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Public health saved your life today -- you just don't know it
CNN
Leana Wen, physician and author of the new book "Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health," speaks with Kirsi Goldynia about creating a public health system that wins the hearts and minds of a community.
Could their lives have been saved by a system that valued every life equally? As Wen details in her new book "Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health," it was this lingering question that inspired her career as both an emergency room physician with the power to treat patients regardless of their identity or ability to pay, and as a public health official with the power to reform policies that she had seen fail so many people.![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250215004209.jpg)
The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a crisis inside the Trump Justice Department, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove led a meeting with the Justice Department’s public integrity section. His message: they had to choose one career lawyer to file a dismissal of the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to three people briefed on the meeting.
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Seventh prosecutor in Eric Adams case resigns and calls out Trump’s former lawyer in scathing letter
A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering letter that accused top leaders at the Justice Department of looking for a “fool” to dismiss the criminal charges.