Connection can settle easily: 1 Setting down your cell phone 2 Expressing a gratitude 3 Sharing the best part of your day with someone you love. Result: 1 Strengthen our connection 2 Lets us live longer 3 Reduces our anxiety and depression.

“Social isolation increases our risk of death by 32%”! Wow, that means the Pandemic has had a greater toll on people worldwide than most of us realize. Thanks for a delightful talk. ❤️

I love the tie ins to your physical vision. My mom's vision is impaired. Your talk helped me to understand her disability AND see how it's affecting her figurative vision.

Excellent analogies with a higher message. The beginning was tense and overly practiced, killing the appearance of organic release, but every word and all connective ideas were understandable. As the message evolved, bringing intellect down and raising up the heart of WE, I knew I heard an excellent speech.

What a wonderful talk. I think millions need to see this. Thanks for your time and interest in all of us folks.

Starla. An amazing talk, and presented with love and emotion. Thank you for being who you are. I am honored and privileged to work with you.

I'm seeing this for a school assignment and I'm glad I was able to see this.

I am a patient of Dr. Halpern and saw you one time. You stayed late to look at my eye when I started breaking out with shingles close to my eye. I could tell right away that you were a very caring person. I really appreciate your video on changing the way we look at people.

Sometimes i feel like my thoughts are not worth sharing. I am so alone because of that. People accept only what they want to hear but not what they need to hear. How i speak became more important than what i tell. We are not expressing anything about ourselves. We are just ACTING. We act like students, dentists, teachers, presidents... Everyone is asleep on their dream of reality. They are not feeling, they are JUST acting...

Stumbled across your presentation Starla, and really pleased that I did. In my work, I talk about people "Dying to be heard, literally and metaphorically". My sense is that what we are missing, is being heard, or as you rightly saying, being seen clearly. In spite of the tidal wave towards technically connecting, I, like you, are going against it to get others to see and hear each other more clearly, more deeply, more whole heartedly. Thank you.

In so far as the enlightenment that I got from the message: I see you and that we should really see and connect with others, we should also at the same time be mindful of the people who are truly a**holes and there's no point in connecting with them.... It's best in our interest to cut off relationships with such people to better our lives unless we are the Buddha!

Fabulous TED Talk! I really enjoyed it and I needed to hear it TODAY. More please!

What an amazing commentary. Great words.

Dr. Starla Fitch, you're a wonderful soul!

I've watched this multiple times and enjoy it more each time. What a great difference we'd make in patient safety and quality improvement if we worked on connecting more. Connecting would flatten out some of the authority gradient that ends up harming patients. Win. Win. Thank you for your beautiful message. We all benefit from you sharing your gift with the world.

Dr. Fitch thank you for this inspirational speech “I see you.”

Love this talk Dr. Starla. Thank you for helping us "see" each other, the power of connection, and the humanity in all of us. Love the work you're doing--in and out of medicine--and can't help but smile every time I see or hear from you. Thanks for sharing the love! xo

A very to the heart talk Starla. Thank you for pointing out a few things to me within your talk. Its funny when you know something deep down but when its brought to light your eyes truly are opened. You have a calming voice and will look forward to hearing more from you, Starla.

Thank you

WOW!! Simple concept yet so very profound. Thank you, Starla :-)

This is a very thoughtful and important speech

Excellent presentation! This is very inspiring and perfectly presented! I just started reading your book, "Remedy for Burnout: 7 Prescriptions Doctors Use to Find Meaning in Medicine." Also excellent! Thanks for all you do!

Fantastic job, Starla. I love the use of personal stories combined with how those in your stories were seeing others in relation to the various eye conditions you see everyday... really got your point across!

Such a beautiful talk. I am so glad that you are doing this work in the world with medical professionals, who provide such critical care for us when we most need it. Great job!

Just beautiful story.

Dr. Fitch this is a powerful talk!!! I appreciate you and the way you utilized different eye disorders as a visual to help people understand how the way a person views a situation can interrupt their perception. I going to share this with everyone I know!!!

Thank you for sending me this video. I love you ❤️ God

Well done speech

Loved the creative intertwining of vision and personal connection and gratitude to create understanding on an emotional level.

What a fantastic talk! I really enjoyed this, Dr Fitch. Keep up the strong work:)

We all live in this world for a short time. I think we should take the middle road and be not to closed or too open. Personally, I have always been an open person until I started growing up seeing how people judge you and can advantage of things you say.

Well done, great message. Found you and this via Twitter, well worth the time to watch. Thank you!

Great Talk!

Courageous and touching, Starla. In my own work as a Coach to healthcare professionals, I often wonder how doctors lost control of healthcare, and how we can get it back. I think at least part of the solution has to do with building real community in which we put our relationships with patients and each other ahead of the usual parochial considerations that have traditionally kept us divided. Thanks for what you do; I think it's great.

Great presentation. Thanks Starla :-)

After hearing this TED talk, I actually feel like together, we can change the world!! Dr. Starla Fitch encourages us to REALLY see each other, and I for one will be looking to connect to others EVERYDAY! Kudos on an EXCELLENT PRESENTATION!!

