Getting Better

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: February 10, 2017. We expect a lot of our doctors, but they don't always have the best tools to treat us. This episode, TED speakers explore new ways to think about disease, diagnosis, and the delicate art of healing. Guests include filmmaker Jennifer Brea, anesthesiologist Elliot Krane, law professor Dorothy Roberts, and cardiologist Paula Johnson.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here.
0:01.5	So imagine that you suddenly develop a strange illness.
0:05.8	You're tired all the time.
0:07.5	It's painful to exercise or even walk.
0:10.6	And week after week, it just gets worse.
0:13.9	And the scariest part?
0:15.4	Your doctors don't even have a diagnosis.
0:18.2	So what do you do?
0:20.2	Well this week's episode is called Getting Better, and it originally aired in February
0:24.6	of 2017.
0:28.6	Is the Ted Radio Hour?
0:31.6	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:35.6	Ted Talks.
0:36.7	Ted.
0:37.7	Ted, technology.
0:38.7	Entertainment, design.
0:39.7	Design.
0:40.7	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:41.7	I've never known that.
0:42.7	Delivered at Ted Conferences Around the World.
0:44.7	It's the gift of the human imagination.
0:45.7	We've had to believe in impossible things.
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