Ok folks, I’m doing it. I’m stepping out of the postpartum cocoon. The New England Museum Association annual meeting starts tomorrow, and, excitingly, its focus is on museums and healthcare.  It’s a brave, provocative, data-listening choice on NEMA’s part to prioritize audiences in healthcare for this year’s theme. The trend of interactions between healthcare organizations […]Continue Reading

Greetings! Long time! And new educational offering alert! After a year of providing distance learning classes by request, I am proud to announce that ArtsPractica will offer its first proper distance learning course this summer! Yeah! Will you take this 90 second survey to help me gauge interest? And could you share it with colleagues who are […]Continue Reading

Last week, I was fortunate to present a workshop at the second annual DOTmed, a Dublin-based healthcare innovation conference like no other. DOTmed follows a fierce curiosity on the future of healthcare, with priorities rigorously routed in the innermost realities of the human condition. Organized by Drs. Ronan Kavanagh and Muiris Houston, DOTmed mixed a stiff […]Continue Reading

…That time is now. As someone deeply concerned with educational issues related to medical misdiagnosis, I always have my eye out for examples of logical thinking gone astray. A couple of weeks ago, one showed up in the New York Times, delivering with it one whopper of a judgment to the arts—and especially to art […]Continue Reading

Hi friends and colleagues, I’m excited to announce my upcoming workshop: The Art Practicum: Seeing in Uncertainty A Trans-professional Workshop for Clinicians and Science Educators Friday, October 25 (6-8pm), and Saturday, October 26 (8am – 3pm), 2013 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University An Art Practicum workshop with Boston Medical Center clinicians Art, science, and clinical […]Continue Reading

“The most commonly missed fracture in emergency medicine is the second one.” -Pat Croskerry, MD, PhD   Croskerry’s research describes many types of cognitive pitfalls in medicine. Many of them have to do with how we perform in a state of search. Failing to notice a patient’s second fracture is one such type, known as […]Continue Reading

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” – Fred Rogers When I saw that quote earlier today on Facebook, I was immediately grateful for it as a parent. My hope […]Continue Reading

What does it mean to really see a patient? This question drives the work of ArtsPractica, a medical education consultancy dedicated to improving the skills of diagnosis with arts learning. I have explored this question in collaboration with expert diagnosticians and in the arts. Seeing is about longitudinal skill development, multiple perspectives, suspending judgement, and metacognition. It is more […]Continue Reading

It’s been a happy and moving week in my world, full of reconnection with old souls and new kinds of feedback. This is because I finally started telling the truth. My high school alumni magazine was curious about Arts Practica, and, because they were most familiar with the 14-year old, braces-mouthed-nerd who hid out in […]Continue Reading