We’re deep in course-planning mode here at Arts Practica, creating an all-online iteration of Looking with Uncertainty for the first time. While there is absolutely no substitute to the learning that can happen in up-close experiences in person with art, on the flip side we can now engage learners in interactions with collections all over […]Continue Reading
30JunNow Is A Good Time To Look At This Work Of Art. Join Me
On Thursday, July 2, at 1EST, I will be hosting a 1-hour session to encounter this work of art in a small group. Sign up here. — It’s a powerful thing when a work of art made in the past interacts with the present with authority, love, and wisdom. Sometimes works of art almost have […]Continue Reading
22OctSmart in Medicine – my talk at #DotMD19
What a joy to speak last month at dotMD, an annual festival of medical curiosity in Galway. DotMD is stirring the soup for a particularly critical community of practitioners, creatives, and leaders in medicine. This talk felt like putting into a nutshell the last two decades of teaching, research, and obsessively observing that rare breed […]Continue Reading
31JulWho is the real Amazon Alexa? A handy table to help you decide for yourself.
When I was growing up, no one had heard of my name. On the first day of school, the teacher would usually stumble over it. Alex? Alexis? Now when my name comes up, people either stifle a laugh or their stereo turns on. My close friends still act like it’s a non-issue, which is really […]Continue Reading
26NovLooking with Uncertainty
Uncertainty is a fact of life in medicine. Navigating it may be the most important and complex task clinicians encounter in their daily work. My teaching practice has allowed me the privilege of working with great clinicians and clinical teachers over the better part of two decades. Through this work I have noticed that masterful […]Continue Reading
02NovRegarding Hollywood: Bioethicists, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and a Bookend on Time
Wait, what is that you say, medical people going to art museums as part of their medical meeting experience? Why yes OF COURSE they should get all up close with art because how better to learn about the key capacities and tendencies at play in every interaction in medicine: the capacities and tendencies of oneself, […]Continue Reading
24MayGrand Rounds at Maine Medical Center: The Art of Uncertainty
Last week I presented a General Medicine Grand Rounds at Maine Medical Center. The talk posed a nice opportunity to write up some of my more recent work on clinical uncertainty and key principles for managing it, gleaned in arts experiences. Take a look: Clinical uncertainty is a difficult topic. More often than not, we are on […]Continue Reading
06JunThree “Aha’s” from Internal Medicine 2016 Course at the National Gallery
Last month, it was my privilege to organize a course for Internal Medicine 2016, in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Gallery, and with Harvard Medical School’s Joel Katz, MD, and Shahram Khoshbin, MD. Together, we spent the better part of a day with almost eighty caregivers working to build skill and […]Continue Reading
27AprNew Read on Visual Intelligence
When I saw the coverage of Amy Herman’s work in the NYT this morning, I stopped what I was doing. I even stopped my kids from what they were doing, which was a good thing because my one-year-old was putting some pretty interesting things into the toilet at the time. Amy, who helps law enforcement […]Continue Reading
13JanBeyond Bearhunting
Joseph Wright of Derby, Antigonus in the Storm, 1734-1797. Art Gallery of Ontario. There is a bear in this picture. If you can’t see it, that’s ok, I can’t either (and I’ve been squinting at it for a good five minutes), but I know it’s there because I beheld the original painting at the Art […]Continue Reading
