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This week’s show is about Health. Lisa Pickoff-White talks to local businesses about health care ordinance in San Francisco. Julie Johnson reports on a special program to help victims of sensless violence. Vianna Davila visits UC Davis to follow a very special patient, and Kim Geiger has a conversation with one of Capitol Hill’s most powerful women in the ’90s.     

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The producer of today’s show was Kim Geiger. Our executive producer was Ben Manilla. The assistant producer was Adithya Sambamurthy. The anchors were Sierra Filucci and Ian Sherr. The engineer was Kerry Seed. The webmaster is Ian Sherr.

Music from today’s show includes:

Hearbeat by Don Johnson

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Hands-On Training

Good health care often starts with good doctors and nurses. But where can they get the hands-on practice they need, before they get their hands on their first patients?

Vianna Davila goes to the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento, where medical students and veteran doctors practice on a different kind of patient, one that’s never going to file a malpractice suit.

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Trainees practice on plastic airway models at UC Davis Center for Virtual Care.

A baby simulation model at UC Davis Center for Virtual Care.

Morgan, the young child simulation model.

Stan, a 185 pound male simulation model, who can blink, has vital signs and, in some cases, can make voice noises depending on how he feels.

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Keeping today’s victims from becoming tomorrow’s shooters

About 40 percent of people who arrive at emergency rooms in San Francisco with gunshot or stab wounds will come back with similar injuries. The caseworkers with Wraparound Project at San Francisco General Hospital talk with victims of street violence as soon as they enter the emergency room about the impact of retaliation and ways to build a better life.

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Restaurants Struggle with Healthy San Francisco

In January the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance went into affect. Now, all for-profit employers with more than 20 workers have to offer health insurance to their employees or pay a fee to the city.

This ordinance hit many city restaurants especially hard, since most hadn’t offered health insurance before. Correspondent Lisa Pickoff-White spoke to customers, waitresses and managers to see how the ordinance has changed things.

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For more information on Healthy San Francisco, visit the official website, Here.

And

The Golden Gate Restaurant Association’s website, Here.

Informing customers while protesting policy.

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Continuing the Dream

Many factors went into making Barack Obama the man he is today. But had he come of age at any other time, the color of his skin would have dashed any of his hopes.

Ian Sherr traveled to Selma, Alabama, to revisit its civil rights legacy and to find out exactly what Barack Obama’s presidency means to the people who struggled all those years ago.

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For more information about Brown Chapel AME Church, visit the National Park Service website, Here.

For more information about the civil rights movement in Selma, visit the National Voting Rights Museum website, Here.

Some archival photos from around the web:

Brown Chapel AME Church exterior

Congressman John Lewis, then chair of the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee, being beaten by Alabama Police.

An aerial view of a follow-up march over the Edmund Petus Bridge on March 21, 1965.

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Healthcare in the Future

Kim Geiger interviews one of the most powerful women in the Senate during the 90s about where she thinks President-Elect Obama’s healthcare plan is going.

For more information, take a peek at these articles:

“Moody’s predicts winners and losers in Obama’s health reform,” The Health Care Blog, Nov. 18, 2008
, Here.

“Political temperature may be just right for health care overhaul,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 18, 2008
Here.

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