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said America hello everyone so my name
is Miriam and I was born here in Dubai
in 1982 in a beautiful hospital called
al maktoum Hospital al maktoum Hospital
was not only the first hospital and
Dubai but also one of the oldest
hospitals and the United Arab Emirates
the reason I’m talking about it is that
I believe that a lot of what we do as
humans is related to our well-being when
when the when it comes to infrastructure
design buildings and the facilities that
we are and Maktoum hospital was designed
in 1915 funnily as I went through my
career and my internship in my residency
I ended up working there and later on if
we are to look at the future of Al
Maktoum hospital right now it’s going to
be converted into a museum a museum to
help people reconnect with heritage with
their journeys of healthcare and with
storytelling
very much like my story when I started
my practice I started as a family doctor
and right now I’m designing spaces for
people to help them reconnect with
themselves to help them reconnect with
their states of well-being and by design
by furniture and architecture but that’s
about me I’m here to talk to you to you
guys today about the future of
well-being and I don’t think that we can
talk about the future without looking at
the past
His Highness Sheikh Zayed muscle fan
anion may he rest in peace has a very
famous quote that is one of my favorite
quotes and he says that in order for you
to create the present and the future
that you desire you must be able to look
at the past thoroughly and learn from it
so the importance of looking into the
past is something that we hold dearly on
as you might know this is the year of
chef diet and actually yesterday we
celebrated the hundredth anniversary of
his birth so let me take you down memory
lane 2002 2002 I was just practicing my
internship after a very long shift
probably 22 hours in ready to leave just
a couple more hours before I have to
head home and just you know relax
um I was there in the hospital waiting
for my ship to end it’s kind of
exhausted when I got a call from my
first on-call doctor who’s the doctor in
charge telling me that I need to scrub
in so there I was getting really excited
but not really because I have scrubbed
in in many operations before but I never
were was invited to assist so he tells
me you are going to be assisting I got
really excited it’s like it wasn’t like
I had spent the last 22 hours on my feet
it felt like I just got there so for you
for those of you who are in the medical
industry probably you probably know that
being cold – your first operations
assistant is a big deal so I rushed to
the changing room as I was coming in I
saw one of the nurses leaving the
hospital she was finishing her shift and
I asked her how many how many operations
do we still have going on and she went
like just the one just the amputation I
was shocked so I guess this is gonna be
my first operation to assist in an ask
you tation I was actually kind of stuck
and it’s a few interesting feelings
there was excitement I was proud that
the doctor thought that you know I could
assist and on this but then at the same
time I was terrified and I was trying to
remember who was it from my patients
that I admitted last week or so that
might be going through this procedure
and I remembered a few patients a lot of
them diabetic I remember it’s one
gentleman specifically he was 43 years
old and he wasn’t he wasn’t the happy
patient no not a lot of patients are
when they visit us in the hospital but
him specifically
I remember him being really sad and
burdened by his illness he had a lot of
foot ulcers and we admitted to him to
the wart
so I didn’t really get a chance to see
him after we admitted him but what
happened was that he has case
deteriorated his blood sugar was not
regulated and I remember during the week
hearing little bits of information about
him from the doctors and their morning
rounds saying things like he’s a
hopeless case he never really took his
medications he doesn’t have the support
system no one has ever there with him
from his family that was a sad thing to
see but really I was I was thinking how
will he feel after the operation so I
walked in the operation was a blur it
was great it was a success medically
speaking we it was perfect there was
there were no complications no
side-effects but I remember leaving the
hospital after that shift a very long
maybe 26 hour shifts or more going back
home and thinking that we have failed we
have failed as humans we have failed as
society we have failed us healthcare as
patients as an ecosystem and this
happened right at the beginning of my
healthcare career so it really was a
stop for me to kind of stop and have a
look at what is happening how might we
have saved that patients like that was
back in 2002 currently the statistics
are every 30 seconds there’s an
amputation happening in the world
because of the diabetic foot so yes we
have we did go further with technology
with knowledge with healthcare all
around the world here in the Dubai and
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates we did
we did exceptionally well when it comes
to control
diabetes but all around the world
globally there this is still happening
patients are still losing their legs so
I asked to talk about the future you
guys probably known or heard about all
the exceptional things happening in the
world when it comes to AI electro
medical medical records AM are
connecting everyone through blockchain
even genetically clipping off that gene
that kind of helps you stop the illness
from happening and all those other
