He is both a medical doctor and a magician, and he explores the importance of “belief” in both disciplines.
By trade, Dr. Ricardo Rosenkranz is a neonatologist, specializing in the care of premature babies, and he teaches at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Dr. Rosenkranz’s other great passion is magic.
His new stage show at the Royal George Theatre, “The Rosenkranz Mysteries,” looks at the connection between magic and medicine. While performing illusions and mind-boggling tricks of mentalism, he speaks of the similarity between a doctor and a patient and a performer and an audience.
He is a medicine man for the modern era, stressing empathy and imagination.
Dr. Rosenkranz joins host Phil Ponce to talk about moonlighting as a magician. He’ll also reveal how and why he uses illusions in his lectures to medical students at Northwestern, where he has taught a class in medicine and magic for seven years. He’ll share tricks of both trades.
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