Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas

  • Verdi and Velázquez: Perceptive sensitization in clinical medical education

    Daniel V. SchidlowFlorence GeloPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States “Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell and know that by practice alone you can become expert.”—Sir William Osler (1849–1919) A group of third-year medical students enters the office, anxious to move on to the…