things that the world is working on
there beautiful you know you can be a
patient sitting at home having access to
your doctor through tele communication
you get your appointment you move
forward oh that’s the hospital you move
forward or not
anyways so that could be the case that
could very well be the case the patient
could have it’s all connected lis by by
being connected to his doctors virtually
by is being connected to his medical
records by getting sensors that give him
feedback on what’s happening on with his
blood pressure blood sugar if we were to
talk about that patient just give him
the knowledge and the awareness that he
needs if that was indeed what he needed
but we can also have a patient who is
sitting in his office eating as he wants
putting on weight having access to his
insulin pump and changing his
medications accordingly but not really
actively being involved in his health
care and well-being so how I see the
future of health health and well-being
to be is that you we globally need to
look at the patient holistically we need
to look at the patient’s experience
holistically so it starts with the
facilities the facility
didn’t need to be welcoming okay
the facilities need to be welcoming they
need to have that friendliness that
atmosphere of inviting a patient and
hospitals are no longer going to be
hospitals they will be more of a social
support network doctors are not going to
be doctors they are going to be health
advisors patients are not going to feel
dependent on someone else to tell them
how to to deal with their health care
but they will be empowered they will
have the knowledge the knowledge is
already there but they will also have
the tools that can help them make
healthier choices and us as a society
and as humans we will have the ecosystem
where we can all connect to each other
connecting well-being to healthcare
socially emotionally mentally
financially economically and all the
ways possible you cannot separate health
care from education you cannot separate
health care from the finance sector you
cannot separate health care from society
so the only way for us to move forward
as a humanity and to succeed is to bring
in all those elements together where the
society comes together the social
support the the fitness elements the
food elements the farming you’re gonna
hear a lot of people talking to you
today about a I am blockchain and
financing and social entrepreneurship
all of this needs to come together for
the patient’s experience and the
patient’s well-being so how I see the
future and how healthcare will benefit
indeed with AI and with all the new
technologies out there with the genetic
Clipper and others but also by
empowering the client and the patient to
have an equal relationship with him with
his healthcare providers and with a
society thank you
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said America hello everyone so my name
is Miriam and I was born here in Dubai
in 1982 in a beautiful hospital called
al maktoum Hospital al maktoum Hospital
was not only the first hospital and
Dubai but also one of the oldest
hospitals and the United Arab Emirates
the reason I’m talking about it is that
I believe that a lot of what we do as
humans is related to our well-being when
when the when it comes to infrastructure
design buildings and the facilities that
we are and Maktoum hospital was designed
in 1915 funnily as I went through my
career and my internship in my residency
I ended up working there and later on if
we are to look at the future of Al
Maktoum hospital right now it’s going to
be converted into a museum a museum to
help people reconnect with heritage with
their journeys of healthcare and with
storytelling
very much like my story when I started
my practice I started as a family doctor
and right now I’m designing spaces for
people to help them reconnect with
themselves to help them reconnect with
their states of well-being and by design
by furniture and architecture but that’s
about me I’m here to talk to you to you
guys today about the future of
well-being and I don’t think that we can
talk about the future without looking at
the past
His Highness Sheikh Zayed muscle fan
anion may he rest in peace has a very
famous quote that is one of my favorite
quotes and he says that in order for you
to create the present and the future
that you desire you must be able to look
at the past thoroughly and learn from it
so the importance of looking into the
past is something that we hold dearly on
as you might know this is the year of
chef diet and actually yesterday we
celebrated the hundredth anniversary of
his birth so let me take you down memory
lane 2002 2002 I was just practicing my
internship after a very long shift
probably 22 hours in ready to leave just
a couple more hours before I have to
head home and just you know relax
um I was there in the hospital waiting
for my ship to end it’s kind of
exhausted when I got a call from my
first on-call doctor who’s the doctor in
charge telling me that I need to scrub
in so there I was getting really excited
but not really because I have scrubbed
in in many operations before but I never
were was invited to assist so he tells
me you are going to be assisting I got
really excited it’s like it wasn’t like
I had spent the last 22 hours on my feet
it felt like I just got there so for you
for those of you who are in the medical
industry probably you probably know that
being cold – your first operations
assistant is a big deal so I rushed to
the changing room as I was coming in I
saw one of the nurses leaving the
hospital she was finishing her shift and
I asked her how many how many operations
do we still have going on and she went
