Greater Boston
May 7, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 64 | 28m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
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Season 2024 Episode 64 | 28m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship# I am Saraya: Harvard are threatening proteste.. And what now recommend women start getting re.. And finally, Massachusetts makes it to the bi.. We hear about how the filmmakers brought Bost..
Protesters at MITI resisting efforts to take .. Officials at Harvard are making similar dema..
Both encampments have been up for roughly tw.. GBH News Hanna reality was that the M.I.T.
e.. She joins me alongside with journalist Cam K.. Ladies, thank you for being here.
GUEST: thank you for having us.
Saraya: Cam, one of the dumbest -- demonstra.. Students marched to the home of the interim .. What can you tell me about the Crimson's cove..
Guest: the rally came at a critical moment fo..
It has been 14 days now.
The protesters had first set their own deadli.. Obviously that didn't happen at the threat o..
The protests yesterday wore one of the first.. Everyone yesterday was wondering the big ques..
But they are still at the encampment so the .. Saraya: Did de-escalation do anything to the .. Cam: It is very uncertain.
The next 24 hours, I think, will be a very cr.. Obviously the protest was energized and ther.. Obviously the protests didn't take place at .. We do know they have a lot of support from t.. Saraya: We know that encampment is still the.. You were there where do you think as things .. Hannah: So M.I.T., I was there yesterday.
They had started to vacate but there were sti..
The encampment hundreds of people had gathere.. Around 5:30, demonstrators broke down the fen.. Today there were still several students there..
There were threats from the administrators t..
They want M.I.T.
to divest from Israel.
Saraya: What can you tell me about the mood a..
The tense, peaceful?
Hannah: Yesterday, tense.
Today, much calmer.
Yesterday there were, after 5:30 when they to.. Today, not quite as many but still several do..
There were at one point several hundred peop..
I saw at least three dozen officers.
I one point did a headcount and so at least ..
So there was certainly a heavy police presenc..
Presence yesterday today, not so much.
As far as students have told me, no injection.. Saraya: What is your sense of how many folks.. Hannah: I don't have a sense of infiltrators.
I talked with an organizer who said yesterday..
But a lot of people I spoke to our M.I.T.
stu.. Saraya: This next question is for either of ..
Yet at the Rhode Island school of design, the.. We have also seen that Brown, Northwestern a.. As folks with great insight into the situatio.. Cam: Harvard is unique in that it comes into .. Interim President Garber has really had the a..
But he is in a very, very tricky situation be..
It is very difficult for him to meet any of .. Harvard is still under a congressional invest..
So all of these factors make it very, very h.. College administrators have.
Yesterday's statement that these protesters a.. Saraya: To that point, it does set up a poten.. Hannah: Yeah, M.I.T., I think, is in a slight..
But what seems to actually prompt the email t..
Yet we have seen at universities such as Colu..
There have been major issues at various comp..
M.I.T.
's president also put out a statement .. And Saraya: I will end by asking the both of .. Cam: We don't know at this point what they wi.. Obviously, President Garber has stated very .. We don't know what that bar is.
Neither do the protesters.
From their calculus, escalation might mean y.. That, I think, is a signal that they are det.. Hannah: When I have asked what is next, their.. Basically, "We will stay here until M.I.T.
h.. And from what I saw yesterday, they were will..
It seems to me that students are demonstrator.. That is the sense that I get.
They are consistent and steadfast in their d.. Saraya: Henna reality and Cam Kettles, thank..
This comes from the U.S. Preventative Service..
The vice chair of the task force, Dr. John Wo..
Thank you both for being here.
We mentioned at the top that the change is a .. What prompted this new recommendation?
Dr. Wong?
Dr. Wong: Thank you so much.
The latest studies show more women have been ..
So it makes complete sense that starting scr.. And I will just make one correction, our burn..
The number of women developing breast cancer ..
But now with this evidence, it is clear all w.. Saraya: Thank you for the clarification.
Dr. Specht what does it mean for a woman to b.. Dr. Specht: It's a great question.
Normally we think of average risk as someone ..
These models include factors such as family h..
Whether they take hormone replacement therapy.
These are models physicians can use in their.. And every other year.
If someone is at elevated risk, and that cou..
If they are at elevated risk, greater than 2.. Saraya: This question goes to either of you ..
I started to read a little bit, and it seeme.. Then I read may people think that if your bre..
