Medicine
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He saw that the great majority of what we do in
medicine
and health care is taking care of ourselves.
I picked up that book, and as we drove from the edge of the Grand Canyon to Big Sur, and to, actually, here where we are today, in Monterey, I read that book, and from when I was reading that book, I knew that I wanted to have a life in
medicine.
It was wise doctors and advanced
medicine
and surgeons who knew what to do with their hands.
More recently, Harvey Cushing, who really developed neurosurgery as we know it, who changed it from a field of
medicine
that had a majority of deaths resulting from surgery to one in which there was a hopeful outlook, he was very conscious that he was not always going to do the right thing.
But he did his best, and he kept meticulous records that let him transform that branch of
medicine.
And as a result, when we say, "This isn't brain surgery," that pays tribute to how difficult it was for anyone to learn from their mistakes in a field of
medicine
that was considered so discouraging in its prospects.
What does this mean for
medicine?
Four, modern
medicine.
Modern
medicine
in the late 19th century began to make major breakthroughs against the infectious diseases that killed a lot of people.
And as a teacher of medicine, as a student myself, I was so inspired by that story.
So what I'm going to show you is all of the main things, all of the main features of my discipline, evidence-based
medicine.
And of course, there's the placebo effect, one of the most fascinating things in the whole of
medicine.
We know from three different studies on three different types of pain that a saltwater injection is a more effective treatment than a sugar pill, a dummy pill with no
medicine
in it, not because the injection or pills do anything physically to the body, but because an injection feels like a much more dramatic intervention.
This is undoubtedly the single biggest ethical problem facing
medicine
today.
And you might also know that, for science and medicine, Boston is a bit of a candy store.
And this inadequacy of cancer
medicine
really hit home when my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
This is old information we've known since about the 80s, yet there's no
medicine
I can prescribe to a patient with this or any of the numerous solid tumors caused by these three ... Horsemen of the Apocalypse that is cancer.
Now, as I was training in clinical
medicine
and hematology and oncology and stem-cell transplantation, what we had instead, cascading through the regulatory network at the FDA, were these substances: arsenic, thalidomide, and this chemical derivative of nitrogen mustard gas.
For example, if a person, from that red group, has to pick up the package leaflet of a medicinal product, to give a dose of
medicine
to his/her child, he/she can't, can't understand the information.
I was offered a position as associate professor of
medicine
and chief of scientific visualization at Yale University in the department of
medicine.
You know, my partners at Kleiner and I were compulsive networkers, and so when we see a big problem or an opportunity like avian flu or personalized medicine, we just get together the smartest people we know.
We are
medicine
men, we are
medicine
women, we are sun dancers, we are pipe carriers, we are traditional language speakers.
It's a huge success story in modern
medicine.
And it's not just because of regulation; it's because of the amount of money needed under the current evidence-based
medicine
and the size of trials and so on to make it happen.
What do we know about the country and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one
medicine
to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is opium?
I want to talk to you about one of the biggest myths in medicine, and that is the idea that all we need are more medical breakthroughs and then all of our problems will be solved.
In fact,
medicine
today is a team sport.
And that is the light that I want to shine on health and
medicine
today.
That genetic material probably belonged, if it could belong to anyone, to a local community of poor people who parted with the knowledge that helped the researchers to find the molecule, which then became the
medicine.
And finally,
medicine.
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