These little chippies, these things are the size of a credit card.

By switching out that antibody, you can look at a different protein, thus, a different disease potentially any disease in the entire world.

18.Rare diseases

So this is really considerable.

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

So that takes more time.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

That we found out that we could take fuzzy concepts like depression, alcoholism and measure them with rigor.

It's made a mistake.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

Some of you may remember that.

These are years that we could get.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

This is a place where the oldest living female population is found.

But I'd like to make the case to you in the next 17 minutes that when we shortcut the physical exam, when we lean towards ordering tests instead of talking to and examining the patient, we not only overlook simple diagnoses that can be diagnosed at a treatable, early stage, but we're losing much more than that.

Ely's Test assesses for rectus femoris spasticity.

Ely's Test assesses rectus femoris spasticity.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.

like Parkinson's or essential tremor.

When I travel around, I ask my colleagues in biomedical research

Check

Inspection?

Analyze.

Elyn, you don't really understand

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

We think there's a future to this.

We actually have to take samples from the surgical bed, what's left behind in the patient, and then send those bits to the pathology lab.

The fulcrum evaluates for femoral stress fractures.

The fulcrum test evaluates for femoral stress fractures.

The death of Little Nell and Cordelia and all that sort of stuff just doesn't happen anymore.

It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Can I look at the fast?

Let's flip the table yet again

Really?

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

Test for what?

And let me begin with one example.

We give them some insight into what choices they can make, what actions they can take.

I'm gonna call Dan Gilmore at the CDC and arrange blood tests for everyone on the hill.

Most of this is in developing countries, and the majority is in Africa.