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ALSO INSIDE: Writing Contest Winners Reasons Why 7 Doctors Write Why We Need the Arts in Medicine MINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JULY 2011 MINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 17 22 JULY 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER STORY Medical Imaging 14 Winners of our photo 47 contest p.30 PULSE 14 A Life in Pictures | By Suzy Frisch Taking photos is the best medicine for pediatric surgeon Roberta 37 Sonnino. FEATURE 16 The Body Electric | By Kim Kiser Medical students create an online showcase for their creative works. Medical Musings 17 Visual Cues | By Carmen Peota A Minneapolis Institute of Arts program aids people with memory Results of our eighth annual writing contest loss. Student Winners 18 A New Leaf | By Lisa Harden Rehab patients express themselves through clay. 38 Unspoken Words | By Erica Warnock 40 The River | By Aaron Crosby 20 Study Break | By Kim Kiser Medical students use Art of Medicine awards to explore Physician Winner their creative side. 43 Hospice | By William Shores, M.D. 22 Uniform Design | By Carmen Peota Scrubs become high fashion. Physician Honorable Mention 44 Bethany, House of God PERSPECTIVE | By Jamie Santilli, M.D. 45 I Believe, You Believe 47 Seven Reasons Why Doctors Write | By Tony Miksanek, M.D. | By Marilyn Aschoff Mellor, M.D. Physicians write for the same reasons that nonphysicians do, 46 Infertility 628.2 | By Carrie Link, M.D. plus some special ones. 8 | Minnesota Medicine • July 2011 MMA NEWS minnesota MEDICINE 25 State Launches Time Out Campaign 2011 MMA Officers Owner and Publisher President Minnesota Medical Association Patricia J. Lindholm, M.D. Editor in Chief 26 Meet a Member: Therese Zink, M.D., M.P.H. President-Elect Charles R. Meyer, M.D. Lyle J. Swenson, M.D. Editors Chair, Board of Trustees Carmen Peota 27 Legislative Limbo David C. Thorson, M.D. Kim Kiser Secretary/Treasurer MMA Communications David E. Westgard, M.D. Director 28 MMA in Action: Recent Ways MMA Members and Speaker of the House Terry Ruane Mark Liebow, M.D. MMA News writer Staff Have Worked for Physicians Vice Speaker of the House Scott Smith Robert Moravec, M.D. Graphic Designers Past President Janna Netland Lover 29 New BCBS Contract Review Now Online Benjamin H. Whitten, M.D. Michael Start MMA Chief Executive Publications Assistant Officer Kristin Drews Robert K. Meiches, M.D. Advisory Committee Zubin Agarwal MMA Board of Trustees Maria Carrow Northwest District Donald L. Deye, M.D. Robert A. Koshnick Jr., M.D. Mark Eggen, M.D. Northeast District Barbara Elliott, Ph.D. COMMENTARY Jon S. Hallberg, M.D. Michael P. Heck, M.D. Neal Holtan, M.D. Paul B. Sanford, M.D. Peter J. Kernahan, M.D. 49 Why We Need the Arts in Medicine North Central District Robert K. Meiches, M.D. Wade T. Swenson, M.D., M.P.H. | By Gary Christenson, M.D. Gregory Plotnikoff, M.D. Patrick J. Zook, M.D. Martin Stillman, M.D., J.D. Studies show that incorporating the arts can save money, improve the Twin Cities District Barbara P. Yawn, M.D. Michael B. Ainslie, M.D. Anjali Wilcox patient experience—and do a lot more. Beth A. Baker, M.D., M.P.H. Therese Zink, M.D., M.P.H. Carl E. Burkland, M.D. Benjamin W. Chaska, M.D. Copyright & Post Office CLINICAL & HEALTH AFFAIRS V. Stuart Cox III, M.D. Entry Donald M. Jacobs, M.D. Minnesota Medicine (ISSN Roger G. Kathol, M.D. 0026-556X) is published each 52 Tularemia in Two South Dakota Children Charles G. Terzian, M.D. month by the Minnesota Medical David C. Thorson, M.D. Association, 1300 Godward Street | By Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, M.D., DTM&H Southwest District NE, Suite 2500, Minneapolis, Cindy Firkins Smith, M.D. MN 55413. Copyright 2011. 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Email: [email protected] Web: minnesotamedicine.com July 2011 • Minnesota Medicine | 9 editor’s note | Seeking the Spark ’ve got Frank Lloyd Wright on the internal muse to speak. brain. While I was half way through For some artists, the muse needs help, IT.C. Boyle’s novel The Women, based a gentle shove to rouse the juices and get on the wives of Frank Lloyd Wright, my the creativity stirring. Some watch the wife and I happened to stay at a Wiscon- sunset while they paint. Others listen to sin resort with cabins designed by one of Bach while they write. Still others sit for Wright’s followers. We completed our hours in the Louvre while they compose. immersion into FLW by watching Ken Small flames in the tinderbox of creativity, Photo by Scott Walker Scott Photo by Burns’ documentary of the architect’s life. muses are ethereal-but-real forces in the Radical yet lyrical, Wright’s creations such artistic process. Our patients’ as Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel and Manhattan’s Physicians who write, paint, perform, Guggenheim Museum exploded conven- or photograph frequently don’t have the predicaments tion and turned architectural heads. luxury of time to flee to the mountains Tumultuous and erratic, Wright’s or sit for hours in front of great paintings. and stories are life was a roller coaster of torrid love af- They must find their inspiration on the fairs, failed marriages, and professional job, in the bustle of the operating room, doldrums preceding artistic triumph. through the crisis at the bedside, or in the kindling enough Through acclaim and acrimony, the one hush of the exam room. In these venues, constant in FLW’s life was his creative muses can be hidden out of sight or ear- for endless spark, which stayed aglow to the last of shot unless watched or listened for. But his 92 years. For most mornings of his life, if we pay attention, our patients’ predica- artistic fire. Wright went straight from bed to drafting ments and stories are kindling enough for table, pouring the fire of his ideas onto the endless artistic fire. And this month’s Min- page through the lead of his pencil. In one nesota Medicine is proof again that Min- legendary flood of genius, Wright drew the nesota physicians and medical students are sketches for his most famous house, Fall- paying attention and finding their muse. ing Water, in the three hours it took the Growing up in River Forest, Illinois, I house’s purchaser to travel from Milwau- walked to school past Frank Lloyd Wright kee to Wright’s studios at Taliesin. homes, dramatic houses with arched en- For most, creative ideas aren’t endless tries and horizontal lines that made them streams that come unbidden each morn- seem modern 60 years after their construc- ing or disgorge in three-hour torrents. tion. Wright houses are full of surprises, Many artists wait days, weeks, or years hidden recesses, outsized fireplaces, and for the breakthrough. Some retire each camouflaged front doors. In the middle day to their nook, like John Updike did, of the house that served as Wright’s studio surrounded by his books and a Cape Cod for years, a fully-grown elm stretched its vista.
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