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And one of the best ways we can take care of the human patient is by paying close attention to how all the other
patients
on the planet live, grow, get sick and heal.
And we can do it with regular cameras and without touching the
patients.
Let's first go to China, where the country's largest I.T. service provider, Neusoft, has developed a telemedicine solution to help doctors in cities remotely treat old and poor
patients
in Chinese villages.
Instead of building expensive hospitals, China is using telemedicine to cost-effectively treat millions of patients, and Africa, instead of building banks and electricity grids, is going straight to mobile payments and distributed clean energy.
This device can scan more
patients
on a daily basis, and yet consumes less energy, which is great for hospitals, but it's also great for
patients
because it reduces the cost of treatment by 30 percent and radiation dosage by up to 60 percent.
Now we treat 100,000
patients
a year in our projects.
Paraplegic, quadriplegic
patients
dream about moving every night.
And that's exactly why Juliano could kick that ball just by thinking, because he was wearing the first brain-controlled robotic vest that can be used by paraplegic, quadriplegic
patients
to move and to regain feedback.
We had no exoskeleton, we had no patients, we had nothing done.
These people came all together and in 18 months, we got eight
patients
in a routine of training and basically built from nothing this guy, that we call Bra-Santos Dumont 1.
So we got this going, and what you'll see here is the first time one of our patients, Bruno, actually walked.
At that time, MSF and the treatment center there, they were seeing dozens of
patients
every single day, and these patients, these communities were becoming more and more terrified as time went by, with this disease and what it was doing to their families, to their communities, to their children, to their relatives.
As the number of Alzheimer's
patients
triples by the year 2050, caring for them, as well as the rest of the aging population, will become an overwhelming societal challenge.
Motion sensors would be installed inside the tiles of bathroom floors to detect the falls of elderly
patients
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
Testing the device on a number of
patients
made me realize that I needed to invent solutions for people who didn't want to wear socks to sleep at night.
So sensor data, collected on a vast number of patients, can be useful for improving patient care and also leading to a cure for the disease, possibly.
One of the first
patients
I had to see as a pediatrician was Sol, a beautiful month-old baby who was admitted with signs of a severe respiratory infection.
I remember the types of
patients
that I was examining.
The
patients
were a little older than what we were used to seeing in winter, with longer fevers.
We could see which children got more seriously ill: children under four, especially those less than one year old;
patients
with neurological diseases; and young children with chronic pulmonary diseases.
A lot of kids were being referred to me for ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but when I actually did a thorough history and physical, what I found was that for most of my patients, I couldn't make a diagnosis of ADHD.
For our
patients
who do screen positive, we have a multidisciplinary treatment team that works to reduce the dose of adversity and treat symptoms using best practices, including home visits, care coordination, mental health care, nutrition, holistic interventions, and yes, medication when necessary.
However, to hundreds of thousands of
patients
in need of a lifesaving organ Laika is a symbol of hope.
You see, ever since the 1970s, when organ transplants became a real option for
patients
with kidney failure and other organ diseases, organ supply has been an issue.
Currently in the US, there are close to 115,000
patients
in need of a lifesaving organ transplant.
The situation is heartbreaking for patients, for their families and for the doctors who want to do more.
In Asia, for example, media outlets reported that desperate
patients
are obtaining organs from the cruel black market.
Imagine a world where
patients
who suffer from liver failure can be saved with a new liver without having to wait for a donation or another human to die.
And imagine a world where
patients
with kidney failure do not have to face the burden of dialysis.
However, it is our responsibility to translate the cutting-edge science into medicine to save the lives of all the
patients
who are waiting.
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