![]() Further increasing calories, or GDP, at an exponential rate, inevitably causes immense problems. But if the medical profession decides, based on this positive track record, that amount of calories is the best indicator for health, we have a problem. And a gradual increase may do some good for a long time. The patient grows stronger and more resilient with more calories. “Imagine a doctor prescribing a high calorie intake diet to a malnourished patient. Dirk Philipsen at the Food for Thought workshopĭirk Philipsen introduced the audience to the shortcomings of using GDP as a performance metric by narrating the story of the ‘Calories Doctor’: Titled SEED- Smart Economics for the Environment and human Development- this project involves community members from diverse backgrounds in helping design economic performance indicators that actually promote sustainable and equitable development, rather than merely document indiscriminate economic output.ĭr. Their research is a part of the Kenan Creative Collaboratory project. Director at the Center for Competitive Economics at Kenan Institute explore and question the fundamentals of GDP based economic growth and other existing economic indicators while proposing alternative methods to measure growth and prosperity. Dirk Philipsen, an economic historian and Senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University (and author of The Little Big Number – How GDP Came to Rule the World, Princeton 2015), and Brent Lane, the Exec. Since its inception during the Great Depression in the United States, this microeconomics term has become the standard for measuring the economic prosperity of a country.īut, does it really matter? How do we know that we are on the right track while determining a country’s growth on this measure?ĭr. My hope is that ARDEO encourages other health care practitioners to do the same.If one were to pose this question to a randomly picked subset of people from all over the world, there is a high possibility of receiving answers centered around the term ‘GDP’, or the Gross Domestic Product. This aspect of caring for the whole person is something that I see happening at the Burn Center. As I watched her health care team attend to the needs of her body, I longed for them to address her psychological health: how this injury would shift who she is in the world. Her entire world was changed by this injury and she is now incapacitated. ![]() She worked for many years as a nurse and was injured by a patient. My interest in narrative medicine began as I watched my mother recover from multiple back surgeries. This weekend, I'm excited to share my new play, ARDEO, a one act play inspired by research and personal narratives of health practitioners and patients at UNC-CH’s North Carolina’s Jaycee Burn Center. This play explores how patients and doctors communicate with each other how health practitioners communicate with the public and how theatre artists can be of service to patients, doctors and the larger public. F rom the perspective of scientists and medical providers, the involvement of the dramatic arts represents a unique opportunity to appreciate the meaning of one’s work and to gain new insights and perspectives regarding its relevance. Narrative medicine not only serves the public health sector and works to improve the effectiveness of care, but it also offers as a healing tool for patients in recovery. ![]()
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