KCET ‘Life & Times’ Special To Focus on Health Care in Southern California
KCET's "Life & Times" on Tuesday will air a special with three segments examining health care issues in Southern California.
The first segment will examine the shortage of specialists in emergency departments and its effect on patients.
The second segment will profile Latino Health Access, an organization with a diabetes education and self-management program that pairs educators with diabetes with residents of minority neighborhoods with diabetes.
The final segment will examine life expectancy for people with HIV/AIDS who take antiretroviral drugs, HIV prevalence among African Americans and the recent detection of a rare strain of HIV that is resistant to most antiretroviral drugs (KCET, "Life & Times," 3/15). The complete transcript and audio of the program in RealPlayer will be available online after the broadcast.