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4. Health by design, can our built environment make us healthier? (1:02:31)

Date:
October 24, 2012
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
The design of sustainable, just, and economically feasible environments for human health and well-being is one of the most urgent needs of the 21st century on a global scale. Aging populations, env...

6. Medical storytelling at its best (1:01:59)

Date:
October 10, 2012
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
As a UVA undergraduate (Class of 2010), Pennsylvania native Matthew Miller had a catastrophic, near fatal cycling accident on the Blue Ridge Parkway while training for an Ironman triathlon. He lost...

7. RN-MD collaboration, a work in progress (59:53)

Date:
November 7, 2012
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
RN-MD collaboration in health care (or the lack thereof) is one of the more vexed issues facing our struggling health care system. Yet it rarely gets addressed in a substantive and purposeful way. ...

8. Sex, sin, and sciences, syphilis in America (1:01:34)

Date:
September 26, 2012
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Social and cultural factors, as well as biomedical ones, shape the way we understand and react to diseases. In the case of a disease associated with sex, social and cultural factors figure especial...

9. The primary care physician, an endangered species? (1:02:15)

Date:
September 19, 2012
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
With the aging of our nation's practicing physicians and the recent, steep decline in medical graduates choosing careers in primary care for adults, U.S. patients today are hard pressed to find a p...