Space 3D co-host Eleanor speaks with NASA Medical Advising Professor Charles Doarn on Space Health and Medicine. Topics covered include design and history of space station Freedom, inpatient versus outpatient medicine in the Crew Healthcare system, mission duration planning in US versus Russia, the problem with antigravity surgical theaters, physician astronauts, emergency medical evacuations and more!

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Adapted from the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center Health News, published 3/1/2017:

Charles Doarn, a recognized national and international leader in telemedicine as a scholar and teacher, served as the principle author of NASA’s Integrated Strategic Plan for Telemedicine. He currently serves as executive secretary of the Multilateral Medical Policy Board for the International Space Sta ...