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Medical Center Hour: Can We Teach Humanism in Medicine? 9/21/05 - Can the qualities, attitudes, and behaviors that we call "humanistic" be taught to medical students and residents, and if so, how is this best done and by whom? Three faculty winners of the School of Medicine's Humanism in Medicine Award take up these questions and offer their ideas: Eugene Foley, M.D.; Mark Mendehlsohn, M.D.; and Christine M. Peterson, M.D.. |
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Medical Center Hour: Robert M. Wachter on medical mistakes9/14/05 - Why are errors so commonplace in American medicine? How do they happen? Who is responsible? What needs to be done to cure this troubling epidemic? Drawing on personal experience and extensive research, physician Dr. Robert Wachter wrote about this topic in his book Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. In this Medical Center Hour, he draws on powerful cases from clinical medicine as well as anaologies from other industries, and offers practical tips on how we might reduce error and achieve greater patient safety. His talk is followed by comments from Dr. Margaret Plews-Organ with the U.Va Medical Center's Department of Internal Medicine. |
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The College of Arts & Sciences Reunions Forum:
Aging 6/4/05 - Aging is inevitable for nearly all living organisms, and despite the proliferation of anti-aging therapies, there is no escape. Tim Salthouse and Debbie Roach each do research on aging and are beginning to understand why aging is inevitable, and how to quantify the aging process and the changes that occur in individuals as they age. |
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How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going6/4/05 - Edward Murphy, assistant professor of astronomy and Director of education and public outreach, traces the history of your atoms from the Big Bang to the present day. Where did the atoms in your body come from? How did they get here on Earth? What will happen to your atoms in the long-distant future? You'll discover the many interesting places that you've been, from the core of a star to the deep cold of space. Murphy also briefly discusses the history of the McCormick Observatory. |
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How the Earthquake Bird Got its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature 6/3/05 - Environmental Science Professor H. H. Shugart presents important environmental concepts using stories about particular birds and mammals such as the woodpecker that was too picky, the engineering rodent, the rat that hid time in its nest, and others with seemingly quirky traits. Shugart explains what their destinies reveal about the interactions between changes in the environment and the extinctions or explosions of certain species. |
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