The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast
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========== Translator: Ilze Garda
Reviewer: Denise RQIn this talk, I'm going to give you
the single most important lessonmy colleagues and I have learned
from looking at 83,000 brain scans.But first, let me put
the lesson into context.I am in the middle of seven children.Growing up, my father called me a maverickwhich to him was not a good thing.(Laughter)In 1972, the army called my number,and I was trained as an infantry medic
where my love of medicine was born.But since I truly hated the idea
of being shot at or sleeping in the mud,I got myself retrained
as an X-ray technicianand developed a passion
for medical imaging.As our professors used to say:
"How do you know, unless you look?"In 1979, when I was
a second-year medical student,someone in my family
...