Monet, Manet, Mayonnaise: Is the Art Worth the Controversy?

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Art and Medicine.

BACKGROUND Medical practice is a form of art, with each complex detail essential to the welfare of the individuals in the care of the physician. Art and medicine have shared a close relationship in a variety of ways for centuries, as demonstrated by anatomical drawings and textbooks from the 16th century. Leonardo da Vinci, driven by his fascination with the details of the human body and how it...

The mayonnaise droplet.

Show Me the Monet: the Suitability of Product Disparagement to Art Experts

As Theodore Stebbins tells the story, a painting entitled Two Hummingbirds and an Orchid was presented to Sotheby Parke Bernet for auction. It was purported to be by the American painter, Martin Johnson Heade, so naturally, Sotheby’s contacted Stebbins, the foremost expert on Heade, to authenticate the work. After comparing an 8 x 10 transparency of the painting to photos of known Heade works, ...

the plain x-ray the diagnosis of the acute abdomen_

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Imaging of parathyroid lesions with radionuclides - Is it worth doing?

Parathyroid adenomas, or hyperplasia may be present in patients with hypercalcemia. Treatment Is by surgical excision, but about 10% of the lesions may be In ectopic locations. Pre-operative localization of the lesions with non-lvasive imaging, using radionuclides, ultrasound, CT, or MR], may simplify surgery, and reduce patient morbidity. However, the reports of the accuracy of the curre...