Below left: Helene Lubin's
illustration of a skull. Above right:
Lubin draws a kidney with a double
ureter. Below: Dan Cutler examines
part of a cadaver's head for a
dissection manual. Below right:
David Factor, keeping busy at Mayo
Clinic.

rowing up in Oak
Park in the
1960s, Dan Cut-
ler, Helene Lubin
and David Factor
never realized
that some 20
years later they'd

share a gift.
They are all medical illustrators
— three of a select thousand in the na-
tion who render drawings used by doc-
tors, nurses, lawyers, professors and
advertisers.
"When I was a kid, I just wanted
to draw all day long," Cutler said.
When he was 11, he drew pictures on
his father's shirt cardboards. Today,
27 years later, he works as a medical
illustrator at the V.A. Hospital in
Ann Arbor and has been on the job for
the past 11 years.
"I was always interested in art as
a young child all through elementary
school," said Lubin, who has free-
lanced as a medical illustrator for the
past 14 years. "In high school, I took
all the advanced art classes. In
undergraduate school at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, I enrolled in every
single figurative drawing class that
was offered."
Factor, who has been working as
a medical illustrator for 14 years, six
of those free-lancing in New York, has
worked the past three months at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He
said he first knew he had a talent for
E drawing when he was 12 years old.
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"I'd draw cartoons and other
g3 things for people. In high school, I'd

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