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Stephen Friend: Create a map of our Health
Stephen starts with a Tibet poet that states that there is a moment at the end of each live where you can see back with complete clarity on the meaning of your live. More and more because of numerous sensors, medical records and other data stored we
Bart Knols: Cheese and dogs and a pill to kill mosquitoes
It’s dark…and suddenly there’s the hugely irritating sound of…a mosquito. BrrrZZZZZzzzzZZZzzZZ…and BANG. Dead. In the spotlight, Bart Knols appears: ‘Mosquitoes. I hate them! That sound! The one good thing about th
Edje: Do you ever ask yourself what we can learn from traditional medicine?
Surprise: Out of the Suriname jungle came Edje Doekoe into our own TEDxMaatstricht jungle. Edje is medicine man for the Saamaka in Pikin Slee Suriname. We are not the only public watching Edje today: in the internet café in Pikin Slee Suriname the v
Anke Tijtsma: We are the World
She carries a huge plastic beach ball with a globe design on it. But she isn’t taking us to the beach. Anke Tijtsma is taking us to when she was thirteen and deeply impressed by band aid. We are the world, she sang, we are the children, and she
Judith Homberg: Walking on the treadmill
Judith’s talk had a very illustrative beginning. Wearing a lab coat she was comparing different liquids that either mix or do not mix with differences in human personalities. These geeky experiments that we all remember from our chemical lessons in
Peter Nicks: A letter from a patient to his doctor
I am watching a fragment of a seemingly disoriented man in a hospital bed with a smile on his face. This is a somewhat contradictory image. “Why does he have a smile on his face?” I wonder… “This is my first time in a hospitalR
Paul Levy: Balls and beds: building champion teams in soccer… and hospitals
Although he has left his job as a CEO for the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Paul F. Levy is still passionate about improving healthcare. He is also passionate about soccer, having coached girl soccer teams for twenty years. Which
Cathy van Beek: Patients in the driver seat: that’s participatory healthcare!
Cathy van Beek at stage: she is Member of the executive board and Chief Medical Officer of Radboud University Medical Centre since October 2011. She is involved with patient care for a very long time, even before this concept actually existed. In her
Jeroen van Dillen: three dilemmas of participation
On stage: the inside of a patient’s room: a bed and behind it a wall with postcards: much luck, get well soon. Nothing spectacular; the regular stuff in hospitals. Nothing comfortable; unfortunately also the regular business in hospitals. Despite
Roni Zeiger: what is a patient?
What is a patient? Roni Zeiger, also known as Dr. Google, knows. He takes the audience of TEDx Maastricht through a journey of technology and health and his lessons learned. ‘Patients are experts and physicians should listen to them.’ This vis
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