Dr. Joel Katz’s class of Harvard Medical School students meets on Friday afternoons at the Museum of Fine Arts, where they discuss the Seated Bodhisattva, a towering figure carved in ancient China, Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Slave Ship, and other artworks Katz believes will make them better doctors. On one Friday this spring, 24 of the country’s most promising future physicians circled the limestone Bodhisattva as art instructor Alexa Miller posed a question: “What’s happening here?” The students initially observed that the figure was made of stone and appeared peaceful. But she pushed them further. “What do you see that makes you say that?” she asked. After an hour at the museum, the class walked back to Harvard Medical School to apply what they had learned about examining art to diagnosing breathing problems, skin rashes, and neurological disorders, and to reading lung X-rays. Katz’s class is one of a growing number of art courses offered to medical students nationwide and aimed at improving their observation and diagnostic skills at a time when doctors are increasingly relying on CT scans, Maris, biopsies, and other technology to do their work, even though it is far more expensive – and sometimes unnecessary to pinpoint illnesses.
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