Medical Skepticism Is On the Rise. Here’s How Doctors Are Responding. ⁦The New York Times⁩ How do we best instill trust? nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…

#Madrid

Early 17th century -Brotherhood of Silence created care center for priests, disabled, and homeless…moving2hear this…tour of #jewishquarter #Seville #Spain Difficult2hear of 90% Jewish population killed in this area 1391

Under the floor of our restaurant in Granada, Spain. Thinking about our ⁦work4 ⁦The Lancet⁩ Commission on medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust. Learning abt the past holds up/supports the present and future

Jaume Plensa -Julia' sculpture in Madrid square
Saw this today -represents tenderness&silence -sculptor hopes it can serve as a mirror and restore a sense of serenity in the society.
Contemplating this today… catalannews.com/culture/item/j…

Gaudi Casa Bastillo -“creative genius, technical perfection, and aesthetic value” A lot like medicine?! Or what we strive for?! #barcelona #art #architecture

Capturing a moment. #madrid

Guernica (Picasso) “Guernica should B seen as Picasso's comment on what art can actually contribute towards the self-assertion that liberates every human being&protects the individual against overwhelming forces such as political crime, war,violence&death” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_…

Madrid. Spirited marathoners running by. Did Prado and we’re enroute to Reina Sofia to see the Picasso and more. #spirit #gratitude #art Will see my ⁦The Lancet⁩ Commission colleagues tomorrow

This orchid plant looked awful, like the Ugly Duckling. Hung in there with some TLC and now the swan. Truly lovely. A good reminder-stay the course. Beauty ahead even with some dark stuff along the way… #mindfulmoment

Struck by this today. “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. —Buddha

Currently obsessed w this -Blackberry Smoke - Azalea, concert-Durham, NC. youtu.be/LkjCuTl3VsE?si… “1/2 the learnin’s in the leavin’” & “life’s not always kind2warn ya” Both lines esp poignant4me #docswhorock

Little Things by Marion Strobel. Beauty in brevity…

Little things I’ll give to you—
Till your fingers learn to press 
Gently 
On a loveliness;
Little things and new—
Till your fingers learn to hold
Love that’s fragile,
Love that’s old.

Jewish American Heritage Month: The Forgotten History of Quotas in American Medical School Admissions – Himmelfarb Library News blogs.gwu.edu/himmelfarb/202…

For all our wonderful health professions students, faculties & clinicians who love #music & #medicine &their intersection: “Music and medicine: quickening the tempo of progress” ⁦The Lancet⁩ #docswhorock thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Thank u ⁦Bret Stephens⁩ ⁦The New York Times⁩ ⁦Yeshiva University⁩ You are remarkable -speaking w moral clarity with a “voice of reason and conveyor of truth” as prez of YU so aptly said about you