like just the one just the amputation I
was shocked so I guess this is gonna be
my first operation to assist in an ask
you tation I was actually kind of stuck
and it’s a few interesting feelings
there was excitement I was proud that
the doctor thought that you know I could
assist and on this but then at the same
time I was terrified and I was trying to
remember who was it from my patients
that I admitted last week or so that
might be going through this procedure
and I remembered a few patients a lot of
them diabetic I remember it’s one
gentleman specifically he was 43 years
old and he wasn’t he wasn’t the happy
patient no not a lot of patients are
when they visit us in the hospital but
him specifically
I remember him being really sad and
burdened by his illness he had a lot of
foot ulcers and we admitted to him to
the wart
so I didn’t really get a chance to see
him after we admitted him but what
happened was that he has case
deteriorated his blood sugar was not
regulated and I remember during the week
hearing little bits of information about
him from the doctors and their morning
rounds saying things like he’s a
hopeless case he never really took his
medications he doesn’t have the support
system no one has ever there with him
from his family that was a sad thing to
see but really I was I was thinking how
will he feel after the operation so I
walked in the operation was a blur it
was great it was a success medically
speaking we it was perfect there was
there were no complications no
side-effects but I remember leaving the
hospital after that shift a very long
maybe 26 hour shifts or more going back
home and thinking that we have failed we
have failed as humans we have failed as
society we have failed us healthcare as
patients as an ecosystem and this
happened right at the beginning of my
healthcare career so it really was a
stop for me to kind of stop and have a
look at what is happening how might we
have saved that patients like that was
back in 2002 currently the statistics
are every 30 seconds there’s an
amputation happening in the world
because of the diabetic foot so yes we
have we did go further with technology
with knowledge with healthcare all
around the world here in the Dubai and
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates we did
we did exceptionally well when it comes
to control
diabetes but all around the world
globally there this is still happening
patients are still losing their legs so
I asked to talk about the future you
guys probably known or heard about all
the exceptional things happening in the
world when it comes to AI electro
medical medical records AM are
connecting everyone through blockchain
even genetically clipping off that gene
that kind of helps you stop the illness
from happening and all those other
things that the world is working on
there beautiful you know you can be a
patient sitting at home having access to
your doctor through tele communication
you get your appointment you move
forward oh that’s the hospital you move
forward or not
anyways so that could be the case that
could very well be the case the patient
could have it’s all connected lis by by
being connected to his doctors virtually
by is being connected to his medical
records by getting sensors that give him
feedback on what’s happening on with his
blood pressure blood sugar if we were to
talk about that patient just give him
the knowledge and the awareness that he
needs if that was indeed what he needed
but we can also have a patient who is
sitting in his office eating as he wants
putting on weight having access to his
insulin pump and changing his
medications accordingly but not really
actively being involved in his health
care and well-being so how I see the
future of health health and well-being
to be is that you we globally need to
look at the patient holistically we need
to look at the patient’s experience
holistically so it starts with the
facilities the facility
didn’t need to be welcoming okay
the facilities need to be welcoming they
need to have that friendliness that
atmosphere of inviting a patient and
hospitals are no longer going to be
hospitals they will be more of a social
support network doctors are not going to
be doctors they are going to be health
advisors patients are not going to feel
dependent on someone else to tell them
how to to deal with their health care
but they will be empowered they will
have the knowledge the knowledge is
already there but they will also have
the tools that can help them make
healthier choices and us as a society
and as humans we will have the ecosystem
where we can all connect to each other
connecting well-being to healthcare
socially emotionally mentally
financially economically and all the
ways possible you cannot separate health
care from education you cannot separate
health care from the finance sector you
cannot separate health care from society
so the only way for us to move forward
as a humanity and to succeed is to bring
in all those elements together where the
society comes together the social
support the the fitness elements the
food elements the farming you’re gonna
hear a lot of people talking to you
today about a I am blockchain and
financing and social entrepreneurship
all of this needs to come together for
the patient’s experience and the
patient’s well-being so how I see the
future and how healthcare will benefit
indeed with AI and with all the new
technologies out there with the genetic
Clipper and others but also by
empowering the client and the patient to
have an equal relationship with him with
his healthcare providers and with a
society thank you
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