Hello, everyone, and thank you for taking the time to engage today to learn a little bit more about DEI and the impact that it can have on our medical group. I do understand and recognize that everyone is coming from a different starting point in their comfort with DEI, and in their openness and acceptance to the focus that I think is critically important to have to make sure that we are the most opening and welcoming medical group for all our current colleagues and our future colleagues. Just so you understand, this is not intended to be comprehensive training. But really just an introduction to some key concepts to start the conversation, to put it top of mind, to make sure that we're all working hard and putting in the right effort to make this a very diverse and welcoming and inclusive medical group for everyone. And I do believe, you know, not only for our medical group here at Sound, but for most companies across the United States, it is an ethical obligation to address this. It's not only the right thing to do for our nation but it's also the right thing to do for our business and our medical group. We need to make sure that everyone that's making decisions inside our medical group is doing it with the same lens of the patients that we treat. If we're not diverse, and we don't treat that diverse population with equal standing, and we're not seen as open and inclusive to it, we will begin to make the wrong decisions. We won't be able to work hard to foster and improve medical equity across all communities in the United States. We won't be as successful as we could be if we don't do well in this area. So I know when you look at me and you say, gee, it's kind of odd coming from you that this is really as important to you as you say it is. But it is very important to me as a leader of such an important part of our health care system. This medical group treats so many patients, so many diverse patients, that it's very important for us to make sure that as we're making decisions, as we're deciding how this medical group should look in the future. That we take into account all populations and not just those of our own. And so this is critically important. It's a critically important part of our future. It's a critically important responsibility that we have to make sure that we serve all communities and we serve all communities we. And that we work in our little part of the healthcare system to remove bias and to improve the health care of all our fellow citizens. So, thank you again for taking the time out. This is a critically important part of our future and we're going to need everyone's help and everyone's acceptance to be the best at this. So, thanks again. See you soon.
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