Rethinking Medicine

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Our approach to treating disease is, in many ways, narrow and rooted in the past. Is it time for a new paradigm? This hour, TED speakers share their visions for new ways to understand medicine. Guests include cancer physician and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, surgeon and writer Atul Gawande, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, and internist Joseph Ravenell.

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0:39.0	So throughout medicines, most recent history,
0:42.0	we've pretty much followed one rule of thinking
0:45.0	when it comes to treatment.
0:47.0	Have disease, take pill, kill something.
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