Doctors are giving famous works of art medical diagnoses
Some of the most famous pieces of art in the world are receiving a medical diagnosis, thanks to the latest Twitter trend #MedicalizeArt.
The craze started began gathering pace on social media this week with professional practitioners, physicians and pupils of medicine all joining in.
Twitter user Andrew Moon determined the ‘man’ in Magritte’s The Son of Man, which depicts a green apple hovering in front of a face, had a ‘large fungating facial lesion.’
Mark Reid shared a picture of Michaelangelo’s David on the social networking site, giving the reassuring diagnosis that ‘this is perfectly normal. It’s just cold.’
Some of the Tweets, understandably, took more technical-know how to decrypt than others.
It wasn’t long before the Tweets became digs at work problems, allowing the rest of us an insight into what irks the scientist behind the stethoscope.
However, pretty soon the rest of the web got involved, too. Then came a flood of tweets for those without a medical degree or penchant for Googling.
Inevitably, the Tweets turned their attention to Trump.
