In 1990, he pioneered the first-ever patient navigation program, training people from the community to listen and answer questions after a diagnosis.

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What I want to do is have a chance to listen to you and also answer your questions.

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When President Obama and Governor Romney debate for the third time this coming Monday in Florida, I have a modest wish: Listen carefully to the questions and actually answer them.

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Like the Rosetta Stone's ubiquitously marketed computer-based product, TOTALe Online works by means of virtual immersion: Regardless of skill level, you listen in on dialogues, repeat sentences and answer questions entirely in the language you're studying.

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And one of the aspects of the job that I like the best is, I spend, as you all know, once a week on the phone with somewhere between 7 and 12 of you, and we've now had -- you've had the misfortune of having to listen to me answer your questions, at least a hundred and, I think, 15 of you.

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