Dr. Jim Yong Kim

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Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of Dartmouth College

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    1. SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/09/2011 04:29 PM Report

      So folks from South Korea are visiting him to learn about creativity through Liberal Arts?

      Hmm . . .

      Charlie, it looks like it is time for a panel on creativity.

      We have your show from the Brain Series:

      http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11264

      Then we have Thomas Friedman telling us everyone has to be creative now:

      "We live in an age when the most valuable asset any economy can have is the ability to be creative — to spark and imagine new ideas, be they Broadway tunes, great books, iPads or new cancer drugs. And where does creativity come from?

      I like the way Newsweek described it in a recent essay on creativity: 'To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result).'

      And where does divergent thinking come from? It comes from being exposed to divergent ideas and cultures and people and intellectual disciplines.”

      Then Tavis Smiley was told during his visit to China that we are more creative but less intelligent:

      Student 15: Last year I’ve been to two American middle schools. They are friends, middle schools, of our school, and I think, no offense, but they are creative but less intelligent.

      http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/china-%E2%80%93-education/

      Then we were told, 'China needs to reform their education because they don’t have the creativity they need.'

      http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11915

      So a panel on creativity and probably also include protecting intellectual property. Because, hey--why be creative when you can just steal someone's work?

    2. blank  10/07/2011 09:26 PM Report

      "taking great technology, and making sure that you can deliver it to the people, and also you do things like prevention, you help people be healthier overall"

      also that's funny below

      "I have yet, however, to see butternut squash leaping off supermarket shelves."

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/06/2011 10:38 PM Report

      Charlie, this guy is amazing:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Yong_Kim#Personal_life

      Immigrant

      Valedictorian

      President of his Class

      Played both quarterback for the football team and point guard on the basketball team

      M.D. & Ph.D. from the experimental MD/PhD program in the social sciences

      Look out Ivy League, Dr. Kim may be the first but he sure ain't the last.

    4. SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/06/2011 09:14 PM Report

      Yes indeedy, what question should you ask Charlie at the Republican debates?

      Of course, you have to ask about the economy as he says.

      So how do you ask a question to get an intelligent answer when the mandate is to get rid of Obama and keep taxes low for the rich (sorry I mean job creators)?

      Health care is the correct topic as you two discussed. However, you can not ask "what do the candidates think about health care?" That question is way too simple.

      The Republicans will just go on and on about the free market and how we bring prices down with more competition.

      So here is the question for you Charlie, "The free market is not working because it focuses on profit--not prevention which lowers profits. The best health care is an ounce of prevention to a pound of cure (16 to 1 ratio). So the free market does not work in this situation--that is a given and where you start. What do you do Mr. Republican candidate to bring health care costs down on the prevention side of the equation?

      (By the way, this is what the Affordable Health Care Act is supposed to be doing now.)

    5. SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/06/2011 06:37 PM Report

      Charlie, you asked about the Global 5 but I didn't get them.

      Lately, when you ask your guests for a list of something we never get the list. The conversation jumps to something else. It may work to stimulate their thought but I want the list.

      ??? Global 5: Aids, Malaria, Heart Disease, Diabetes and TB?????

    6. REMant  10/06/2011 11:15 AM Report

      Not just Dartmouth, but all the colleges I'm aware of, half a century ago had guest lecturer and artist programs that far exceed what I believe is the norm on college campuses today. Dr Kim began by saying what the Western nations found in the 19th c, that healthcare is mainly a matter of simple sanitation. It has been precisely the breakdown of that in the 3d world by the forces of "progress," which has been condemned its critics. And yet, under Mr Rose's urging, Kim ends up arguing that we need more money for research, reversing himself yet again, by saying that we don't teach enough about public health in our medical schools. But selling prevention has in fact become something of a racket, which you can discover for yourself by subscribing to one of the newsletters on the subject and seeing how many other such subscription offers you immediately receive. I have yet, however, to see butternut squash leaping off supermarket shelves.