But then I also read that that may not be true.
I have two doctors with me now, to tell me a.. Dr. Wong: I would be happy to give the task ..
It also suggests that breast mammography may ..
I will say that it will still work, just not.. From the task force perspective, when we look..
So we call that an "i statement."
We definitely want to have the evidence to in.. Having said that, it is frustrating to know .. We are trying for it.
While we are waiting for that, we would encou.. Saraya: Dr. Specht, following up about what i..
Unfortunately --Dr. Specht: Fortunately in t..
It's a scale that goes from 1, not dense, to .. We consider those that fall into category 3 a..
So we evaluate patients at the center who hav.. And we can include their breast density to h.. Saraya: And for folks who might be concerned.. Dr. Wong: So the task force actually looked .. We used the simulation of computer modeling .. We find that that risk for developing breast ..
So it is clearly beneficial to have that scre.. To help women live longer, healthier lives, a.. Saraya: Saraya: I think I read it is about th.. Dr. Specht: That sounds correct.
Our newer imaging modalities using digital to..
When we had randomized controlled trials whic..
So that included the risks of associated rad.. Saraya: Switching gears a little bit now, we .. How might getting mammograms more often held .. Dr. Wong?
Dr. Wong: I will say the task force is very ..
So we are well aware that black women are 40..
Helping women get the first member of Monogr.. We are urging and calling for more research .. We know that black women get screened just as..
So we are calling for more research to be don..
In the meantime, we are calling for effectiv.. And if a woman should be diagnosed with breas..
Working with their trusted health care profes.. Saraya: This next question is for both of yo..
I will get a little personal here.
My last thing is about health care access.
I had a little situation where I thought some..
I went to a local emergency room, everything..
But afterwards I did want to establish a rela..
When I called to get an appointment, I was t..
It was the same one I look at other places.
Intellectually, I knew that as a journalist, .. And I am thinking, if it's hard for me as a .. Dr. Specht: We are incredibly challenged wit..
I will be perfectly honest, we are challenged..
There is a huge workforce shortage not only ..
The one thing we know is that the Affordable..
They can walk into any facility and get a ma.. With or without -- it is ideal when we have p..
I hope that will not hinder our ability to s.. We need to encourage our young students to go.. Saraya: Dr. Wong, I am sure you agree.
Do you have anything to add?
Dr. Wong: As a primary care internist, you a.. At the preventative task force, we all have .. And access to helping people stay healthy, li.. For example, we know during the pandemic man..
Breast mammograms work and if you haven't be.. Saraya: Those are the doctors' words.
Thank you both so much.
Finally tonight, if you saw the new film "th.. That's because it was mostly found in Massach.. GBH Haley Lerner sat down with the film's Bos.. She joins me now.
Thank you so much for being with me.
What did you learn from Mark Fitzgerald?
Haley: he told me about the process of being..
He has worked on almost all movies set in Bo..
Since good Will hunting.
He knows the game.
He told me how they search locations.
The film revolves around tennis.
He had to make sure there were tennis courts .. Saraya: Did you get a sense of why production..
They needed Stan Ford so Wheaton College fill..
There is also ocean.
All types of scenery.
Boston can fill in for New York and other ma..
It is versatile.
There are also the film tax credits which st..
I believe they get 25% in production credit .. Saraya: What does that do for Boston's econo.. Haley: I remember there was a TV series "Cast.. For every tax credit given, it brought a litt..
So it brings a whole production here and tha..
They have job opportunities here.
That's just hundreds of thousands of crewmem..
It gives people opportunities and job-traini.. Saraya: What about Mark Fitzgerald and how h..
He has a whole portfolio of locations.
Haley: He said the one thing I don't have a t..
He had to find a million of them and send the..
If you see the film, it all looks seamless a.. His job was finding locations and also unset..
It's quite a task.
He got to work closely with the director, th..
He said the experience was great for him.
Saraya: Did you hear that Boston is cool enou..
I hear that and I think, there is nothing dis.. [LAUGHTER] You can transform it.
Haley: That is kind of why.
Mark did say his favorite thing to do is mov..
He shot a film about a year ago with Matt Da..
There are Street in Boston that can become f.. Saraya: Haley Lerner, thank you so much.
That's it for tonight.
We will be back tomorrow.
Thanks for watching.
I am Saraya Wintersmith.
Good night.
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