The Medical Humanist
The Medical Humanist

Favorite quotes(this will change!)


“For in truth, great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved.”
Leonardo da Vinci

Recommended authors


Daniel Levitin
Madeleine L’Engle
Oliver Sacks
Malcolm Gladwell

FUNNY STUFF!!


The Medical Terminology Concerto
“It is easier to be a humanist when one is not in traffic.”
The humanist at rest

Profile


Name: E. Relso (yep, it’s a pseudonym)
Gender: Female
Age: old enough to know better
Status: Quo (or is it Quid Pro Quo?)
Motto: at this point, illegitimi non carborundum.... or ex post facto, ad hoc, habeas corpus, or something else in Latin. It just sounds so classy.
New Reading: Marking The Sparrow’s Fall, The Solace of Open Spaces, On the Origin of Stories
Recent Reading: Outliers, Bozo Sapiens, Practicing, This Is Your Brain on Music, Musicophilia

good links


Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine
Keeping the Patient in the Equation (NEJM, August 2009)