Compassion for Care and Health 2.0

whizky — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:11:00 GMT

Last monday I was fortunate to have a day off work, being able to watch the live streams of TEDxMaastricht, a very inspiring conference with very interesting, impressive and touching talks on the future of healthcare. Videos of this conference can be found here and here.

Salmaan Sana introduced the charter of Compassion for Care. He started his talk with the story of how he lost his initial enthusiasm for becoming a doctor, and how he lost himself in all kinds of international activities in the course of his medical study. He explained how he rediscovered his dream of becoming a doctor in Compassion for Care. He referred to the Golden Rule, that Karen Armstrong unearthed in her first TED talk as the common ground in every religion "Let's revive the Golden Rule", and the Charter for Compassion that follows through as she defended in her award winning TED talk of 2008. That is a really inspiring monologue:

Salmaan Sana's talk at TEDxMaastricht: