Help Wanted: Artists to Create Miracles Health Care Advice

Help Wanted: Artists to Create Miracles

And.er…uh….just where are these miracles going to come from?

Another clinical study? A deeper dive into EHRs? More ‘command and control’ from quality assurance reviews? Another ‘gotcha’ hearing? Another malpractice trial?

I wonder about that a lot these days and sometimes I’m not optimistic because it seems intuitively obvious to me that we are not going to dig our way out of a hole by digging in the same hole faster, better or more efficiently.

We’re in need of radical solutions. I’ve been wondering about other approaches. Then I saw one. Quite unexpectedly from artists and musicians.

Huh?

Yes. Artists and musicians. Here is one, describing the contribution of composers, musicians and artists to our understanding of the brain and more…

WOW!

OK, so I knew that artists who first drew anatomical structures accelerated early medical education and eliminated myths about the nature of internal organs. I’d also heard about how a double helix appeared long before Watson and Crick— at the start of the Middle Ages, in fact, appearing in early in the Renaissance in 1400, apparently first designed by DaVinci and later built into cathedral windows and by 1519 was an actuality in a double-spiral staircase in the Chateau de Chambord in 1519.

Then, came this video.

I am a fan of TED meetings, its formats, the way the speakers ‘up their game’ year after year. Now it occurs to me that artists may be in touch with something that the rest of us in health care need.

If you like this one you’re sure to like others. is an easy site to access. Maybe one of the many other speakers will have useful insights for your arena of health care.

Heaven knows, we could use them.

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