
While I was at Baylor UMC for the 4th of July fireworks, I saw a very cool exhibit at the hospital - a 'museum of hands', if you will. There is a hand surgeon named Adrian Fiatt that worked at Baylor and years ago (like a LOT of years ago) started a collection of sorts - famous people's hands cast in bronze!

From what I hear, he started it by casting other surgeon's hands in bronze to show that there was no sterotypical 'surgeon's hands' - and it just went from there. Here is the surgeon that started this:

There were soooo many famous hands - I just couldn't take pictures of all of them. Here are some highlights that I thought were interesting:
Dwight D. Eisenhower's hands (he had a bunch of presidents including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr. and an open spot for George W. Bush - maybe they are being cast right now since "W" lives in Dallas now):

Here are Emmit Smith's Cowboy hands:

Billy Graham's praying hands:

Mike Modano's hockey hands (look at those long skinny fingers!):

Andre the Giant's mammoth hands - I cannot even describe to you how HUGE they were in person!

Nolan Ryan's famous pitching hands:

Walt Disney's magical hands:

Charles Schultz's Snoopy-drawing hands:

Winston Churchill's British hands - wow, now there's some history right there!:

Troy Aikman's 'passing' hands:

Neil Armstong's moon-walking hands:

And last, but not least, the hand surgeon's hands, doing hand surgery on a child's hand!
2 comments:
I freakin' LOVED Andre the Giant's hands! Thanks for posting - super interesting.
I found the hands a bit creepy... but interesting all the same.
Lottie
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