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What's Health Got to Do with It?

Influential leaders in medicine

“We really need to come together as a nation” to fight the COVID-19 respiratory disease, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said on Monday. America's top doctor warned that "this week it's going to get bad."
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Former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams.

On this week’s program, Dr. Joe Sirven speaks to two of the most influential physicians in the United States beginning with Dr. Bruce A. Scott, an otolaryngologist and current president of the American Medical Association. Scott discusses the role of the AMA in health care, the biggest challenges physicians face and burnout.

Then, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recounts his time on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. He shares insights about the disease and how lessons learned will shape the management of public health responses in the future.

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Stacey Bennett is the producer of "First Coast Connect" and "What's Health Got to Do With It?" She is a Jacksonville-based singer-songwriter who performs under the nom de plume Folk is People. Stacey holds bachelor's degrees in both political science and psychology from the University of North Florida and a master's in business administration from Saint Leo University.