![]() No matter what our preferred art form is, we must recognise the importance of human expression in our lives. ![]() For our own sanity as doctors, we need an escape an oasis in the form of a book, a movie, a piece of music or a painting. No matter how experienced, or how in touch with our feelings we believe we are, our emotionally gruelling career path demands that we take a step back now and then. This is why we as medical students and doctors need the arts. When seen too much from one side, medicine loses its intrinsic link between the human and technical aspects of healing. ![]() This implies an essential balance between the precision and discipline of science, and the expressive, artistic field of the humanities. Reviewed by Róisín King, Trinity College DublinĪptly stated by Ed Pellegrino, ‘medicine is the most humane of the sciences, the most scientific of the humanities’. Rana Awdish, In Shock : My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope (2018), New York: Bantam Press, 272 pp, £14.99. ![]()
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