Yesterday we missed a chance to talk about what the 20th World AIDS Day means. I read some thoughtful–and sobering–things, and also found encouragement, as I spent a little time educating myself online. In the US, as more people with HIV/AIDS live longer, the CDC cautions, there are more chances to pass the virus along [...]
We looked at some of the big-picture data on major diseases in our second class session, but to begin to really develop an understanding of some of the major medical issues that G-Lab GHD students need to know about, we examined what a patient’s experience might be like. Thanks to our expert guests, we learned [...]
We had only a very short time–some 60 minutes–to start learning about major diseases in our class this week. As I told students, they way we see it, this class puts to the test the notion that an excellent manager knows something about the limits of his or her own knowledge, is skilled in drawing [...]