What medicine can learn from art | Lucie Wilk | TEDxAylesbury

Troubled by patients being viewed as victims of their diseases, Dr Lucie Wilk explores the scientific evidence for the importance of a paradigm shift: away from victimisation and toward empowerment. After all, by ignoring the effect of the mind on our bodies, we are missing an important ingredient in successful healthcare.
Dr Lucie Wilk is a medical doctor and a novelist, currently writing her second novel. She obtained both her specialist medical training and her MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She has practised and taught as faculty in the UBC Department of Internal Medicine. In 2010, she moved with her young family to the UK, where she has worked as a consultant in several NHS Hospital Trusts.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@suedaly4056]

So excited that some doctors are now recognising this - well done Lucie for standing up and talking about it in a very well thought out accessible way

[@sheilabergquist3043]

Really wonderful talk. I so hope that medicine will soon realize how important our mind and emotional health is. I'm so glad that doctors, such as yourself, are finally talking about this. Great job.

[@mvoptca]

Excellent presentation. I only wish there were physicians near me that were as enlightened. That is the first step towards creating a different mentality among patients other than "write me an Rx and I'll feel better". This holistic approach needs to be introduced and supported by our trusted health care professionals before patients can be expected to adopt it and improve their own wellness.

[@mariapesquera5525]

Medical humanities must be part of EVERY Medical School curriculum. Thank you for a wonderful presentation.

[@stephanieensworth2532]

Absolutely brilliant! Extremely well delivered!

[@rosarebada4777]

Please pray about writing a nonfiction book for patients. Your topic is not a TedX best seller, but the baby-boomer seniors are in the waiting rooms aching for your message.

[@mypinkvespa]

oh my goodness! As an RN - THANK YOU for articulating what I have been struggling with recently!!

[@rozalinapiano]

Arthritis: How little is considered in regards to environmental illness! Stress resilience depends on involvement with felt sense Expressive Arts therapy that deal with Most important issues of complexity that may not be dismissed and oversimplified! Thank you for speaking about things that are intangible and yet invaluable to human beings

[@lisengel2498]

Very strong message - so true and so inspiring

[@maricamaas2326]

MD Nicholas Gonzales RIP pointed out how all diseased states are simultaneously 100% physical, 100% psychological, and 100% spiritual.

[@paulacorbero]

Supreme. Very good. Thank you.

[@2wyth.gbedupoet]

Brilliant

[@deedee99ist]

Fantastic. Thanks so much ....🙏

[@andreaholbrook2677]

Brilliant!!!!!

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I liked and subscribed EPIC video!