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Foreword by Professor Sir Kenneth Calman 10 PATRON OF ART <strong>IN</strong> HOSPITAL CHANCELLOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
My interest in the arts originated from a love of literature. During the mid 1980s, I ran an ethics course for medical students using poems, plays, texts and the purpose of this was to help medical students view the world from the perspective of the artist, and not just the medical academic. It was an interesting time for me as we saw these bright medical students begin to approach their course work with a broader and more person-orientated approach which would hopefully make them better doctors. their being involved in arts and their quality of life during this time is higher. Medicine is based on science and the quest for new knowledge. The arts and humanities however are an important part of this and may seem to have got lost along the way. There is now considerable interest in re-introducing them into the medical curriculum but not at the expense of medical knowledge. The medical student needs to know where the heart is but he also needs to know about emotional interaction and effective communication. There were two main questions which were in my mind. The first was do the arts and the humanities influence medical professionals, and secondly do the arts help people with physical and mental illnesses recover more effectively? There is scientific evidence for both of these which is slowly building up. The broader your outlook on life and the more interesting you are as a person does allow you to see people in a different way. In addition, I have seen the growth and self confidence in patients through When we founded the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine we wanted to try to bring the two worlds together. Simple things like the environment in the doctors surgery and looking at the evidence that people felt better in the waiting room looking out at a garden rather than brick walls. It seems so obvious yet how many waiting rooms are dreary and dismal places. So it’s not just those who are health professionals who need to think differently, it’s architects, planners and many others. There is a chance with new hospital buildings to look 11
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