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Remembering My Patients…
- By Alan Blum
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About the Artwork
“A sketch of a patient I made during my forty years as a family doctor.”
A self-taught artist, Alan Blum is professor and endowed chair in family medicine at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. His artworks have been regularly featured in Pulse since 2010 and have also appeared in JAMA, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Literature and Medicine, The Pharos, Hektoen International and The Color Atlas of Family Medicine. He has frequently given invited presentations of his stories and sketches of patients at conferences and courses in the medical humanities, medical school and residency graduations, and more recently also via Zoom. His website, Sketchiest Details, features excerpts of his three books: Ladies in Waiting, Gentle Men and Seeing Patients: The Sketchiest Details.
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1 thought on “Remembering My Patients…”
Ah, another favorite by Alan!