Ideas change everything

Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill

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Siddhartha Mukherjee |

TED2015

• March 2015

Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.

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Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer physician and writer

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When he’s not ferreting out the links between stem cells and malignant blood disease, Siddhartha Mukherjee writes and lectures on the history (and future) of medicine.

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