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Apr 10, 2009
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." --Cicero
The Faces of Others
Dr. Yehonatan N. Turner was accepted to both film school and medical school. He was eventually drawn to radiology as the most visual field in medicine; when he began his residency in radiology, he was frustrated that the CT scans he analyzed revealed nothing about the patients behind them -- only their internal organs. So to make things personal, he imagined each patient was his father. But then he had a better idea: attach a photograph of the actual patient to each file. Dr. Turner's hunch turned into an unusual medical study, which suggested that when a digital photograph was attached to a patient's file, radiologists provided longer, more meticulous reports. And they said they felt more connected to the patients, whom they seldom meet face to face.
BE THE CHANGE
Attach a face behind something that you do everyday. Maybe it's reflecting on the farmer who cultivated the food you eat, or the person who will receive each email you send today.
