From Patient to Physician: Trading Places NORTHAMPTON | ACCESSWIRE | September 26, 2022 | Bristol Myers Squibb Company: At Bristol Myers Squibb, Global Patient Week stands as a pinnacle of our year-round vision to transform patients'' lives through science, bringing together our more than 32,000 employees around the world to celebrate the individuals we work each day to serve. This year, in collaboration with the patient advocacy groups we partner with, we asked a few of our Leadership Team members to share their perspectives on how the work their teams are leading impacts lives around the world. Medical knowledge keeps accelerating exponentially, according to a widely cited study from the National Institutes of Health. In 1950, medical knowledge was estimated to double every 50 years. But by 1980 it doubled every seven years, and by 2010, every 3.5 years. By 2020 the collective universe of medical knowledge - all the available information accumulated across time about diseases and therapies