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Duke employees join football coach David Cutcliffe to explain the importance of a team effort when it comes to stopping flu. Join thousands of Duke students, faculty and staff this flu season and get a free flu vaccination to protect yourself and your team.

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Dr. Robert K Kamei, Director for Academic Medicine Education Institute (AM•EI) and Vice Dean, Education for Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, speaking at the Launch of Academic Medicine Education Institute (AM•EI) on Thursday, September 6th 2012.

Dr. Ranjan Sudan, vice chair of education for the Department of Surgery, and surgical education research fellow Dr. Brandon Henry demonstrated Duke's new da Vinci computer trainer. The simulator allows surgeons to hone their skills without having to book time on heavily used clinical machines, Sudan said.

Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together The diagnosis is prostate cancer. The patient, overwhelmed by the bad news, has to figure out the relative pros and cons of surgery, radiation and 'watchful waiting'. The young woman is in a persistent vegetative state. Her parents decide that it is time to take her off the ventilator that is keeping her alive. But her doctor refuses. The operation will slow the patient's death, not cure her. Partway through the procedure, her surgeon realizes that removing her throat tumor will leave her without speech but that halting the surgery will expose her to infection. Should he continue to operate? What are the best medical choices for these people? For us? Who should be making these critical decisions? Health care has come a long way since the days when doctors withheld bad news and made every decision in patient treatment. In today's world of "patient empowerment," patients have been told they hold all the cards. But even if that were true (and it's not!), most wouldn't know how to play them anyway. In this book I show how hidden dynamics in the doctor/patient relationship keep us, and our loved ones, from making the best medical choices. From doctors who struggle to explain, to patients who fail to properly listen, countless factors alter the course of our care, causing things to go seriously awry. I discuss how patients and doctors can learn to become partners, and work together to make the right choices. From whether to get surgery to deciding whether the side effects of a blood pressure medication are worth the trouble, we can discover the tools to improve communication, understand the issues, and make confident decisions for our future health and happiness.

Watch the bloopers (behind-the-scenes) edition of "Bob Gets Buckets Too" ! Prof Robert Kamei, Vice Dean of Education gets buckets at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School! Original Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1v0tU886c&list=PLA0FF1443F1D600AE&index=1&feature=plpp_video

The benefits of breast milk for baby health have long been appreciated, but now researchers at Duke University Medical Center are learning some of the reasons why.

A new Duke study finds that mother's milk causes essential bacteria in baby's digestive tract to grow in a way that is more beneficial to baby's health than the bacterial growth caused by infant formulas.