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Medical Center Hour - Engineering activity back into our lives9/28/05 - How can Americans reverse the dual trends of obesity and inactive lifestyles? This panel features ideas from many disciplines: Arthur Weltman, director of U.Va's Exercise Physiologies Laboratories; U.Va kinesiologist Glenn Gaesser; Nancy McLaren, U.Va Teen Health Center; Timothy Beatley, U.Va Department of Urban and Environmental Planning. |
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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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