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Well, I want to thank you all for coming,

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and especially the people
that came from outside of Philadelphia

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that hovered over here;

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especially those of you that time-traveled
from other decades and times.

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I'm Steve Klasko.

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I'm the CEO of Stevie's Vinyl Emporium
and Implantable Health Chips

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in South Street in Philadelphia.

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(Laughter)

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That's what I am today.

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But for the past ten years,

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I've been the presidency
of Thomas Jefferson University

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in Jefferson University Hospital System

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that literally was one of the pioneers
along with several others

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for what is now called
the leaders of the optimistic future

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in Healthcare Revolution
from 2015 to 2024.

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So for those of you
who are coming from another decade,

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or for those of you
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I'd like to talk a little bit
about how that journey happened

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and maybe give you
a little bit of the personal story

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about how it happened for me.

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So first one of the things that we did,
is we got tired of whining,

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and we decided
let's just travel to the future,

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think about what we want
and then create it.

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For me, that started in 1977.

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Very important time for me,
I was a senior medical student.

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It was important because I got asked
to give a talk for TED.

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Now not the TED you're thinking of
because TED didn't exist in 1977.

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It was called tomorrow's
education of doctors.

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It was everything different
than the technology that exists today.

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It was a little slideshow with a screen,

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but they asked me to talk about
what the future of medicine looks like

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from a medical student's point of view.

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I remember it for it was the first time
I saw the Rolling Stones -

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this is what they looked like
back then; I was a huge fan.

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But what I talked about because I
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I talked about: Can you do anything
about spiraling costs?

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Can you change the fee-for-service system,


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so we're really rewarding
value and not volume?

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And can you measure outcomes?

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And I said my generation of docs is going
to solve this over the next four years.

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We are not going to be dealing with this
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Well, amazingly the docs said, "No."

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And that didn't happen.

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Now I was also a very different
person back in 1977.

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This is what I look like.

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(Applause) (Cheering)

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Thank you.

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That's called a leisure suit.

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(Laughter)

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But for a brief interlude
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I think it's safe to say
it's out of the fashion lexicon forever,

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but the car was in 1968 GTO
which was and is a very cool car.

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Thank you.

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So then we went through really
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the middle or dark ages,

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the Managed Care Revolution,
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It didn't really provide care;
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the balanced budget amendment,

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which didn't balance the budget,
and didn't really amend anything.

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And then the first iteration
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of what was then called Obamacare.

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So that brings us to 2014,
and why was 2014 important to me?

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Well, I was very proud and honored
to be inaugurated and selected

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as the first president and CEO

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of Thomas Jefferson University
and Health System combined.

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It was also a big moment for me
because it was the second time I saw them.

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This is what the Rolling Stones
looked like back in 2014.

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(Laughter)

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And in my inauguration
I was given a script,

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and what I talked about
my inauguration in 2014 is:

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"Hey, can we do anything
about spiraling costs?"

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Can we change the fee-for-service?

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Do you think we can measure outcomes?

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That was a bit of an a-ha moment for me,

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I said, "Well, 37 years, that's a lot
for not to have much change."

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This time though, the insurers
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"We're really going to do it."

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And really what people
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because believe it or not, even at 2014

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the docs said: "I really don't
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I think things are fine
the way they were."

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And you couldn't go a week
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threatening the extinction
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So I'm proud to say here in Philadelphia
and at Jefferson we said yes,

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and I'd love to talk to you a little bit
about what happened between 2014 and 2024.

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So here we are in 2024, and by the way,

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I don't know if any of you saw it
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the Zombie Rock Tour, it was awesome.

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It was awesome.

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By the way, those Facebook
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can be bought at Stevie's Vinyl Records
and Implantable Devices.

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(Laughter)

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I thought the Rolling Stones,
the Rolling Stones rocked,

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(Laughter) (Cheers)

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they rocked the undead tour, right?

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Who agrees with me?
They rocked the undead tour.

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Seven decades of great Rolling Stones.

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You talk about
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look at these guys.

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(Laughter)

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But more importantly, more importantly,

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what happened in Philadelphia,
what happened at Jefferson was,

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that we took that mode of saying -

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people said that it's impossible
to change healthcare.

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And really the personal piece,
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didn't come from Maimonides or Aristotle,

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or even somebody from the University
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It came from a sneaker commercial.

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It was an Adidas marketing campaign
back in 2014 called the Impossible.

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It said "impossible" is just a big word
thrown around by small men and women

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who find it easier to live the world
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rather than explore the power
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Impossible is not a fact; it's an opinion.

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Impossible is temporary;
impossible is nothing.

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So we decided, "What the heck,
let's do the impossible."

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Because everybody knew
things were changing,

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we weren't going to wait for a miracle.

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And we said, "Let's do it."

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OK, so here it is, it's March 28th, 2024.

