How to make diseases disappear | Rangan Chatterjee | TEDxLiverpool
Can you actually make a disease disappear? Dr Rangan Chatterjee thinks you can. Often referred to as the doctor of the future, Rangan is changing the way that we look at illness and how medicine...
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Translator: Queenie Lee Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs I can make diseases disappear. To be more precise, I can make chronic diseases disappear. You see, chronic diseases are the long-term conditions, like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, depression or even dementia. There are 15 million people in England who have already been diagnosed with a chronic condition. So that means looking out amongst you now, there are probably about 250 people in here who have one of these long-term conditions. Just one of these alone, type 2 diabetes, is costing the UK 20 billion pounds every single year, and I'm standing here before you saying I can make these diseases disappear. See, I'm not a magician, I'm what the Americans call an MD. That's n...
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Translator: Queenie Lee Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs I can make diseases disappear. To be more precise, I can make chronic diseases disappear. You see, chronic diseases are the long-term conditions, like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, depression or even dementia. There are 15 million people in England who have already been diagnosed with a chronic condition. So that means looking out amongst you now, there are probably about 250 people in here who have one of these long-term conditions. Just one of these alone, type 2 diabetes, is costing the UK 20 billion pounds every single year, and I'm standing here before you saying I can make these diseases disappear. See, I'm not a magician, I'm what the Americans call an MD. That's n...
