Stig Östlund

tisdag, augusti 21, 2012

NEJM


VIEW THE FILM
Getting Better, our 45-minute documentary, has now been viewed by over 23,000 people. If you haven't watched it yet, here's what you're missing: This inspiring film explores three remarkable stories of medical progress- surgery, leukemia, and HIV/AIDS. Atul Gawande takes us on a journey back to the days before anesthesia, and then into a modern-day operating room. A young patient in Phoenix awaits a bone marrow transplant, the next step in a long struggle to find the right treatment for his particular leukemia in an age where we are starting to unlock the door to personalized medicine, and understand more about the disease than we could have imagined 60 years ago. And Tony Fauci talks about the early days of HIV, before the disease was recognized or the virus identified, while Paul Farmer shares his experiences working with patients in Haiti and Rwanda, where progress is still far behind the developed countries.

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