Enhancing the Healing Process through Art Forms
This month’s focus is on the trend of some medical practitioners to incorporate various forms of creative arts into patient treatment. Our Special Report traces the history of using art forms as part of medical practice, discusses the professional credentials of “healing artists,” and examines the role of art therapy in contemporary, Westernized medicine. Particularly noteworthy is the article section that mentions the use of art therapy by physicians, not just art therapists.
It remains to be seen how widespread art therapy will be adopted by practicing physicians in different specialties, but the trends suggest that the influence of creative arts in patient care will become more pronounced as time goes by.
A guest feature article from one of our “sister companies,” Jackson Surgical Assistants, discusses another emerging trend: Surgeons who opt to work as Surgical First Assistants as a viable career alternative.
Other articles of special interest in this issue: cell phones that take ECG readings, doctors who make house calls, medical students without science backgrounds who apparently succeed in practice, the future of malpractice reform, and cyber security for locum tenens providers.
As always, we seek to provide a balance of article topics that inform and enlighten our broad-based readership. Enjoy.
Cordially,
Calvin Bruce
Managing Editor