Surgery has advanced so much with new technology; it has really become an art.  Somehow surgeons can perform surgery with leaving a scar a couple inches big.  Richard Satava says that the ability to bring together factors that are unrelated and put them together in creative ways.  This comes up during surgery when during a surgery something unplanned happens and you have to act on it quickly.   Surgery is important in keeping people alive, yet some people view surgery as a way to make themselves look perfect.   The advances in plastic surgery have made it so people can change everything about themselves.  In a sense they view themselves as artwork.   Although surgery is important to keep people alive, people use it to make themselves look perfect.  Technology is so far advanced there is even programs out there that you put in what surgery you want to get, and you see the outcome on your 3D replica of yourself (Greenberg).

(3D plastic surgery example)

Art is considered to be “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings” (art).   Art and new inventions go hand in hand.  Thanks to technology, today, there are so many different opportunities for the blind to participate in everyday activities.  Shoes have been designed to replace canes, the blind are able to read books, but the most fascinating new piece of technology is a car for the blind.  These inventions are all brilliant pieces of art, each inventor combines their imagination and skills with the technological advances in this day in age.  Dennis Hong has begun to develop a car that the blind can actually drive.  He uses so many different sensors, cameras, and gadgets to put together this car for the blind.  The fact that he has developed a car that people who cannot see anything can drive is astonishing.  Although all the pieces of the car are technology, designing a car for the blind is an art itself.  It takes so much creativity because he has to come up with different ways for the blind to get information from. This car is an amazing step forward in science yet also an amazing piece of artwork. 

(blind car)

(haptic footwear)

When combined art and medicine create a perfect combination.  This week I have learned that those who are the most successful in their medical field would not be there without their use of art.   

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