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1. A story of success in reversing urban health disparities (58:56)

Date:
March 1, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Where you live in a particular U.S. city determines your predicted life expectancy. Neighborhood is destiny, in a way. For example, in New Orleans, there is a twenty-five-year difference in life ex...

2. Assuring fair access for all: Vivian Pinn's achievements and legacy (57:16)

Date:
September 13, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
On 13 September 2017, the University of Virginia proudly dedicates as Pinn Hall the medical education and research building formerly known as Jordan Hall. The building’s new name recognizes UVA med...

3. Care: inside the world of elder home caregiving (50:19)

Date:
October 25, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
A diverse population of caregivers working in clients' homes constitutes a vital link in our health care “system,” their services filling a gap between institutional care and what families are able...

4. Clinician's ear: learning to listen (1:02:34)

Date:
January 25, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
The stethoscope, an extension of the clinician's ear, is perhaps modern medicine's most characteristic symbol. Through it, doctors listen for the body to disclose its secrets. Doctors must also lis...

5. Doctors as makers (1:04:11)

Date:
February 1, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Understanding and responding to patients' complex health needs and challenges requires physicians--and all healthcare providers--to think creatively. Knowledge and information are not enough. We mu...

6. Eros and illness: a caregiver's tale (1:03:25)

Date:
March 15, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
The caregiver—whether a family member pressed into service or an underpaid home-care aide—is a representative figure of our time. This status is paradoxical because actual caregivers (so often fema...

7. First nations' resilience: two communities take on an epidemic (2:01:44)

Date:
September 27, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
When the First Nations of Big River and Ahtahkakoop in Canada's Saskatchewan province realized they had an HIV epidemic within their rural communities, their leadership and health centers rallied c...

8. How can I meet you? Knowing each other through poetry and medicine (56:12)

Date:
November 8, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
We live in times when empathy—the ability to imagine how it feels to be inside the skin of another—seems to be in short supply. As a writer of poetry and memoir, Mark Doty believes that literature ...

9. Is there life after death? Fifty years of research at UVA (1:02:10)

Date:
February 22, 2017
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Does some aspect of our personality survive bodily death? Long a philosophical and theological question, in the 20th century this became the subject of scientific research. Fifty years ago, in 1967...