5 powerful speeches that changed medicine for the better
The right talks at the right time by the right people. Did you hear them? And did you really listen?
The right talks at the right time by the right people. Did you hear them? And did you really listen?
TEDMED 2013 wraps up today. When it was at its best, TEDMED included a series of gut-wrenching patient stories, blunt challenges to the orthodoxy of the profit margins of non-profit hospitals, and discussions on how medicine looks at patients and itself. It was very much a 2.0 version of last year’s TEDMED (2012 was owner […]
Sally Okun delivered one of the best talks of TEDMED 2013’s first full day. She also achieved a TEDMED milestone. Okun, the vice president of advocacy, policy and patient safety for PatientsLikeMe, was the first nurse to ever speak at the event. In some ways, the way it took nurses awhile to arrive at TEDMED […]