Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Florence Gelo

  • 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…

  • The art of loss

    Florence GeloPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Three works by artist Deena Gu, All Alone, Blue and Blue, and Resurrection are examples of non-representational paintings in which an artist’s emotional journey was embodied in paint. All Alone greets me with the quiet dignity and loneliness familiar to those who’ve ever harbored a shattered heart. It is a hazy…