Hi, this is Nicholas Webb and welcome to another episode of The Healthcare Cure podcast. You know, I've had an interesting journey in my career as a management consultant as a owner of various medical companies throughout the years. And, you know, I realized in my later life that I had the opportunity to start hearing different voices and getting different vantage points. And that's really what I love about my opportunity to meet and work with people at the university I had a chance to evolve even at my ripe age of 62, I began to realize that we are inventing the wrong things. We're inventing more gratuitous interventions and more treatments and more drugs and more and more and more. And many of these, of course, are important. But what about using our innovative prowess to invent more health in sort of more treatment? I think that to me is the thing that Dr. Power and I were most interested in when we started this process of Fixing Healthcare documentary film. 

One of the most amazing people that I've had the honor to meet is on the screen today with us, and she is incredible. I, you know, I it's so funny, because you think you write the books and you give the lectures and you think you know everything of you. The other day, we were talking, and she said, Yeah, Nick, so what about the, you know, the food pharmacy? And I'm like, Well, you know, I am a learned expert in this and wait, what, what's the food pharmacy? And the next thing I know, my mind is blown. And Azaria taught me that there is a whole new way of looking at the prescription of interventions, and that resulted in this amazing, amazing, enlightening for me and hopefully for you the listener. But before we go into that, I'd like for Azaria to talk a little bit about her journey. She really is an amazing person. I wish that she was running for the President of the United States right now, because I would be her campaign manager, and she would be elected and in a heartbeat, she's just has a beautiful spirit. I love the fact that everything that she talks about always is about being able to impact other people. And that's beautiful. And unfortunately, we just don't have enough of that right now. And I probably should stop doting on you Azaria. But why don't we, why don't you introduce us to your awesomeness by telling us about your journey.

Awesome. Thank you so much for that amazing intro. My name is Azaria Lewis. I am a second year at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific at Western U. My journey so, I went to UC Davis as an undergrad and kind of experienced some some challenges academically, which led to my going to Charles R. Drew University, which is in Watts, California for post baccalaureate certificate. And you know, it was there that I really saw, you know what a food desert looks like what an underserved community looks like. And the impacts of that, right across the street from our university is the Martin Luther King hospital, which was known at the time as the killer King hospital because so many deaths happen at that hospital. And I think it was that that moment that I realized, how disadvantaged some communities of color and communities that are socioeconomically lower, socioeconomically lower status were impacted by, you know, social issues but also the health care system, how they kind of neglected in general. And you know, my childhood, early on, we would be considered lower socioeconomic status, my parents worked really hard to move us up the ranks, so I wasn't really exposed until that moment, you know, attending that university for two years, so really opened my eyes and impassioned me. And my goal since then, has been to figure out solutions to the problem that impacts so many people of color and so many people who were low socioeconomic status. So that's been my mission since and I was fortunate to get a master's degree at Western U.