Short answer: because creative skills are essential to successful medical practice; they are easily and authentically learned in art. See below for some key studies that inform my opinion that quality clinician attention may be healthcare’s greatest resource, and art has a role in the development of quality attention. Long answer: Watch a video of a panel […]Continue Reading
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08Aug“I didn’t know if we could fix it”
When I first heard of Karen Lee Sobol’s story of experimental treatment for a rare type of cancer, I simply could not imagine what she had been through. And when I learned that the disease was labeled “incurable”, I didn’t believe it at first. Her book, Twelve Weeks: An Artist’s Story of Cancer, Healing, and […]Continue Reading
