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Medical Center Hour - How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine2/8/06 - Although physicians make use of science, medicine itself is not a science. That's according to Kathryn Montgomery, director of the program of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University. Montgomery has written a new book suggesting clinical judgment is required to help prevent unnecessary medical mistakes caused by false assumptions. |
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Focusing "Down Low": Sexual Behavior and Identity Issues n Clinical Medicine and Public Health 2/1/06 - David J. Malebranche, M.D., M.P.H., Emory University presents a discussion of the medical challenges facing African-American males who are sexually active with other men. This talk is co-presented with the medical student Committee on Confronting Health Inequalities |
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Medical Center Hour - Talking With Children: The Tough Conversations1/25/06 - David Waters and Catherine Casey of the U.Va Department of Family Medicine discuss how to break news about serious medical conditions to children. |
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Medical Center Hour - Cultural Impact of Once and Future Plagues11/9/05 - In the Middle Ages, waves of bubonic plague decimated Europe. What lessons can the past teach us about future plagues and their impact? Herbert Swick with the Institute of Medicine and the Humanities in Missoula, Montana, offers his thoughts. |
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Medical Center Hour - The Breast10/26/05 - The female breast is at once anatomical structure, source of nourishment and nurture, sexual organ and cultural icon. Maura Spiegel of the Columbia University English Department explains how a deeper understanding of the breast's significance might help patients, families and health professionals. Jennifer Harvey with the U.Va Breast Care Center responds. |
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Medical Center Hour - Pharmacogenomics: Scientific and Ethical Issues10/19/05 - Paul Insel with the University of California, San Diego, discusses the new field of pharmacogenomics - the study of how genetics can predict how patients will respond to drugs. Insel talks about medicine might be changed, and what new social and ethical questions will arise. |
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Medical Center Hour - Public/Private Partnerships10/12/05 - Can public/private partnerships help remedy health disparities? This panel discussion includes Barbara DeBuono of the Pfizer Public Health Group, Randy Axelrod of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Jane Woods and Arthur Garson, Dean of the U.Va School of Medicine. |
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Medical Center Hour - The Cultural Meaning of Anatomical Representation10/5/05 - A discussion of how the study of anatomy has changed over time from a public spectacle to a medical affair. Featuring Michael Sappol with National Library of Medicine, and cell biologist Virginia Taylor Lyons of U.Va. |
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