Medical Blogging and Podcasting: Fad or the Future of Medicine?
What is blogging and podcasting and how is changing the landscape of medicine for providers, hospitals, and patients; Dr. Bottles will explain how your organization can best utilize these new, powerful technologies.

Feedback for Personal Growth and Happiness
Learning only occurs when timely, accurate, and insightful feedback is provided and internalized. This presentation presents ways to both give and receive feedback that actually promotes growth and happiness, not denial and conflict.

Religion and Science: Friend or Foe?
Although we often think of the spiritual and the scientific as unrelated disciplines, advances in brain imaging have resulted in exciting new insights into how religious beliefs can affect health. Does praying change brain waves?

How Your Brain Works: A 21st Century Update
Recent advances in our understanding of neurosciences challenge our traditional views of emotion, personality, the unconscious, the brain as a computer, and how decisions get made.

100 Years of Medical Science: From Snake Oil to the Gene for Love
The fascinating and sometimes scandalous history of the last one hundred years of medical science. The development of the bio-medical model and its triumphs and shortcomings are discussed. Should a new model of health and happiness emerge?

How Can Healthcare Leaders Plan When We Are All So Confused?
There is no doubt that the healthcare environment is rapidly changing, confusing, and uncertain. There is also no doubt that we still have to lead and plan and respond to crises. This lecture describes strategies that leaders can use for dealing with uncertain times.

The Evolving Doctor/Patient Relationship for the 21st Century
The development of empowered patients downloading information from the Internet and chatting in disease specific chat rooms with others who suffer from the same ailment has transformed the doctor/patient relationship. Some say this transformation is the best thing to ever happen to medicine; others bemoan the loss of trust and closeness. Can both views be right?

Nature vs. Nurture: Does Genomics Provide An Answer to This Centuries Old Question?
Has this philosophical question that has inspired thinkers for centuries been settled once and for all by the results of the human genome project? And what does the answer mean for personalized medicine?

Leaders Who Listen to Ants and Chaos
Complexity theory has revealed profound truths about how leaderless systems in nature achieve orderly results and growth. Can you apply some of these natural secrets to your organization?

What the Public Really Wants From Hospitals and Physicians: Quality, Kindness, and Accountability
The chasm between the public and providers continues to widen with reports of uneven quality in the healthcare delivery system. Can healthcare providers achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace by actually listening to what patients want?

The Ideal Physician for the 21st Century
William Osler is often held up as the ideal physician for the early 20th century. The 21st century demands competencies from physicians that were unheard of in Osler's days. Who is the ideal physician for the 21st century?