Doctor Finds Second Career Selling on EBay; Hillary for President in 2016?
PHILLIPS: You can just see the lawyers lining up. More than 200 patients who had CT scans at Cedar Sinai Medical Center got more than they bargained for, a lot more. An apparent computer glitch led to a radiation overdose. Patients got eight times the radiation they should have, and the L.A. Hospital didn't find the mistake for 18 months. Forty percent of the patients lost patches of hair. Now, the FDA is urging hospitals nationwide to double-check their equipment. He's 4 months old, actually and weighs 17 pounds. And he's part of the health care reform battle. A Colorado insurance company had denied the baby coverage, deeming him too fat. That's right, too fat. And did I mention he's 4 months old? Now, Rocky Mountain Health Plans is changing its policy. It will no longer consider obesity a pre-existing condition for hefty infants. She put her medical practice on hold to have twins, but a funny thing happened amid the diaper changes and breastfeedings. The doctor became an eBay whiz. If you've ever dreamed of making a mound of money online, listen up. Here's our Allan Chernoff.</s>ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Dr. Jennifer Lickteig was a busy mom of two. Then twins arrived, forcing a career pause for the family practitioner. Between feeding and changing her genetically identical daughters, Dr. Lickteig was on eBay selling apparel and discovering she had the genes of a businesswoman, a trait that had been hiding behind her medical degree.</s>DR. JENNIFER LICKTEIG, EBAY ENTREPRENEUR: It's just kind of this thrill. You know, for me I thought that was the most amazing thing.</s>CHERNOFF: Natalie and Melanie are now 3 years old, allowing Dr. Lickteig to practice medicine again part time, but she hasn't given up on eBay. In fact, she says she made $120,000 selling on eBay last year, more than she makes practicing medicine. For her, it hardly seems like work.</s>LICKTEIG: I think it's the thrill of, like, having built up this business and just done it myself. You know, I don't have to get an MBA. I don't have to have a storefront. You know, this is like mine.</s>CHERNOFF: The doctor orders merchandise from wholesalers and uses much of her home and garage as a warehouse. (on camera): Isn't this crazy? A doctor, like, buying all this warehouse stuff?</s>LICKTEIG: It sort of is. But I mean, it's just -- it's a business. You know, it's a successful business.</s>CHERNOFF (voice-over): So successful, she's the postman's best customer. Jennifer's husband, Larry, has a good job as an actuary. So, it's not as if Dr. Lickteig needs a second career, but you just never know when it could come in handy. (on camera): How important do you think it is for people to have a plan B or an alternative?</s>LICKTEIG: Oh, I think it's pretty important. I mean, when you look at all the -- you know, the recession and people losing their jobs. I mean, if you have something to fall back on, there's a little bit of insurance.</s>CHERNOFF (voice-over): Medicine still has its rewards for Jennifer. But like many doctors, she's frustrated that insurance companies and malpractice lawyers have so much influence on medical practices.</s>LICKTEIG: If you had looked into a crystal ball and someone told you that you were going to have four children some day and given all the hassles of medicine, would you have ever done it? You know, then I would have said, heck no.</s>CHERNOFF: But this supermom is trying to do it all, juggling two sons, twin girls and twin careers. The ultimate balancing act for a doctor who believes in having a little moneymaking fun on the side. Allan Chernoff, CNN, Hiawatha, Iowa.</s>PHILLIPS: Today could be a pivotal day for health care reform. A key Senate committee is poised to vote on a sweeping health care bill, and Maine Senator Olympia Snowe is on board. Snowe's the only Republican to back the compromise plan. It aims to insure 94 percent of Americans. The man who's allegedly behind a 1968 plane hijacking is due in court today. Luis Soltren and his accomplices allegedly hijacked a Pan Am flight from New York and diverted it to Cuba. He finally surrendered to U.S. authorities over the weekend. Don't threaten Iran with sanctions. It won't work. That's the word from Russia's foreign minister after meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Moscow. The two were talking ways to get Iran to prove its nuclear ambitions are peaceful. Russia believes pressuring Iran would be counterproductive. Hillary for president in 2016? Not going to happen. Been there, ran for that. Enough. Clinton says she's not interested in going down that campaign trail again. So, do you believe it? Or do you think she's protesting too much? Here's our senior political correspondent Candy Crowley.</s>CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As declarations go, this one on NBC was pretty darned declarative.</s>ANN CURRY, NBC NEWS: Will you ever run for president again, yes or no?</s>HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: No.</s>CURRY: No?</s>CLINTON: No.</s>CROWLEY: A couple of weeks shy of her 62nd birthday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on the job, diplomating her way through the British Isles.</s>BRIAN COWEN, PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND: I'm delighted that she's taken time to visit us here today. I would of course like to take this opportunity to recognize and congratulate President Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.</s>CROWLEY: The Irish prime minister did say Clinton has been fundamental to Obama foreign policy, but it seems like kind of an "Ouch!" moment, given what might have been or almost was. But the former Democratic presidential candidate claims she has never wished she were the decider.</s>CLINTON: No, not at all. I am part of the team that makes the decisions.</s>CROWLEY: A debate over whether she's a key team player is one of Washington's 2009 parlor games. There are other foreign policy advisers the president knows better, and many who are closer in proximity to the presidential ear. One paper called Clinton largely invisible on big-ticket items, columnists suggest she's been marginalized. She calls that absurd and a misunderstanding of her nature as a delegator.</s>CLINTON: I would be irresponsible and negligent were I to say, "Oh, no. Everything must come to me." Now, maybe that is a woman's thing. Maybe I'm totally secure and feel absolutely no need to go running around in order for people to see what I'm doing.</s>CROWLEY: Clinton did make team play a hallmark of her Senate career and routinely won praise as a workhorse, not a show horse. And as one friend insisted recently, Hillary's always been a policy wonk first, a politician second. Is it possible that the former first lady with the famous last name and a lot of ambition, the senator who came this close and still that far from becoming president looks no further now than where she is? In the unlikely, unpredictable life of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, all things are possible.</s>CLINTON: This is a great job. It is a 24/7 job, and I'm looking forward to retirement at some point.</s>CROWLEY: Now, she just has to convince everyone else of that. Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.</s>PHILLIPS: "Desperate Housewife" on TV, proud Latina in real life. Eva Longoria's got something to say about being Latina in America.