this article has caused quite a stir among my fellow SAH members

Does art have a place in hospitals?

Grayson Perry

I was having dinner the other night with some friends, a married couple. They were consultants, she for art, he for the heart. He’s a surgeon. We got chatting about art in hospitals. He said that in the anteroom to his operating theatre there was an interactive video installation. It is there to distract patients from the thought that they are about to have someone up to his elbows in their chest cavity. read the rest of it here

My favorite response was : Grayson Perry can put his fears to rest, chances are he'll be under the flicker of florescent lighting and staring at grim putty-colored walls