White House Health Care policy adviser and NIH scientist Ezekiel Emanuel discusses high touch medicine with Royal Philips Electronics CEO Gerard Kleisterlee, and Pathfinders founder and director Tina Staley as part of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Bio
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Ezekiel Emanuel earned his PhD and MD degrees from Harvard University, where his doctoral dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. After earning his MD PhD, he was a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Dr. Emanuel completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and an Oncology Fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and then joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Before accepting his current position as the Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in 1998, Dr. Emanuel was an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
Widely published on the ethics of clinical research, advance care directives, end-of-life issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship, Dr. Emanuel's articles have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of American Medical Association, and many other medical and ethics journals. His book, The Ends of Human Life, has been widely praised and received the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Dr. Emanuel served on the ethics section of former President Clinton's Health Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the International Advisory Board on Bioethics of the Pan American Health Organization. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, and Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He is an oncologist.
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine.
He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007.
Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
He began his career at the Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined Time Magazine in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's 14th managing editor in 1996. He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003.
He was appointed after Hurricane Katrina to be the vice-chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He is on the Board of Directors of United Airlines, Tulane University, the National Constitution Center, and he is chairman of the board of Teach for America.
Gerard Keisterlee
Gerard Kleisterlee is president and CEO of Royal Philips Electronics and is Chairman of the Board of Management and the Group Management Committee. Kleisterlee joined Philips in 1974 and has held a number of positions there, including general manager of Philips' Professional Audio Product Group; managing director of Philips Display Components worldwide; president of Philips Taiwan; regional manager for Philips Components in Asia-Pacific, where he was responsible for all activities of the Philips Group in China; CEO of Philips' Components division; executive vice president of Philips; and chief operation officer of Philips.
Tina Staley
Tina Staley, LCSW, is Founder and Director of Pathfinders, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving the experience of illness, healthcare, and healing for all cancer patients, their families, and caregivers.
Doctrine of prevention and treatment that emphasizes looking at the whole person—body, mind, emotions, and environment—rather than a single function or organ. It promotes use of a wide range of health practices and therapies, including acupuncture, homeopathy, and nutrition, stressing “self-care” with traditional commonsense essentials. In the extreme, it may accord equal validity to a wide range of health-care approaches, some incompatible and not all scientific. It does not ignore mainstream Western medical practices but does not see them as the only effective therapies. See alsoalternative medicine.
In the UK health care is on is lowest level despite the government throwing a lot of money into the system which is mainly sucked up by the administration, which means there will be less money available to treat patients.
Why are people afraid to die? Every journey has an end, and you should start realizing this
in fairly early life. Dylan Thomas certainly did in the last verse of "Fern Hill". "Little I cared in the lamb white days, that Time would take me up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of
my hand." We are born with four classic existential dilemmas faced by all people.
(1) The inevitability of death, for each of us and for those whom we love.
(2) The freedom to make our lives as we will.
(3) Our ultimate aloneness
(4) The absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life.
The old Greeks made it more pleasant:
Clotho-spins the tangled filaments of our existence into a thread.
Lachesis-measures it to its apportioned length.
Atropos-cuts the thread of life at the proper time.
Thanatos-comes to get you and take you home.
As a retired pediatrician, I'm familiar with death. It's an aspect of life.
M. MacLeod,MD
how much *money* & *profit* is made from keeping people 'just healthy enough to work', not actually curing people.
There is money in preventative medicine, polluting the biosphere, shuffling blame for polluting the biosphere... & in just enough 'palliative' care...
& a whole lot more in DENYING CARE through Americanized 'profit centre' industries related to the supposed 'health care' industry
RADIO-CONTROLLED surveillance of someone's PILL BOX?
what sort of freaking privacy violations is being rolled out in this nonsense?
of course, BigPharma & Insurance just LOVE that techology! ...low touch, high tech, indeed!
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