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Laura Bush

Laura Bush

Educator and former First Lady of the United States

Aug 13, 2026

21:43
Where do you think patients are losing the most time in their diagnostic journey? DR.
21:47
I think that the problem with healthcare now is everything's so siloed.
21:52
And sometimes getting into DERM, like DERM could have been the answer in this patient, right? It could have been the answer maybe a year earlier or six months earlier, but the referral wasn't done.
22:02
She didn't get into the clinic.
22:05
And the other thing is that one hand doesn't know what the other hand's doing.
22:08
So it's so hard.
22:10
I admire it's so hard even to get into a primary care until something's like tragic and then everybody jumps to see it.
26:12
So, Laura, talk to me about a case where multi-specialty collaboration has changed the diagnosis, management or outcome with a patient with myositis.
6:31
Wow
6:31
... to get us to where we are.
6:34
Um, and now you look at our bodily autonomy.
6:37
I mean, look at what this administration is taking away from us.
6:41
You know, uh, b- we had rights to our own bodies, rights to, um, have children, not have children, um, rights to education.
6:50
I was working with a young student at North Central College out in Naperville who was applying to continue on a master's program in women's studies.
6:59
Do you know that you cannot use the word woman when you're applying for federal funds, but you can use the word man? It's that-

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Mm

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