Search Results for Personalized Health Care

... The genomics revolution, in which Dr. Snyderman had participated at Genentech with the sequencing of the human genome was going to transform medicine by allowing it to be more personalized and preventative. Dr. Snyderman envisioned a bold new approach termed personalized health care . Duke...

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... Leadership Managing in times of rapid change Personalized Health Care Stepping down as Chancellor Victor J. Dzau MD ...

... Dr. Snyderman stepped down as Chancellor after his third five-year term in June 2004. In the ten years since, he has actively advocated for new models for health care. He learned many lessons from his 15-year experience, some professional and some personal—but perhaps above all, he learned...

... personalized and preventative. Dr. Snyderman envisioned a bold new approach termed personalized health care . Duke foresaw this and pioneered programs in personalized medicine. Perverse reimbursement incentives made broad application untenable. However, Duke’s efforts were nationally noted and spurred...

... In this chapter Urvashi Vaid writes of her personal experience of being diagnosed with cancer, and argues for the importance of being proactive in one’s health care. The examples from her experience are used to argue also for the need for a patient-centered model of health care, rather than...

... standards. Ordinary medicine shapes our most personal experiences of growing older and ultimately undermines medicine’s ability to function as a social good. medical anthropology aging society ethics and politics of health care values health care system ...

... In this personal essay, the author witnesses a newborn baby’s struggle for survival in a clinic in Patna. This experience and similar others is used to discuss the pressing issue of poverty and dire health-care conditions in the author’s birthplace. The essay is also a meditation on home...

... stepped down as Chancellor after his third five-year term in June 2004. In the ten years since, he has actively advocated for new models for health care. He learned many lessons from his 15-year experience, some professional and some personal—but perhaps above all, he learned that the distinction between...

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... is not tied to their achievements and they deserve care simply for being human. The conclusion ends with a final activity asking the reader to reflect on the lessons from the book and to write letters to themself and others. mental health care student Georgetown University ...

... Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, and the Affordable Care Act. Second, it outlines the methodology of interdisciplinary literary study and the engagement with disability studies and the health humanities that guide the project. In order to demonstrate the kind of cultural studies analysis...

... functioned as a kind of safety net during this time, offering support and recognition in a health/care landscape that does not always view friendship as a legitimate connection. Looking to the essay “After Peter,” written by the gay Korean American author Alexander Chee, it considers some of the ways...

...II This chapter challenges common views of narrative as externalizing interior states or representing events by demonstrating how narratives are coproduced with acts of care. It uses Walter Benjamin’s work to suggest that the labor of care and of health/communicative labor are coproduced...

... with its outsider, anti-establishment roots and realize the true legacy of Stonewall. In this chapter Urvashi Vaid writes of her personal experience of being diagnosed with cancer, and argues for the importance of being proactive in one’s health care. The examples from her experience are used...

...Medicine’s Changing Means and Ends This chapter shows how the press for new technologies in U.S. health care complicates the goals of medical practice in our aging society. It examines three types of treatment—the implantable cardiac defibrillator, kidney dialysis, and liver transplantation...

... in individual behavior instead of as an instantiation of health injustice unfolding in a context of gender and racial terror. This chapter examines how certain Latinx literary representations of gender-based violence can help reframe it as a public health crisis rather than a personal failure. It examines...

... of health. This remedio explores how white supremacy and ableism have shaped the white liberalism in which the author was raise–dand which led her to both Latinx and disability studies. She threads her own experiences with an analysis of the album The Navigator by Alynda Segarra/Hurray for the Riff Raff...

... travel writing In this personal essay, the author witnesses a newborn baby’s struggle for survival in a clinic in Patna. This experience and similar others is used to discuss the pressing issue of poverty and dire health-care conditions in the author’s birthplace. The essay is also a meditation...

... into Rosemarie’s reflection about her choice of social work as a profession and the need for changes in our nation’s budget priorities toward livable wages for everyone, high quality child care, and universal health care. social work welfare well-groomed children Illinois Department of Social Services...