00.180 paramedical care, you also think of preventative 650 00:25:00.180 --> 00:25:01.680 medicine. And I think 651 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:03.920 if you've been in a hospital 652 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:06.220 or you've seen how a hospital works, the patient 653 00:25:06.220 --> 00:25:07.940 load, especially a charity hospital like 654 00:25:07.940 --> 00:25:09.920 we have here, or most hospitals 655 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:11.860 where black people go, the patient load is so 656 00:25:11.860 --> 00:25:13.820 tremendous that the patient can't 657 00:25:13.820 --> 00:25:15.980 receive adequate care. So if we had 658 00:25:15.980 --> 00:25:17.980 number one program of paramedicine 659 00:25:17.980 --> 00:25:19.800 wherein we could have community health centers 660 00:25:19.800 --> 00:25:22.120 where we could have primary health care out in the community. 661 00:25:22.420 --> 00:25:23.840 If we had preventative medicine that 662 00:25:23.840 --> 00:25:25.940 we taught, even at the level 663 00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:27.800 of youngsters in schools, then I think 664 00:25:27.800 --> 00:25:30.100 this would lessen the patient load at our hospitals 665 00:25:30.100 --> 00:25:31.960 and consequently we could provide our people 666 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:33.540 with even basic better care there. 667 00:25:34.060 --> 00:25:35.800 If people find out that disease 668 00:25:35.800 --> 00:25:38.140 is a serious problem for a country, 669 00:25:38.600 --> 00:25:40.720 then the people, if it's only 10% 670 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:42.860 of the population, or if it's only 1% 671 00:25:42.860 --> 00:25:44.640 of the population that has knowledge about health, 672 00:25:45.020 --> 00:25:46.900 they have more responsibility to make 673 00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:48.860 the language understandable and take 674 00:25:48.860 --> 00:25:50.840 the mystique out of medicine, which is 675 00:25:50.840 --> 00:25:52.900 the jargon, which is the language, and 676 00:25:52.900 --> 00:25:54.740 make that information available to everybody. 677 00:25:55.060 --> 00:25:56.800 So the little boy, 10 years old, can 678 00:25:56.800 --> 00:25:58.880 start to understand how to recognize communicable 679 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:00.860 diseases and how to move about 680 00:26:00.860 --> 00:26:02.940 dealing with certain kinds of preventative kinds of things. 681 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:05.220 What it means is you engage everybody, 682 00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:06.920 you see. No longer do you just look to 683 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:08.720 the talented tenth, you know, 684 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:10.680 but you start to work with people from every 685 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:12.780 strata, from every level, and you don't make 686 00:26:12.780 --> 00:26:14.600 class distinctions, but you recognize that 687 00:26:14.600 --> 00:26:16.800 information has got to be shared across the line 688 00:26:16.800 --> 00:26:18.980 so that the gap is closed 689 00:26:18.980 --> 00:26:20.840 by the sharing of information, data 690 00:26:20.840 --> 00:26:22.800 about one's life, so that when individuals 691 00:26:22.800 --> 00:26:24.500 can have the information, they don't have to call 692 00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:26.780 a committeeman, they don't have to call a politician, 693 00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:28.700 they don't have to call a doctor in paying 694 00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:30.840 10, 15, 20 dollars every time they think 695 00:26:30.840 --> 00:26:32.400 they've got a health problem, 696 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:34.480 but they can begin to start affirming each other. 697 00:26:34.580 --> 00:26:36.620 And blacks all over are now searching 698 00:26:36.620 --> 00:26:39.440 for that way of expression. 699 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:41.660 And in medicine you can do it. 700 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:42.900 You can do your thing in medicine. 701 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:44.540 Medicine you can really show, 702 00:26:44.940 --> 00:26:46.620 as they say, show your expertise, you can 703 00:26:46.620 --> 00:26:48.620 help people. You can show 704 00:26:48.620 --> 00:26:50.800 anybody, anywhere, that you're just as 705 00:26:50.800 --> 00:26:52.820 good as the next person, because here you practice 706 00:26:52.820 --> 00:26:54.480 an art. And 707 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:56.720 I think this is very 708 00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.120 important to blacks, that they be able to 709 00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:00.240 realize their potential. 