Doctors Using Paintings to Test Diagnostic Skills

January 5th, 2015

Thomas Jones Barker's ‘A Family Group’, painted in 1878, via WSJThe Wall Street Journal notes a new trend among doctors, using classical paintings as an opportunity to test and hone their diagnostic skills, while providing new information for art historians.  “Doctors see things that art historians might overlook because they come at a work of art without preconceived notions,’’ said Karen Goodchild, chair of the Art and Art History Department at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C.

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