TEDMED talk for April 17, 2013 Medicine Writ Large. Most of the presentation is without slides as is usual for these events.

1. Medicine Writ Large
Kim Solez, M.D.

2. Consortium Final Report from 1994, Title Page

3. Banff Transplant Pathology Meetings Began in the
Transcanada Pipelines Pavilion at the Banff Centre in
1991, Future Meetings Are Planned through 2019.

4. Patan Academy of Health Sciences Annual
Consultative Meeting 2011, Nagarkot, Nepal

5. Unique Multidisciplinary Course on Technology and
the Future of Medicine LABMP 590 Created in 2011

6. • Evidence for the Coming
Evidence for the Coming
Primacy of Machines
Technological Singularity
1. Time Magazine cover Feb. 2011
“2045: The Year Man Becomes
Immortal”
2. IBM’s Watson computer beats top
human contenders on Jeopardy!
3. Foxconn announces plans to
replace one milion workers with
one million robots Nov. 2012
4. The Technological Singularity
appears in Dilbert March 2013

7. Medicine Writ Large
“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else than
medicine writ large. Medicine as a social science, as the science of
human beings, has the obligations to point out problems and to
attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical
anthropologist, must find the means for their practical solution. ”
– Rudolf Virchow

8. Medicine Writ Large
“It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most
horrible situations by habituation. Physicians are the natural
attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be
solved by them.”
– Rudolf Virchow