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Now I apologize for those of you
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but I know some of you
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and I just want you to know
where we're at today.

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So it's March 28th, 2024,

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President Jenna Bush will be debating
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in what a lot of people think
will be a very tight race.

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Harrison Ford has signed up
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tentatively titled Indiana Jones:
the Legend of Bingo Night,

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we're all excited about that one.

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And the Eagles are 2-0
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since the unprecedented fourth straight
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the so-called Chip Championship Years.

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(Applause) (Cheering)

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Of course, Governor Chip now has a very
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Jefferson is celebrating
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as an international hub of innovation,

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with headquarters in Philadelphia,

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instead of just the Philadelphia
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We've become a destination site
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with unprecedented economic development,

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and our creative partnerships

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have allowed us to become
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a thriving cluster on the verge
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which has helped make Philadelphia
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By the way, I'm getting out of my DeLorean

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to accept an award from the US News
and Interplanetary Report.

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As most of you know in 2019,
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with slightly dysfunctional
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so they are now part of the ranking system
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So how did we get there? I'd like to ...

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TEDx has asked me to talk
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that were very different.

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First of all, we decided that we're going
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that it's ridiculous to have the same way
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that became autonomous,
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and that we actually were going
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literally one physician at a time.

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You may not believe this,

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but back in 2014, we still chose doctors
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which were a multiple-choice test,
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And somehow we were amazed
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communicative, and creative.

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As my kids would say, "Duh."

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So we changed all that.

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What we recognized is that it used to be
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and I think there are actually some,

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I see some people from 2014,
I see some people from the '80s.

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Go Journey, yeah.

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I see some tie-dye out there,
some '60s and '70s. Peace!

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But we decided to transform admissions.

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What we realized is
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is on what in 2014 we called
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but really what we needed
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So we now really select physicians
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and the ability to adapt,
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relationship management, teamwork,

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and the ability to really embrace change
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we totally changed the way that we teach
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Believe it or not back in 2014,

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we used to spend two years
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in large auditoriums,
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when we recognized
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have them learn that
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Now we spend most of our time
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Teaching them to really observe,
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workshops designed to sharpen
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by looking at art.

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Very unusual partnership,

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it was Thomas Jefferson University,
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an institute for an optimistic
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We took students
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medical students originally said,

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"Well, that's a woman;
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But when you started to look
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it started to totally change the way
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And at the end of the day, we went
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to folks who could deliver
team-enabled and team-based care.

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Doctors went from being captains
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and they, believe it or not, work closely

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with multidisciplinary
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including doctors of nursing practice,
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clinical pharmacists,
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and at the Thomas Jefferson Institute
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professions that didn't
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things like probability experts,
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and telehealth professionals.

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So we recognized that we needed
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We also recognized that the patient
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Back in 2014, you could actually
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anything you needed
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but could you get an appointment
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Could you interact
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So we decided that healthcare needed
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If you even look at how people
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how many of you are here from the '70s?
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So the big tip television show
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Now here's what Marcus Welby was.

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He was a family physician.

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He would get up in the morning,

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he would go to the homeless shelter,
take care of people for free.

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On the way home to lunch, a cow would
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he'd deliver it.

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He'd then go to his family medicine
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and then at night he'd do
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We were Gods, we could do everything,
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In the 2010s this is what we had.
Anybody remember this guy?

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He was a drug-addicted,
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that couldn't communicate or see patients.

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That's what people viewed us.

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The number one TV show of 2023?

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Was Doctor WHO, which
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who basically fell in love
with his robotic-bionic counterpart

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who does all the scientific stuff
while he does the emotional stuff.

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And as you can imagine, hilarity ensues.

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By the way the first season of Doctor WHO

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is available on Google Glass
implantable chips,

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available at Stevie's Vinyl Records
and Implantable Chips on South Street.

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So the other thing we embraced
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We recognized that being academic
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just were not mutually exclusive,

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and we also recognized that we had
to enhance the consumer experience.

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It really was lousy going to a physician.

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This is what it looked like back in 2014.

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Female: What's wrong?
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F: Then you need to go to a doctor.

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Female nurse: Mr. Stephenson?
S: Stevenson.

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FN: Do you have any allergies?

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How would you describe your symptoms?
What is the general area of pain?

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Doctor: And what seems
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S: I'm feeling a little stuffed up.
I'm experiencing some ...

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FN: Doctor, your 3 o'clock is early,
your 2:45 is late from 6 and 7.

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D: Follow these instructions;

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if it doesn't clear up in a week or two,
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S: I don't like going to a doctor.

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SK: So in July of 2014, we partnered
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could access Jefferson doctors
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or computer, and American Well.

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and once you've done it,
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D: Hi Allen.

