As the evening went on, Herman and Hemenway continued to compare their art observations, all the while swapping anecdotes and historical data that shed light on personal bias, how it effects our perceptions and what we can do about it.
Finally, the short pre-ART observation period may have made these results sensitive to patients' recent prior medical history.
It is worth the trip to Paris if only to remind oneself how Henri Cartier-Bresson defined photography as the art of observation, and to observe how his images still hold sway over our collective visual understanding of the past century.
She perfected the art of observation, the sort anthropologists practice, hunkering down for years with a notepad and a little lamp, and transformed it into a science.
Now, based on participants' enthusiasm and their gains in analytical skills, Ms. Herman said, it looks as if "The Art of Observation" will be offered again in the spring and may become a regular course.
Corbin Bernsen ("L.A. Law") plays Henry Spencer, an old-fashioned cop who schooled his now estranged son, Shawn, in the art of observation and deduction and is appalled when he ends up as a fake psychic on contract to the police force.
"We have a very indirect goal -- to make doctors better observers," said Amy Herman, the Frick director of education and a creator of the pilot program called "The Art of Observation: Weill Cornell Medical College and the Frick Collection".
The eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building had an Art Moderne observation lounge containing a panelled "writing room," for addressing postcards, a tearoom, and a "sunset lounge," whose Belgian-marble bar served five kinds of champagne, along with a house cocktail, the Empire State, made with Amstel bitters, orange bitters, French vermouth, Scotch, and dry gin.
The art professors' observation notes both indicated greater interest by students in the subject being taught as compared to previous teaching experiences.
Three prospective randomised trials reported discordant findings regarding the impact of adjuvant radiation therapy (aRT) versus observation for metastasis-free survival (MFS) and overall survival (OS) among patients with pT3N0 prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy (RP).
Simon Chaplin, head of the Wellcome Library, said: "Together the collection amounts to a dizzying visual record of centuries of human culture, and our attempts to understand our bodies, minds and health through art and observation".
