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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

June 21, 2010 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

In 1951 a young black woman by the name of Henrietta Lacks came to Johns Hopkins with cervical cancer. Doctors took her cells, grew them in a dish, and created the famed HeLa cell line. It was HeLa cells that created the cornerstone of some of the 20th century’s greatest medical advances. One small detail: The treating physicians who took Henrietta’s cells never ... Continue Reading about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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How Doctors Think – How Patients Think

June 18, 2010 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

If you want to see the difference between how doctors and patients think, read Jerome Groopman’s How Doctors Think and Thomas Goetz’s The Decision Tree. The contrast is striking. How Doctors Think, while offering a comprehensive review of the cognitive missteps made by physicians, is terminally physician-centric in its analysis of the relationship we share with ... Continue Reading about How Doctors Think – How Patients Think

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The Decision Tree – An Early Roadmap to the Future of Personal Health

May 3, 2010 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

What’s amazing is that despite the vocal movement to empower patients, no one has put together a well-referenced, readable book to help patients understand how they should use personalized medicine to influence their health. Until now. Enter The Decision Tree – Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine (Rodale 2010/affiliate link), ... Continue Reading about The Decision Tree – An Early Roadmap to the Future of Personal Health

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Vaccine-Preventable Disease – The Forgotten Story

October 22, 2009 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

I’ve always suggested that when we publicly put a human face on the victims of vaccine-preventable disease we would begin to win the war against antivax propaganda. We’ve arrived. This month Texas Children’s Hospital published Vaccine-Preventable Disease – The Forgotten Story, a compilation of first hand stories told by the families of those touched by vaccine ... Continue Reading about Vaccine-Preventable Disease – The Forgotten Story

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Direct Red – A Direct Look

October 8, 2009 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

I think the world has reached its quota of medical memoirs.If you’ve read one, you’ve read them all.Formulaic stories of quirky patients, crises of conscience, awkward med students coming-of-age and overbearing superiors are all too much for me at this stage of my medical career. So why I might have been drawn to Gabriel Weston’s Direct Red – A Surgeon’s View of Her ... Continue Reading about Direct Red – A Direct Look

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Bryan Vartabedian is a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital and one of health care’s influential voices on technology & medicine.
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