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By Elaine Schattner, MD, on February 14th, 2012
 Yesterday I took a field trip to meet Regina Holliday, an artist and patient advocate. She fielded questions after a screening of 73 Cents, a short film about why she painted a mural by that name in the days after her husband died with metastatic kidney cancer. He was 39 years old.
At the time of her husband Fred’s diagnosis, both she and her husband held several jobs but he lacked health insurance. In a video, Regina describes how his diagnosis and care were delayed.
“73 Cents” refers to the price, per page, Regina needed to pay to get a copy of her husband’s chart when he entered a new medical facility. According to the film, she was told she’d have to wait 21 days to get his records, even though he was acutely ill and dying.
Regina, now a widow with two young sons, pushes for patients’ rights to access to
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By Elaine Schattner, MD, on February 2nd, 2011
 Today’s Wednesday web sighting ranks high in awesomeness. I discovered Google’s Art Project through molecular biologist Jessica Palmer’s always-gorgeous Biophemera blog.
The find is Google Art:
The Battle of the Nile, by Philip James De Loutherbourg, Tate Collection
I couldn’t make up my mind which image to capture for this post.
So take a break and explore some of the world’s finest art collections, right at your computer. Call it a mental health exercise if you like, or just go ahead and take a look. It’s fabulous!
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By Elaine Schattner, MD, on January 10th, 2011
 This is an unusual entry into a discussion on the limits of patient empowerment.
In late December the Times ran a story, beginning on its front page, about a portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Diego Velázquez, the 17th Century Spanish painter. The news was that the tall representation of the teenage Prince Philip IV would be back on display in the European paintings galleries after a 16-month cleaning, restoration and re-evaluation of the work. And, in case you weren’t up on your art history news – the painting really is a Velázquez.
label (ikonic’s Flickr)
I learned this morning that the museum received the painting in 1913. It was a gift of Benjamin Altman (that would be B. Altman, as in the department store of my childhood…). The 7-foot portrait was considered a true masterpiece for hundreds of years, its authenticity supported by a receipt signed by Velázquez and dated Dec. 4, 1624.
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