Tag: TEDMED 2015

  • Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient’s skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk,…

  • Who Cares for Health Care? Breaking Through: TEDMED 2015 Palm Springs, California 2015-11-18 through 2015-11-20 Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Physician, heal thyself … and while you’re at it, how about healing…