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Conference encourages revolution in health & medicine
This article originally appeared on Communities@WashingtonTimes.com. April 9, 2012.
Revolutions seem to be a dime a dozen these days. But the uprising launched this week at the TEDMED medical conference in Washington, DC, just might be the most far-reaching of them all, impacting in some way, shape, or form the vast majority of those living on planet Earth. . . .
From a program that included powerhouse speakers like Thomas Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Francis Collins from the National Institutes of Health—not to mention sports greats Gabby Reece, Laird Hamilton, and Billie Jean King—it’s likely that the lesser-known performance poets Sekou Andrews and Steve Connell will be the ones most responsible for setting this insurgency in motion.
Andrews and Connell began their TEDMED presentation by asking the audience, “Where do revolutionaries come from?” Drawing on examples as diverse as Jonas Salk, Martin Luther King, Jr., and César Chavez, they emphasized the fact that revolutionaries aren’t some specially trained group of people, but simply those who are willing to stand their ground.
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May 28, 2012 issue
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Letters
Ellen Hammond, Michael Thatcher, Sue Pocklington, H.M. Wyeth
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A divine promise of health
Maike Byrd, Staff Editor
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Reliable health care
Nate Talbot
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When I didn't react...
David Boggs
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The Bible – a series of encounters with God
Alessandra P. Colombini
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Daily communion
Lu Ann Condon
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Why write?
Cindy Snowden
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Meekness and the "elephant walk"
George Zucker
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We have a heritage of freedom
Olive Ratcliffe
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Crossing the Red Sea
Parfait Mabela
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Tunisian summer
Steve Ryf
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Erase and 'redraw'
Justin Ashbrook
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Pollen storm, but no allergies!
Justin Ballantyne
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A growing, healing church
Olene Carroll
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Gathering to glorify God
Rodolfo Jerome Lacusong
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Conference encourages revolution in health & medicine
Eric D. Nelson
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Lots of laughs
Submitted by Marilyn L. Trump
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'I will always be grateful'
Floyd S. Smith, Sr.
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Healed of excessive bleeding
Judith Little
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Knee pain healed
Kim Wiklund
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Prejudice overcome and other blessings
Susan Stark
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Toward a more humane society
The Editors