When art imitates medicine

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Humoural Theory

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Humoural Theory

You put that paintbrush where?

Art can teach us a lot about ourselves and the world and as doctors it can furnish us with invaluable insights.

Professor Candid’s latest book “Moments of Medicine” explores the intimate relationship between art and medicine.

Read on for the venerable professor’s foray into the diagnostic arts of art.

She went in for electrolysis and came out with a tattoo. Sometimes her life choices were less than optimal.
If you can, try to visit your patient at home. It can be very revealing. There may be a good reason why that  truculent teenager is vitamin D deficient and white as a sheet.
Sometimes a child comes into your consulting room and can look a bit off, not “quite right”. Never ignore your clinical intuition and never dismiss your gut feeling as a clinician.
Never forget that chronic low back pain can have a devastating effect on a patient’s mood. Pain isn’t just a peripheral neuropathy or a soft tissue injury, chronic pain is a central event.
Never underestimate man flu, the pain of a low grade pyrexia and a mild pharyngitis can be devastating.
Look, we’ve had a great therapeutic relationship over the years and we’ve built up the “trust fund” but how do I put this, you’re fat and narcissistic and you’ve got syphilis. Sorry!
Sometimes patients have to take responsibility and try harder. I mean you cant glug down two litres of iced coffee and a pack of Krispy Kremes and expect to have good sugars. Being good at something takes effort.

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