Frank Netter, MD: The Michelangelo of Medicine

[xchrom]

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/frank-netter-md-the-michelangelo-of-medicine/279701/



To generations of medical students, from mine to the present, the name Frank Netter has a magical connotation. He was the doctor who drew the remarkably lifelike images that we all used to learn anatomy. They were so lifelike, we joked, that we trusted them more than what we actually saw in our cadavers or on CAT scans.

Who was Frank Netter and how did he come to be the world’s most famous medical illustrator? Fortunately, his daughter Francine has written a forthcoming biography of her father, entitled Medicine's Michaelangelo.

As we learn, if Netter’s mother had had her way, Netter would have retired his paintbrush in favor of a stethoscope. It is because he did not, though, that we have timeless illustrations like this.

[MisterP]

1. dunno, I'm getting more of an Art Frahm feel from that first painting

fab, though!

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Book rec !

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/anatomist-bill-hayes/1103813654?ean=9780345456892&itm=5&usri=anatomist

[hedgehog]

3. Anyone else spot the dropped cigarette in the top picture?