710 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:02.760 Educating all the people of America 711 00:27:02.760 --> 00:27:04.840 to be, you know, to have the same 712 00:27:04.840 --> 00:27:07.180 maturation point, I'm pretty close to it, I have the option 713 00:27:07.180 --> 00:27:09.040 that's not impractical, you know, 714 00:27:09.040 --> 00:27:10.960 it's a very, at this point it's 715 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:12.480 a desire, it's a notion, 716 00:27:12.800 --> 00:27:14.180 you know, it's a high hope. 717 00:27:14.700 --> 00:27:16.900 It only becomes practical when people start doing that. 718 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:18.740 Where does it start? The first individual 719 00:27:18.740 --> 00:27:21.020 who recognizes the need and who starts moving that 720 00:27:21.020 --> 00:27:23.040 way, what does he do? He becomes the model 721 00:27:23.040 --> 00:27:24.860 for all the individuals. And 722 00:27:24.860 --> 00:27:26.740 that's what I'm all about, with regard 723 00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:28.320 to my work, the kind of stuff I do. 724 00:27:28.700 --> 00:27:30.880 It doesn't matter whether I'm working at Temple Community Mental Health 725 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:32.960 or University of Pennsylvania Children's Hospital, 726 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:35.200 or working for the Bulletin, scrubbing floors, 727 00:27:35.260 --> 00:27:37.100 whatever, you don't have to have a particular 728 00:27:37.100 --> 00:27:39.020 title, you know, or a particular kind 729 00:27:39.020 --> 00:27:40.820 of job. There's only one function 730 00:27:40.820 --> 00:27:43.120 that is to gather information all the time 731 00:27:43.120 --> 00:27:45.100 and share it with people so that the elimination of hunger, 732 00:27:45.260 --> 00:27:46.680 disease, poverty, and ignorance, 733 00:27:47.580 --> 00:27:49.000 you know, you're constantly 734 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:51.080 about that kind of business. I think we need 735 00:27:51.080 --> 00:27:53.140 to impress upon the 736 00:27:53.140 --> 00:27:54.520 black high school student 737 00:27:54.520 --> 00:27:56.820 that the doctor, the physician, 738 00:27:57.020 --> 00:27:58.920 is not the only person 739 00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:01.240 who can deliver health care 740 00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:03.360 to our people. That the black 741 00:28:03.360 --> 00:28:05.280 community is in need of midwives, 742 00:28:05.980 --> 00:28:07.500 the black community needs 743 00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:09.680 nurses, we need 744 00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:11.040 nurses' aids, nurses' 745 00:28:11.300 --> 00:28:13.020 assistants, physicians' aids, 746 00:28:13.320 --> 00:28:15.580 we need dentists, we need dental assistants, 747 00:28:15.600 --> 00:28:17.700 we need everybody who can contribute 748 00:28:17.700 --> 00:28:18.920 to the delivery 749 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:21.040 of health care to our people. 750 00:28:21.300 --> 00:28:23.620 And these students must not be 751 00:28:23.620 --> 00:28:25.460 deterred, they must not be 752 00:28:25.460 --> 00:28:26.980 hampered by black 753 00:28:26.980 --> 00:28:29.360 and white, I should say by negro 754 00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:31.540 and white people who claim 755 00:28:31.540 --> 00:28:33.500 that the profession is too high, 756 00:28:33.820 --> 00:28:35.380 too far away for 757 00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:37.640 little black kids to 758 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:39.500 get anything to do with. And I 759 00:28:39.500 --> 00:28:41.520 think that they should ignore anybody who 760 00:28:41.520 --> 00:28:43.740 tries to move them away from the profession. 761 00:28:44.040 --> 00:28:45.500 They must seek out people 762 00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:47.220 who are actually in the profession, 763 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.520 talk with them, have long 764 00:28:49.520 --> 00:28:51.320 conversations, and find out exactly 765 00:28:51.320 --> 00:28:53.700 how it is. It is filled with trauma, 766 00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:55.340 but there's not too much, 767 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:57.540 because black people have taken enough already, and I don't 768 00:28:57.540 --> 00:28:59.380 see why they can't stand medical school.