Kosik used his dual expertise in literature and neuroscience to redefine the phrase 'the art of medicine' for an audience of arts and humanities graduates. He argued that the word 'art' in medicine had evolved beyond meaning mere skill to encompass what artists in the modern sense actually do: communicate truths that people may anticipate but haven't yet seen clearly. He illustrated this with a devastating personal example. A professor of Shakespearean literature came to him because, while he could still recite long passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, he struggled when students asked unexpected questions — when he had to improvise. 'This is quite different from losing your keys,' Kosik noted. The answer was Alzheimer's disease, but 'no science teaches us how to tell a person they have Alzheimer's disease — this is the art of medicine.' The message to humanities graduates was clear: the skills they had developed — empathy, communication, the ability to convey difficult truths with compassion — were not merely complementary to science but essential to its most human applications.