Great video Dr Fitch! I appreciate the stats, the emphasis on the value of social connection and love the stories! I'm all about social connection and also actively facilitate it, so I really look forward to sharing this with my community. As a nutritionist I help people with social anxiety and introversion overcome their anxiety with some key nutrients and thereby become more socially connected. I'm South African and really enjoyed the sawubona "I see you" mention!

Great talk and may I also say how much I appreciate the positive comments on this chat, keep it up, everyone. Cheers, Dermot-The Celtic Coach

Thanks Starla for sharing such an important message. Your wit, humor and compassion are appreciated and so well delivered. Continue the good work and so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with you as we continue to "Love Medicine Again" You're the best, Marla

Supper awesome and inspiring

Starla...that was beautiful! I wish I'd gotten to know you at CK's events. You are a beautiful soul... Two of my sisters have retinitis pigmentosa...and yet their attitudes about it are remarkable. Thank you for being you. xo

Excellent presentation! Your presentation changed life for many people including me! Thank you.

Wonderful and inspiring, Dr. Fitch. Relationships are key to our very survival and you have shared wonderful examples that speak to our inter-professional and therapeutic relationships. I AGREE and our entire healthcare system will benefit if we focus more on this tough-to-measure yet powerful truth! I cringed at the flashing lights....I'm just saying!

This talk couldn't be more accurate during this made time

that was beautiful maam... :)

This is powerful and a very poignant message----a call to truly see each other.

she really had 2020 vision.

Sawubona everyone!

Sawubona: I see you (Zulu Language; the way of greeting)

That 80,000,000 number is staggering and sad. I bet most people assume people they see have friends. I don't see tech changing so people connect more, but hope it does soon.

I see you. Thank you.

Why wasn't a biopsy done on Mary prior diagnosing the lesion on her eyelid as a carcinoma and scheduling surgery?

Sikhona people!

8:42

I am so thankful to have come across this!!!!

She would be excellent to work for. A boss like her I'd bring the coffee pot! Write the list during coffee breaks.

Sawubona. This was so great talk about gratitude. I hope that many people will see this. Thank you so much 🙏

I am so proud of you Dr, not because I am from South Africa but, for researching linking the Zulu connotation to your speech- The Rugby world Cup champions salutes you

Joe???? JOEEE MAMA

I'll most likely die alone, with no one, no partner, nothing. Cause i have serious issues in connecting with people, i dont even think im shy i just cant seem to open up properly to anyone. Im focusing right now on saving my money cause i've got a house left to me; so i'll just spend my days drinking here and there. Sometimes when i'll feel like it i may jump on the PlayStation, work on Star Citizen (im 100% sure that game will be released if i reach old age). Other days i may get my drawings out, i like to draw video game characters and iconic movie stars. A big hobby i like to do is put a classic sci fi or action movie on, like the Matrix, pause it at the point of a key action scene, like the bullett time when he does that dive, or the lobby shootout scene, when Neo and Trinity shooting all those guns and doing mad flips and stuff in slow-motion. I'll pause it at a nice angle and try to sketch that scene and capture that cool motion the character is in. In my loneliness i'll just shut myself off and focus on perfecting my drawings of these key scenes, and create my own folder of my best drawings. These will all be my own little goals to reach and complete, if i can achieve them i'll know atleast ive done something and progressed within myself. I may not have a degree from Uni in Art school etc. But i'll have my own work and then when i die i'll just have it all buried with me. My best drawings, my games consoles and all my games, my Xenomorph and Star Wars collector's figures they can all be buried with me. Cause whats the point in me leaving them behind somewhere? I dont have anyone to leave them to cause i havnt connected with anyone.

This content reflects insightful depth. A book I read with like-minded themes altered my life's course. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

what a gem, and 7 years old and still means a lot.

Wait, I missed the humor and saw only the sad cancer stuff and the sweet heartwarming stuff. Was there jokes in this?

no

I have no one

I'm the 100th comment...

25 mins is long? My doctor has you wait 1 hour.

The 10 commandments are based on our relationship with God and with each other. God used his infinite mind to come up with 10 irrevocable, irrefutable laws of life. And they are all based on relationships.

The speech is good but I don't think that connection is just about mentioning 3 good things about a person ... I feel like Joe the scrub tech needed someone to see his unhappiness with clear vision and just ask ... I guarantee that if just one of the crew did that on a breakfast break or whatever you'd ve all known his pain and fears and connected way better ... We are all having this issue where ppl see something wrong with someone they know and just don't do much ... I wish we get better at that and may be the world could make life worthwhile

Who else doing this for English

G i l f

Pretensioius.

Did you put a curse on me?

Human relationships are overrated,most people are a pain in the ass whether it is your partner,boss,schoolmate or coworkers.I find most people boring and fucking annoying.

people with glasses ;-;

Joe Mama

whOs wAtChiNg duRinG qUArAntinE

Who else got assigned this bs?