Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 070

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We welcome Michelle Johnston to the LITFL team and she takes us to art school in her first post: the 70th Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five!

Lessons from Osler 004

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Osler teaches us to treat the patient, not the disease. Even if the patient is difficult.

The Art of Waiting Room Medicine part II

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The waiting room can be an amazing source of inspiration, and the Utopian College of Emergency Medicine embraces those that rise to the challenge of being creative during this period of reflection, contemplation and sheer boredom.

The Art of Waiting Room Medicine part I

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Spaces of waiting exist in each of our lives, sometimes quite literally (a doctor’s office, the ER), while at other times, they exist only in the abstract (waiting for a better time to come, for happiness, or love). The Waiting Room hovers somewhere between the concrete and the ephemera. Using the conventions and aesthetics of waiting rooms, I’ve created a space that is simultaneously real and unreal; a meditation on, and exploration of, time, waiting, and fate.

Leonardo Da Vinci first Anatomist

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Some time around 1505 both men were given the task of painting murals of great Florentine battles for the new Council Chamber of Florence. The two geniuses were to work on opposing walls. This project promised to give to the world a direct comparison of their skills and artistic approaches. To the misfortune of us all, neither of the men finished their proposed work. Leonardo’s was to depict the Florentine-led victory over Milan at ‘The Battle of Anghiari’.

Glove Art the competition

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What can you do with a medical glove…OK, after all the usual suggestions – we are left with ‘GloveArt’