A new exhibit at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center draws on the themes of technology, medicine and ethics raised in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein.
The 2018 Medicine and the Muse symposium featured medical student performers who sang, played musical instruments, read original works, screened a film and showcased artwork.
Last week Nick Love, a third-year medical student, told me the story behind the art exhibit that he created for Stanford’s 200thanniversary celebration of Mary Shelley’s …
Artist Ted Meyer told me he doesn't mind that for decades he lived with a painful, deadly disease. The nationally recognized painter was born with …
I’m a freelance science writer adept at multitasking. But I feel like I’ve been sitting on both hands when I read the jam-packed resume of …
“Play all the musics. Climb all the things.” That was the last text Benjamin Robison received from his friend and fellow Stanford medical student Maria …
If someone accidentally wandered into a School of Medicine auditorium during parts of David Leventhal's address at the annual Stanford Medicine & the Muse event last …
As the mama of a toddler, I'm a first-rate color spotter. "Look!" I say enthusiastically. "Could you get the yellow cup?" Or the blue block, …
In a first-person piece in the winter issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, anesthesiologist and poet Audrey Shafer, MD, argues that the medical humanities are a necessary, …
Imagine your doctor told you at the end of an exam, “I’m going to prescribe you an artistic experience.” Would you be thinking, “Time to …
Medicine X is all about reimagining medicine, and this morning's speakers had fabulously sensory imaginations. One of them -- Monika Wittig, co-lead of MedXMakers -- thinks with her hands. …
Each year, hundreds of people gather on the med school campus for Medicine & the Muse, an annual extravaganza that celebrates the interplay between arts …
For many low-income children, a pediatrician is the only professional they interact with before they start kindergarten. This fact inspired Jecca Steinberg, a second-year Stanford medical student …
If you've ever heard the phrase "you are what you eat" and playfully wondered which part of you is composed of coffee and sweets, take …
When it comes to describing the feelings of hopelessness of depression, the fear and anxiety of having an operation or the unrelenting pain of a …
The scene: A group of medical students huddled around the iconic Robert Frank photograph Car Accident - U.S. 66, Between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona in …
