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First described by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837, ECS can affect anyone who practices medicine. But Gross reports that the disability is more common among interns, residents and assistant department chiefs than it is among new medical students and professors. The symptoms are easily recognized. In a typical case, the chief of a hospital service will examine a patient and announce that he hears, for instance, a heart murmur. None of the interns or residents accompanying him can detect it until the senior resident-who has much influence over the trainees' futures-announces: "I hear it." Then the disease...
...diagnostic ability in the physician but "perpetual wrong disease labeling" in his patient. Fortunately, ECS is completely preventable. Gross's recommended prophylaxis: skepticism. Physicians should rely on their own observations, not on those of their colleagues. Nor should they hesitate to be like the child in the Andersen story and admit that the Emperor is naked. Such an attitude, says Gross, leads to hyperimmunity...
...close friend, Rikard Nordraak (Frank Poretta), "I was beginning to lose any hope, Nordraak, of ever being important." The plot follows Grieg's agonized crawl to fame, illustrated principally by a lot of fancy name-dropping. "I've written 15 songs for the poems of Hans Christian Andersen," he shyly admits. Cries Nordraak, eagerly: "Has Hans heard these?" Later, Grieg's wife Nina (Florence Henderson) sighs: "How do you suppose the others managed?" Replies a piano salesman played by Edward G. Robinson: "You mean Schubert and Liszt, for example?" When Grieg enters the Scandinavian Club in Rome...
...dancers perform in the head's ugly proscenium of a mouth, a hint that Andersen felt that femininity itself was a trap. In one collage that he made for Agnete Lind, the child of Louise Lind, one of his early unrequited loves, a snake shares the page with one of Andersen's own book covers, a sketch of an audience and a blue cutout doily. It is the serpent in Eden. "This," Andersen scribbled under it, "is the snake of knowledge, representing both good and evil." The dilemma of coming to grips with any work of art became...
...images suggest such modern masters of collage as Kurt Schwitters or Max Ernst. But their "modernity" has as much to do with their obsessiveness as their means. Collage was not unknown in the mid-19th century-it was often used for greeting cards, decorative screens and the like-and Andersen was clearly one of the first men to use it as a possible language...