Stream Your Event | Partners | Speakers CART ITEMS: - | CHECKOUT

The Human Side of Medicine

Watch Full Video | previews

The Aspen Institute

Info
Bio
Chapters
Preview
Download
Zoom In

Can Eastern Philosophy Improve Western Medicine?

02 min 57 sec

Add to Profile

Tina Staley explains the philosophy of her organization, a health care non-profit called Pathfinders.

By combining Western psychology with Eastern philosophy, Staley is confident that a holistic approach is the best for treating dying patients.
Healthcare Reform: Emanuel Says High-Touch Not High-Tech

04 min 46 sec

Add to Profile

White House health care policy advisor Ezekiel Emanuel argues that technological advancements in health care are ineffectual without "face-to-face, people-to-people, more human" interactions. He says improvement in doctor-patient relationships are needed to improve health care and drive down costs.
Watch Full Program

01 hr 16 min 22 sec

Add to Profile

There are 4 comments on this program

Please or register to post a comment.

Previous FORAtv comments:

Monalisa

Posted: 03.19.10, 07:55 AM

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.

Ozipop

Posted: 08.05.09, 06:25 PM

Keep the witchcraft off the forum please.

Malcolm MacLeod,MD

Posted: 08.03.09, 12:47 AM

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

BlueBerry Pick'n

Posted: 07.30.09, 07:58 AM

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! Spread Love, ... BlueBerry Pick'n can be found @ The Jeff Farias Show streams FREE & LIVE Mon-Fri, 6-9pmEDT "We, two, form a Multitude " - Ovid. " Violence can only be concealed by a Lie, & the Lie can only be maintained by Violence. " ... " Any man, who has once proclaimed Violence as his Method, is inevitably forced to take the Lie as his Principle " – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " - Voltaire ~~~ " Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced "