26:55 - 28:40 And, so that's how I started. I had never been involved in politics because there was no political activism during the [argentine dictatorship]. You could die, if you were politically active during the dictatorship years. And, we marched to the Chancellor's Office and within, you know, 20 minutes of arriving, we were surrounded by police, with their guns drawn at us. And, and so the students, the leaders, who were sixth year med students, started talking to the police chief, [explaining] why we were there, that we were there so that the children of workers could actually enter medical schools, that the children of police officers could actually dream of an education in medicine. And, after speaking with the student leaders, they decided that they were not going to [fire], they were actually going to protect us. And then, soon after the military police came up as well. And then the local police turned their guns at them and said, we're here to protect them. We're not gonna [fire at the students], you can leave. Well, we didn't know then that the police themselves had risen against the dictatorship because they had not been paid for four months. So it was like, we were very lucky [laugher] that they had already been [angry] because otherwise I don't, I wouldn't be telling you this story. I am certain of that. But what happened was extraordinary and we started with 100 students that marched.
19:36 - 21:20 So I had this ritual in San Marcos, Texas. That was the church that I was [ordained] in which happened to be the first church established in Texas. So they were ordaining the first Latina in the first church that had been established in Texas and its history, right? So, I remember they have this, you know, big hoopla and big celebration and rightly so it's a historic, wonderful gathering. And my grandmother, my sister tells me. It's a small wooden church, not very big. And my sister said, “Your grandmother, tu Abuelita, quiere hablar contigo [wants to speak to you].” So I said, okay, so she, We were at the back of the church, outside the church. And my grandmother said to me, “I'm very happy for you. I want to give you a benediction, a blessing.” And she says, “I want you to remember, yes, you had a big, wonderful ordination service inside that church, that building, but I don't ever want you to forget that what you really were ordained to do was outside the building, not inside.” And that has always stayed with me, in terms of my work, spiritually was never to be confined inside the walls of a church. It was always to be transcended. And so I've always seen the work of the Holy to go into every aspect of everyone's life, not just inside the walls of a particular religious building.
46:20 - 47:55 [Duke] was very different in that we didn't have anything. Even getting people on disability, on Supplemental Security, or social security disability was very difficult in HIV, because we didn't have parameters to go by. I was trying to get medications, I was trying to get home health, nursing, I was trying to get rents paid and, sometimes clothes for people who would just wind up coming into our clinic with nothing but scrubs on from when they had been discharged from the hospital. Because we didn't have a lot of parameters, I was building the parameters. I was involved inpatient, I was involved outpatient, and in working with the outpatients, I was the inpatient social worker, because there wasn't one. Then, I was working with the community agencies in order to be able to get services before these folks died.
19:19 - 20:36 The program initially started because of the infant mortality and maternal maternity death rates was so high. And due to their studies, they found that a lot of it was because of late entry into prenatal care. So they were trying to figure out a way now how do we do this? The state said we got to go ahead and we got to lower these rates. So they came up with this program of Baby Love which was specifically for Medicaid patients and low-income patients and they come into the system, we would meet up with them, we would do the basics, connect them to the community resource that they need.. Like a lot of them didn't have Medicaid and they were waiting to get Medicaid to start prenatal care -- which is not the case, you could start your prenatal care and then we could get you sign up for Medicare. And Medicaid will go back and pick up [schedule] your first appointment. So we had to get rid of that "He said, she said" stuff in the neighborhood. You know, apartment A talks to apartment B and C and then all this wrong information is out there. So once we started doing that, and then they started talking amongst themselves, it got way better.
40:16-41:00 We discovered that kids in public school had daily tooth pain, and a huge proportion of them had no dental care and had no access to dental care, and only a couple of dentists took Medicaid and only a couple of Medicaid patients a year. So the community wanted dental care for kids. I don't know anything about dental care for kids. I'm a family doctor. But I learned about dental care for kids, and what we did was created- with everybody else- a dental van, that's like a cardiac cath van, and went from school to school to school to school and got permission from the schools, and got- the Health Department kicked in a halftime dentist. And then they got permission from parents to let the kids get their care, dental care, there. And so we got kids dental care.