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I see you've been experiencing
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afterward, you get a complete
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D: It looks like acute sinusitis,
a sinus infection.

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I'll be right here.

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waiting for me at the pharmacy.

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in your Google Glasses

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at Stevie's Vinyl Records
and Implantable Health Chips.

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We also recognized
that information was everything.

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As Yogi Berra would say,
it comes down to one word, big data.

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we used to do everything
based on experience and anecdote.

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Evidence-based medicine in 2014
was actually a novel idea.

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And now we recognize that we can
take things from other industries.

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in 2014, we started

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the Center for Healthcare,
Entrepreneurship and Scientific Solutions.

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We said, "It really doesn't make any sense
that Nick Foles has a better idea

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of whether or not a screen pass
will work in the third quarter

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than I do of whether or not
a cancer drug will work."

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and created a predictive analytics
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to reduce uncertainty in medicine.

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Believe it or not, in 2014, 28% of people
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got readmitted within 90 days.

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we're able to see exactly
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will keep people from coming back.

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Not only that, we've changed
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In 2014, family medicine physicians
would actually be out of the hospital.

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Hospitalists would never
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and then there was no real communication.

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hospitalists that actually
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so they don't get readmitted.

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because we can actually
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And we can actually
give you predictable answers

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as to what you're paying for
and what you're getting back.

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Accountable care organizations
for the first time really are accountable

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because we have math to back it up.

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One of the great things
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believe it or not, again in 2014,

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with decreasing NIH funding,

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Penn, Jefferson, Temple, Drexel,
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What we did, and one
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we created the Philadelphia
Clinical Research Super Site

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where we said really what's important
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both in education and research,
and make Philadelphia an epicenter.

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and Molecular Genomics at Jefferson

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and create the DNA vending machine.

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For those of you from the 2010s,
it's sort of like a red box for your DNA.

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We can now pick a drug for you,

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and instead of saying it's
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we can take exactly
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and have it available for you.

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We can also put your genome on a chip,

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so that God forbid,

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if you need a new organ,
we can make that for you

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based on work that's been done
in Philadelphia.

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And we finally decided
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to really make them
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and this is what it means.

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It means that in a community
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if we're able to make you healthier,

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we do better as physicians; you do better.

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from again outside Philadelphia

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to look at a different way
of making sure that everyone matters,

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that we can look at not only drugs,
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to look at personalized
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integrating a proven system
to drive health outcomes.

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Whether it's mindset, or nutrition,
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we were able to do many more things
that didn't require pharmaceuticals.

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So that brings us to 2024, and as I said,

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I'm here to accept our number one ranking
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and what's really cool is

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that some of the ranking parameters
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and I'll give you an example
of a few of them on the academic side

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and also on the clinical side.

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we actually, imagine this,

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get ranked based on how our students do
at one year, three year, or five year.

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We measure individuals' professional
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at varying intervals after graduation.

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Because after all, that's why
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then they actually
get some of their money back.

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We have a collaborative quotient.

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Academic entities are incentivized
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and work well with others,

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which would have been unheard of in 2014

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when they were all
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And we have an entrepreneurial quotient
where institutions are rewarded

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that invent and envision
new ways of doing things

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that generate alternate revenue
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But probably nothing's changed
the most than health quotients.

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that parameters were based
on the reputational score in the past.

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Now it's based on what patients think.

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The one I'm really proud of
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is called the BUB Quotient.

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It stands for the
Believable Understandable Bill,

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that we actually have enough
respect for patients

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that we provide understandable bills,

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so they can understand
what they got and what they're paying for.

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We have the say-what-you-mean
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We actually take marketing professionals
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in the marketing we do,

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and see if they have any semblance
to reality of what really happens

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in the hospital,

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and you get points
if there is some semblance to reality.

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And then finally we have
the through-the-patient-eyes factor.

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basically when they get in the hospital
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and they basically can record
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how the doctors and nurses
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and then we have CEOs of other hospitals
look at that video for a day

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and grade on 1 to 10 whether they'd like
to spend a day in that hospital.

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And again that's a great parameter for us.

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So a lot has happened since 2024,

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and I'm really excited to be here.

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We're about to accept an award
in the new Convention Center & Casino

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on the Schuylkill River.

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(Laughter)

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And some things
from the past really are good.

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I'm going through my third midlife crisis

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because I'm 70 and what happens
is people live to 120,

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so midlife crises have changed.

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And I'm proud to say
this is what I got myself,

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I was able to retrofit a GTO
to hit the standards for a hovercraft.

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Excuse me for a second, Google Glass out,
could you get the GTO to get ready

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to go to the Convention Center?
Great. Thank you.

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Listen, I want to really
thank you for being here,

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I want to thank you
for traveling in time and space,

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and most importantly,
stay healthy in Philadelphia.

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Thank you very much.

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(Applause) (Cheering)