Wednesday, 6 March 2013
12:30-1:30 pm
Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
University of Virginia School of Medicine
The Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture in Medical Humanities
Every Patient Tells a Story
Lisa Sanders MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
Clinician Educator, Yale Internal Medicine Primary Care Residency Program
Author, Every Patient Tells A Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
Of all the data that physicians collect on patients as they try to make a diagnosis, the patient's lived experience of his or her illness is essential to this process and can only be gathered through actual conversation with the patient. Moreover, once the diagnosis is made, the doctor’s effective transmission of that story—now completed—back to the patient is key to effective treatment. In this Medical Center Hour, physician-author Lisa Sanders (who writes the popular “Diagnosis” column in the New York Times Magazine and the “Think Like a Doctor” blog in the New York Times) probes the crucial exchanges between doctor and patient that are at the heart of every medical mystery and its solution.
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This program is free and open to the entire university and the public. Health professionals who attend may apply for continuing education credit. Medical Center Hour counts toward first-year medical students’ SIM requirements.
The Medical Center Hour is produced weekly throughout the academic year by the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Our series includes History of the Health Sciences Lectures, which we produce together with Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
For information, call 434.924.5974 or see
Watch Medical Center Hour on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/uvamch. Videos are posted a week after the program.
