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Discussion of whether doctors trained in a premier teaching hospital are prepared to provide the sort of medical care people actually need; filmed at Johns Hopkins; evolution of the teaching hospital; study of causes of disease

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Discussion of the effect of what doctors say have on patients state of mind and on their disease; doctors reliance on technical data rather than what patient is feeling; technology building walls between doctor and patient

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Discussion on the role of medicine in the end of life; emphasis of technology over human needs; how doctors and society confront growing old in 3 different cultures; In India, people go to the Ganges for the last stage of life - in Benares, river and family, not medicine; Sun City Arizona - retirement community with high tech hospital and modern medicine promises cures for aging; Clifden Ireland - care for elderly patients in their homes

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Discussion on genetic testing to prevent disease and its effect on medicine; eugenics; prenatal testing for abnormalities; understand genetic "weaknesses"; Duchennes muscular dystrophy; genetic testing changing the way medicine is practiced; genetic counseling

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Discussion of surgery in modern medicine; faith in western medicine; changes to medicine to more entrepreneurial western style in East Germany after the Berlin wall came down; selling modern equipment to Eastern Europe; medical equipment trade show in Chicago; hard for doctors to accept doing nothing is best course of treatment

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Discussion of the search for "magic medicines" and role of drugs in medical practice; history of development of drugs; scientists honored for discovering new drugs; search for "magic bullets" becomes more complicated; toxic effects of some drugs; antibiotics

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Discussion of epidemics of infectious disease and prevention; AIDS epidemic forces medicine to deal with social problems; doctors practicing outside of hospitals; trying to stop AIDS epidemic in Sydney Australia; health services for street kids; controlling epidemics at their source; health of specific populations; in Miami preventive medicine and treating poor and homeless people and drug addicts

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Discussion of disordered states of society and body; mental illness viewed from 3 different cultures; people with schizophrenia; In India families provide support for mental patients; in Italy sickest people put in asylums; history of treatment for patients in asylums; treating patients with psychotropic drugs; schizophrenia genetic and has disorders in brain function and structure; neglect of social issues

Scope and Contents Dr Francis Collins speaking about genetics, Human Genome Project goals; schematic showing genetic map, chromosome, physical map, DNA sequence; genetic diseases, shows volumes of books listing them; functional cloning vs. positional cloning to find disease genes; explanation of why scale makes it hard to find disease genes - zooming in on boy in park by powers of 10; search for breast cancer gene - linkage analysis to find BRCA1; new technology - chromosome microdetection;  genetic testing...

Scope and Contents Dr Prosser Gifford introduces speakers - Patricia King, Eric Lander, Philip Kitcher.  Patricia King talks about relationships between government and scientists, government controls purse strings; scientists pushed towards practical goals, applied science, scientists responsive to social issues, Human Genome Project exemplifies this; HGP identified risks and costs early and focus on ethical and legal consequences; Eric Lander speaks about the Human Genome Project being similar to the Federal...