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When medicine measures the patient, what does it miss? (opens the original)
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Medicine is very good at measuring what happens to the body. But how do you measure what illness feels like? Artist and patient advocate Ted Meyer has spent decades using art to make the parts of the patient experience that tests and charts can miss impossible to overlook. In conversation with TEDMED Executive Director Lindsey Lynch , Meyer explores patient-created works depicting invisible pain, isolation, altered perception, scars, and survival. He also considers why medical schools are increa
What Makes Psychedelic Therapy Work? (opens the original)
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What does it take to turn a powerful psychedelic experience into responsible clinical care? In this TEDMED Conversation, Heidi Allen joins Jay Walker to examine the rapidly changing future of psychedelic-assisted therapy: what patients may need, what clinicians must be trained to provide, and what could get lost as the field moves toward approval, reimbursement, and scale. Heidi looks beyond the excitement around new treatments to ask harder questions about safety, access, ethics, and implementa
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