What Patients Have a Right to Know
In a new TEDMED In Context, Leana Wen revisits a provocative question: how much should patients know about the incentives, interests, and values that may shape their care?
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What Trust Requires From Medicine
Trust in healthcare depends on more than good information. This week, we look at what medicine makes visible, whose language gets heard, and what helps patients make informed decisions.
When Medicine Doesn’t Speak Your Language
Healthcare has a language of its own. Sally Okun asks what gets lost when the words patients use to describe illness, symptoms, and everyday life don’t fit neatly inside it, and what medicine might learn by listening.
Trust is Built at Every Layer
From drug oversight and media to the clinical encounter, trust can strengthen—or fracture—before a patient makes a decision. Explore five TEDMED Talks on how medicine earns trust.
Editor’s Picks: The Senses That Connect Us
Explore how music, sound, color, and technology help us express emotion, connect with others, and experience the world anew.
The transcendent power of music
West Australian instrumentalist and drummer Sam Maher performs on the handpan, exploring the ability for this instrument to transcend language and medicine.
Seeing song through the ears of a synesthete
Kaitlyn Hova is not only a professional violinist, composer, full stack web developer, designer, neuroscientist, and core team member of Women Who Code, but she is also a…
How one musician is reimagining hospital sounds
From the beep of cardiac monitors to the blare of alarms, hospitals are often jarring places to be from an auditory perspective. And for patients, the combined dissonant…
How intelligent garments can help us show more emotion
Kristin Neidlinger, founder of Sensoree, explores how what we wear on the outside of our bodies can help us express emotions and feelings from the inside, and how…
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