Stephen E Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Health Therapies: When Experts Disagree - the Art of Medical Decision Making

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) will hold the sixth annual Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Health Therapies. Speakers, Jerome Groopman, M.D., the Dina and Raphael Recanati chair of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Pamela Hartzband, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician in the division of endocrinology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will present “When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making.” The husband-and-wife team will present a new way to make the best medical decisions. They reveal that each of us has a “medical mind,” a highly individual approach to weighing the risks and benefits of treatment. To ascertain our unique medical minds, they will present probing questions. Are you a minimalist or a maximalist, a believer or a doubter, do you look for natural healing or the latest technology? Drs. Groopman and Hartzband explain how pitfalls in thinking and the way statistics are presented in pharmaceutical advertisements, the news media and even scientific reports can mislead all of us. The talk will demonstrate the contrast between the role of population guidelines with the care of the individual, and explain the complexities of end of life care – all factors that contribute to a person’s “medical mind.” In their talk, Drs. ...
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