As technological advances continue, so does the
combination of medicine and art. Every day, there are surgeons who are changing
the way people look designed to how the person wants. Without the medicine
aspect, this art would not exist. You are able to change the person’s facial
features or even body parts. Not only can you change the way someone looks, but
now society so starting to double them. The art of cloning with advanced
medicine that is an art as well. Being able to create one thing into two is
superb. 
Another medical art I see in my life is elbow
surgery. As a baseball player, a surgery called tommy john is very common on
elbows. Luckily I have not had the surgery, but have had friends who have. The
art and medical combination exists as the surgeon has to cut open two parts of
the person. The elbow that needs the surgery and another part to take a tendon
from. Most often it is the patella tendon used and inserted into the elbow. It
takes great art to cut open two places in the body and sew them back up, leave
the patient healthy. As Peter Tyson explains, "I will remember that there
is art to medicine as well as science and that warmth, symphony, and
understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or chemists drug"
(Tyson).
Another piece of art I enjoy is the art of Nick Veasey. His objective in his artwork is to “counter the obsession with superficial appearance by using x-rays to strip back the layers and show what it is like under the surface” (Veasey). This frame of work really allows you to think about true beauty, as everyone and objects look the same behind an X-Ray.
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I've never heard about a surgery called tommy johns before reading your post. I am still little bit confused about how cutting open the body parts and sewing them back can be considered art. I get that for plastic surgery, it changes the outer appearance of a person so I could understand it being considered art. But I am just little bit confused with tommy johns surgery case.
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