The visual and narrative arts can help physicians hone their observational skills — a critical expertise increasingly needed in today’s medicine, according to Caroline Wellbery, MD, PhD, a Georgetown University Medical Center family medicine professor. Her article was published in July 2015 in Academic Medicine. A release from the university notes that Dr. Wellbery explains… Continue reading The Arts Help Doctors Hone Their Observational Skills
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Can Arts, Crafts and Computer Use Preserve Your Memory?
People who participate in arts and craft activities and who socialize in middle and old age may delay the development in very old age of the thinking and memory problems that often lead to dementia, according to a new Mayo Clinic study published in the April 8TH, 2015 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal… Continue reading Can Arts, Crafts and Computer Use Preserve Your Memory?