{"id":917,"date":"2015-11-05T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2015-11-05T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:18:32","slug":"bringing-magic-to-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Bringing &#8220;magic&#8221; to medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-918\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-918\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/105-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/105-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/105-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/105-624x459.jpg 624w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/105.jpg 1976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Anthony Felice (left) entertains patient Bernie Terry with a card trick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Anthony Felice meets with his patients, most of whom have cancer or blood disorders, he often uses a tool seldom found in medical textbooks or offices: a deck of cards.<\/p>\n<p>A specialist in oncology and hematology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/reston-oncologist-uses-card-tricks-to-put-patients-at-ease\/2015\/11\/03\/f7108d8a-8249-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Felice is a skilled magician who has found a way to work his hobby into his medical practice<\/strong><\/a>. Since opening his office in Reston in 1995, he has discovered that entertaining his patients with card tricks is an effective way to relieve tension and take their minds off their medical problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/reston-oncologist-uses-card-tricks-to-put-patients-at-ease\/2015\/11\/03\/f7108d8a-8249-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, November 5, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Anthony Felice meets with his patients, most of whom have cancer or blood disorders, he often uses a tool seldom found in medical textbooks or offices: a deck of cards. A specialist in oncology and hematology, Felice is a skilled magician who has found a way to work his hobby into his medical practice. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=917\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bringing &#8220;magic&#8221; to medicine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124,28,24],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-fairfax-county","tag-health","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}