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Imagine that next time you go to your doctor and do your next standard blood test, a lab technician extracts a total RNA, which is quite simple today, and puts it in a standard 96-well plate like this one.
Dr. Barss came to the ceremony and explained that as a young doctor, he wanted to see the world.
Put it this way, and I exaggerate only slightly: If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then smokable cocaine would be easy to get with a prescription from your doctor and selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars.
Becoming a doctor was my dream.
I had this one doctor, Dr. Sam, who always took care of me.
The head doctor, though, said no.
What I saw behind every excuse was deep fear, and what I learned was that to become a doctor, we have to put on our white coats, put up a wall, and hide behind it.
Of course, patients are scared when they come to the doctor.
Some want to know that their doctor is competent and certified to practice medicine.
Some want to be sure that their doctor is unbiased and is making decisions based on evidence and science, not on who pays them.
Serena, a 32-year-old accountant, says that it's important to her for her doctor to share her values when it comes to reproductive choice and women's rights.
Frank, a 59-year-old hardware store owner, doesn't even like going to the doctor and wants to find someone who believes in prevention first, but who is comfortable with alternative treatments.
One after another, our respondents told us that that doctor-patient relationship is a deeply intimate one — that to show their doctors their bodies and tell them their deepest secrets, they want to first understand their doctor's values.
Just because doctors have to see every patient doesn't mean that patients have to see every doctor.
As a result of this, I formed a campaign, Who's My Doctor? that calls for total transparency in medicine.
If you go to your doctor because of back pain, you might want to know he's getting paid 5,000 dollars to perform spine surgery versus 25 dollars to refer you to see a physical therapist, or if he's getting paid the same thing no matter what he recommends.
Within one week of starting Who's My Doctor?
And finally, many people wrote and said, "Let us patients decide what's important when we're choosing a doctor."
Remember Dr. Sam, my doctor in China, with the goofy jokes and the wild hair?
Well, she was my doctor, but she was also our neighbor who lived in the building across the street.
You knew that your family doctor was the father of two teenage boys, that he quit smoking a few years ago, that he says he's a regular churchgoer, but you see him twice a year: once at Easter and once when his mother-in-law comes to town.
The ICU doctor looked at me in the eye, pointed at my then 16-year-old sister, and said, "Do you remember when you were that age?
Six months later, in March, he called my husband and me, and he said, "Oh, Mom and Dad, we have a doctor that found a diagnosis for that wrist.
Do you want to come with the doctor's appointment with me?"
That morning, Pete, John and I all got up, got dressed, got in our cars — three separate cars because we were going to go to work after the doctor's appointment to find out what happened to the wrist.
I looked at my husband, he looked at me, and then we looked at the doctor, and we said, "ALS?
Now four years ago, I injured my foot in a climbing accident and I went to the doctor.
If you have an infection, go to a doctor.
But today, I can stand here and I can talk to you about beating Ebola because of people whom you've never heard of, people like Peter Clement, a Liberian doctor who's working in Lofa County, a place that many of you have never heard of, probably, in Liberia.
And I kept thinking, one day I could be sitting in front of a doctor who looks at my exams and says, "Ricardo, things don't look very good.
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