Thomas Frieden – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Frieden, CDC Director, answers questions on why treatment results should be public, and what America can learn from developing countries on how to address public health.
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Why don’t patients behave like consumers?
Jon Cohen, chief medical officer of Quest Diagnostics, talks about why patients don’t behave like wise consumers when it comes to choosing doctors.
Robert Gupta – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Violinist Robert Gupta, founder of the Street Symphony organization, discusses about empathic consciousness, a shared human experience that we can access by listening to beautiful music.
Does beauty have the power to heal?
Violinist Robert Gupta’s experience in neurobiology drives him to search for and to share the powerful connection between music and healing, particularly for mental illness.
Jon Cohen – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Jon Cohen, chief medical officer of Quest Diagnostics, answers questions about why patient’s don’t shop for doctors based on knowledge, judgement or data.
Is the “disease model” sick – or just exhausted?
The scourge of preposterous “pre-conditions:” Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor of Reuters Health, says labeling too many patients with subclinical illnesses leads to overtreatment, with potentially fatal results.
Ivan Oransky – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor of Reuters Health, takes questions about being both a medical doctor by training and a journalist; and how to break our cycle of pre-conditions …
When is the research an exercise in fertility?
What explains mammalian penile erection? Diane Kelly, a comparative biologist from the University of Massachusetts, explains the organ’s internal pressure system and collagen structure.
Diane Kelly – Q&A at TEDMED 2012
Diane Kelly, a comparative biologist from the University of Massachusetts, fields questions about how the mammalian penis becomes erect.
Can we get America moving again?
Katie Couric, co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer and TV journalist, talks with legendary tennis champion Billie Jean King about keeping kids healthy, wellness and cancer prevention.