The Medical Art Society, founded in 1935, exists for doctors, dentists, veterinary surgeons, and recently all fully accredited healthcare professionals, whether working, retired or students, who enjoy drawing, painting and sculpture.
It is based in the UK, but welcomes medical artists living abroad as members and has links with similar medical art societies in other countries.
The Society’s programme includes lectures by well known artists, visits to studios and galleries, life drawing sessions, painting days and weekends, short breaks in UK and abroad, occasional conferences and always an Annual Exhibition .
The MAS is administered by its Officers and Committee. There is no joining fee and the annual MAS subscription is low.
Habash was born in Lydda (today’s Lod) to an Eastern Orthodox Palestinian family in 1926.[4][5] As a child, he sang in the church choir.[6] Habash, a medical student at the American University of Beirut, was visiting his family during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. In July 1948, the Israeli Defence Force captured Lydda from Jordanian and Arab Liberation Army forces, resulting in all of the town’s Arab residents leaving and the death of Habash’s sister. Habash and his remaining family became refugees and were not allowed to return home.
Political thinkers who were influences on Habash at this period included Constantin Zureiq, whose lectures at AUB on ‘Arab nationalism and the Zionist danger’ in the late 1940s and early 1950s Habash had attended, and Sati’ al-Husri an Arab Muslim intellectual who emphasized national cohesiveness, territorial patriotism, and loyalty to the state, and gave priority to Arab unity over Islamic unity.[7]
In 1951, after graduating first in his class from medical school, Habash worked in refugee camps in Jordan and ran a clinic with Wadie Haddad in Amman. He firmly believed that the state of Israel should be ended by all possible means, including political violence.[8] In an effort to recruit the Arab world to this cause, Habash founded the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) in 1951 and aligned the organization with Gamal Abdel Nasser‘s Arab nationalist ideology.
He was implicated in the 1957 coup attempt in Jordan, which had originated among Palestinian members of the National Guard. Habash was convicted in absentia, after having gone underground when Hussein of Jordan proclaimed martial law and banned all political parties. In 1958 he fled to Syria (then part of the United Arab Republic), but was forced to return to Beirut in 1961 by the tumultuous breakup of the UAR.
Trained as a psychiatrist, he co-founded the Serb Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and served as the first president of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996. He was a fugitive from 1996 until July 2008, after having been indicted for war crimes by the ICTY.[3] The indictment concluded there were reasonable grounds for believing he committed war crimes, including genocide against Bosniak and Croat civilians during the Bosnian War (1992–1995).[3] While a fugitive, he worked at a private clinic in Belgrade, specializing in alternative medicine and psychology, under an alias.[4]
Hunter Doherty “Patch” Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he also organizes volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people.[1]
Adams is currently based in Urbana, Illinois. In collaboration with the institute, he promotes an alternative health care model not funded by insurance policies.[1]
1.September 1918 – 4. January 2015 Günther Sandfuchs does not only play accordion (in Swiss German: Handorgel = hand organ) but also piano and a harmonium. Originally he studied machine building ingineer and was fascinated by flying. So he began gliding and later was flying transport planes. Music kept him young and he played until his high age of 97.
I was born in 1945 in Schlesien and my first violin teacher made me interested in building violins since he did himself. Before retiring as cardiologist I took classes since 2008 and learnt from Jozef Novak in Slowakia. Since my retirement in 2010 I fully work in building violins and also play in two orchestras.
Hans Walz had a DDR folk music group the “Stieger Walzmusikanten” and built historical instruments as this Hillebille with which his family band performed.
Folk music of the Harz (mountain chain in the middle of Germany) area has fascinated Dr.med. Hans Walz, especially when performed on historical Harz instruments like the “devils violin” or the “Hillebille”. The general practitioner and lung specialist who settled his office in the little town Stiege in the eastern Harz does not only like the music but builds these special instruments.
In 1997 he has received the “cultural reward Harz” for his activities as conductor of the “Stieger Walzmusikanten” (folk music group) and for maintaining old traditions.
Being 57 years old in 1997 he already moved to the east Harz in 1968 right after his medical degree and made his specialization there. After growing contacts to inhabitants of the area he began to make copies of the instrument “Rumpelpott” for children in 1976. Since then he intensified this new hobby always more. So he build instruments with strange historical names like “Harzer Köhlergeläut, Fadenreibtrommel, Hillebille, Gemshornschalmei or Teufelsgeige”.
Mostly the instructions were not only retrievable through special literature but only over elder citizens who had inherited this knowledge. Through his copies he not only saved these instruments from being forgotten but also helped them to get new popularity confirmed the regional authorities.
He not only performs in the Harz with his ensemble but they have done tours to Brasile, Estland, Finnland, Polen, Hungary and Russia. In 1997 they even plan a tour to Peru.
Stieger Walzmusikanten. Dr. Hans Walz. Jahnstraße 10. 38899 Stiege. Tel. (03 94 59) 7 13 21
Albert Charles Otto „Abbi“ Hübner (* 4. Februar1933 in Hamburg; † 27. Juli2021 ebd.[1][2]) was a German jazz trumpet player, singer and author. He played Hot Jazz with his band “Low Down Wizards” and in the years before he passed away he was the oldest jazz musician in Hamburg anyways.
He worked for the Jazz redaction of the NDR (North Gemran Radio) for many years and published books as about Louis Armstrong and wrote poems as well and in several columns.
