If you’re a medical student not watching TED videos yet, you might want to start. TEDMED (a spin-off of TED) has phenomenal short talks “imagining the future of health and medicine.” Below, Brian Goldman discusses, “Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?”
Thanks for the blog post! We’ll hope you’ll check out our options to stream TEDMED live at your school (for free!): http://www.tedmed.com/conference/live
Med students might be learning surgery w/steel instruments, but don’t get too attached to them – they’ll soon be replaced with handheld surgical robots that look similar, but pack biomechanical smarts: http://www.tedmed.com/videos-info?name=Charles_Pell_at_TEDMED_2011&q=updated&year=all
And, check this out in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/science/17rib.html?_r=2&ref=science