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The Medical Center Hour: Big Doctoring: Primary Care in America-- Essential and Endangered2/28/07 - Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., of The George Washington University School of Medicine, discusses "big doctoring," coordinated, comprehensive care over time, which seems to be disappearing from health care in the U.S. If primary care as a specialty and a systematized type of practice is endangered, what else might be at risk?. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Will You Vaccinate Your Daughter Against Cervical Cancer?2/21/07 - Michael Rein, M.D., and Mark Stoler, M.D., of UVA give the 2007 Gibson Lecture of the Cancer Center, discussing the new vaccine against cancer-causing strains of human papilloma virus that promises to virtually eradicate cervical cancer, yet Gardasil's use is not without controversy. Who should be vaccinated? At what age? At what risks? Who decides? Should vaccination be mandatory? Who pays? |
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The Medical Center Hour: Reframing Disability: New Ways of Seeing and Representing Disability2/14/07 - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Ph.D., of Emory University and Walt Davis, M.D., of UVA discuss how we view, define and represent persons with disabilities and how it reflects our social and cultural values, including our ideas of what's "normal." How might new portraits of disability help to reframe our understanding? |
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Thinking and Looking Forward: The 2007 State of the Office of African-American Affairs 2/1/07 - Maurice Apprey, interim dean of the Office of American-American Affairs at the University of Virginia, presents the annual State of the Office of African-American Affairs Address. Apprey, a professor of psychiatric medicine and the School of Medicine's former associate dean for diversity, was named interim dean in July 2006. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Remembering Chris Jebson: What the Patient Taught Her Doctor1/31/07 - Dr. Laurel Rice of UVA and Mr. Bob Jebson, widower of a patient, together deliver the annual Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture of the School of Medicine, which this year discusses what attentive physicians might learn from their patients about the impact of illness. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Race-Based Therapeutics1/24/07 - Gregg Bloche of Georgetown School of Law and Norm Oliver of UVA's School of Medicine discuss a
new generation of pharmaceuticals seeking to take account of biologic
variations distinguishing subpopulations crudely denoted as racial groups. |
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Preparing for Pandemic Flu 12/12/06 - The Virginia Department of Health is beginning a public awareness campaign to to educate people and organizations on what to do if a pandemic flu should come to the United States. Lilian Peake of the Thomas Jefferson Health District and Dr. James Turner of the U.Va Student Health Department give a quick update of area and University preparedness. |
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Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality 11/17/06 - An audience in Fairfax recently had the chance to tell Dr. Arthur Garson their thoughts about some of the problems in our expensive system. Dr. Arthur Garson is the dean of the U.Va Medical Center, and a member of several blue-ribbon panels to fix the nation's health care system. He's also the co-author of Health Care, Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality. |
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