6 Why Medicine Needs Art
Why Medicine Needs Art
“Hey Buddy, I’m Bill,” was a very insightful and interesting exhibit. There are many aspects that will stick with me and helped me to understand what Bill had gone through. Bill was intellectually challenged and this caused many people to treat him in unfair ways. The story of why Bill always wore a hat or wig was very shocking. Bill was assaulted by a worked at the institute he lived in. The results from this assault were major hair loss and a permanent handicap to his leg. The impact Bill made on society and all the people around him will be something I remember for a long time. He helped bring awareness to the treatment of mentally disabled individuals, he created change. His kindness and acts of selflessness will always be remembered.
Jill Sonke always loved medicine and dreamed of being a doctor. At the age of fourteen, she volunteered at the hospital and knew medicine was what she wanted to be involved in, in her future career. There was a turning point in her life when a dancer made an impact on her and moved her in a beautiful way, turning her towards the arts. A classmate of hers showed her how medicine and art can be connected. The healing aspects of the arts can overcome medicine and help the healing process. A very interesting example of this was a young girl with sickle cell disease. Bertus was in excruciating amounts of pain but when she danced this pain changed. She even had the doctors lower her dosage of pain medication when she danced so she could be there in the moment. Learning how much arts can affect physical recovery is astonishing and shows a whole new side of medicine.