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The health care analyst and substance abuse expert was LBJ's assistant for domestic affairs from 1959-65 and Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare under Jimmy Carter from 1977-79. He has written a book about health care reform called "Radical Surgery," and is president of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, a research and experimental care facility at Columbia University. Terry will be talking to him about health care reform, welfare reform and substance abuse.

Biologist Edward Golub's book "The Limits of Medicine," explores the history of medical advances and argues that medicine's new goal should be to extend health, not life span. There will be no "magic bullet" for today's major illnesses like there was for earlier scourges like polio, smallpox and diphtheria, he says. Golub was a professor of biology at Purdue University for twenty years and a director of research in the pharmaceutical industry for five years.