*Note: This article contains generic information – not legal or medical advice. Always seek professional counsel. Here are 5 incredible TEDMED Talks that you may want to view: What veterinarians know that physicians don’t About This Talk: “TEDMED, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at UCLA Medical School) offers an unusual perspective on how human patients, including those suffering from mental illnesses, can be helped by applying insights from animal health.” What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe: About This Talk: “When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data are especially misleading and dangerous.” Food for thought: How gut microbes change your mind About This Talk: “John Cryan, a neuropharmacologist and microbiome expert from the University College Cork, shares surprising facts and insights about how our thoughts and emotions are connected to our guts.” How do we heal medicine? About This Talk: “Surgeon by day and public health journalist by night, Atul Gawande explores how doctors can dramatically improve their practice. Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine — with fewer cowboys and more pit crews.” Are we over-medicalized? About This Talk: “Reuters health editor Ivan Oransky warns that we’re suffering from an epidemic of preposterous preconditions — pre-diabetes, pre-cancer, and many more. In this engaging talk from TEDMED he shows how health care can find a solution… by taking an important lesson from baseball.” Source
