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Generations

Scott Clements March 9, 2018 2 Comments

Scott Clements

About the contributor:

Scott Clements is a general pediatrician whose hobby is photography. He likes general photography, but his favorite work is portraiture.

About the artwork:

“Photography helps me back up from the day-to-day aspects of medicine. This is a photo I took many years ago. The image is of my grandson and my wife’s grandmother, who has since died. To me, it expresses the connection between generations.”

Visuals editor:

Sara Kohrt

Walking Toward the Light

Debbie Hall December 29, 2017 8 Comments

Debbie Hall

About the artist:

Debbie Hall is a psychologist, writer and photographer. Her first poetry collection, What Light I Have, has been published by Main Street Rag. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of literary journals. Her essays have appeared on NPR (“This I Believe” series) and in The San Diego Union Tribune and other magazines/journals.

About the artwork:

“I took this photo of my partner in September, on a morning walk after her first chemotherapy session for breast cancer. It

Invasion

Lisa S. Gussak December 1, 2017 No Comments

Data Art

Alan Blum November 17, 2017 No Comments

Alan Blum

About the contributor:

Alan Blum is a professor and Gerald Leon Wallace MD Endowed Chair in family medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Tuscaloosa. A self-taught artist, he has published three books of his sketches and stories of patients, and his artworks have appeared in more than a dozen medical journals and textbooks. Many of his sketches have appeared in Pulse. He is a frequent guest speaker at medical schools in courses in the humanities.

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Data Art 2

Alan Blum November 17, 2017 No Comments

Alan Blum

About the contributor:

Alan Blum is a professor and Gerald Leon Wallace MD Endowed Chair in family medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Tuscaloosa. A self-taught artist, he has published three books of his sketches and stories of patients, and his artworks have appeared in more than a dozen medical journals and textbooks. Many of his sketches have appeared in Pulse. He is a frequent guest speaker at medical schools in courses in the humanities.

About the artwork:

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Podocytes

Patricia Massel November 3, 2017 No Comments

Patricia Massel

About the artist:

Patricia Massel is a second-year medical student at the University of British Columbia in Canada. “I try to find time amid my studies to keep creating artwork.”

About the artwork:

“This piece was inspired by electron microscopy images of the cells within the kidney. The patterns of tiny marks in this linoleum-cut print portray a sophisticated and somewhat alien world within our own living bodies. I

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Random Thoughts

Cheri Geckler October 20, 2017 No Comments

Cheri Geckler

About the artist:

Cheri Geckler is a neuropsychologist who has worked in academic hospitals in Boston for most of her career. “Making art is a way of calming the fields and creating deeper insight into the complex lives of the patients I serve.”

About the artwork:

“Patients on pediatric epilepsy service are often much more complicated than the record ever reveals. Expressing this complexity visually has helped me to maintain an acute awareness of the uniqueness of each

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And Exhale.

Hillary Mullan October 6, 2017 No Comments

Hillary Mullan

About the artist:

Hillary Mullan is a second-year medical student at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester. As a student and former research assistant, she often finds herself inspired by the beauty of human biology. Through hand cut paper images she hopes to share this appreciation with others.

About the artwork:

“I created this piece at the very beginning of our anatomy course. Working on the pair of lungs provided me with an opportunity to process the unique and challenging experiences of anatomy lab. I have always found

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Encounters: “I take so many medications…”

Sara Kohrt September 22, 2017 No Comments

Bronx, New York

About this Encounter:

I take twenty-one pills at night before I go to bed. In some ways, I think of myself as a pharmacy, I take so many medications.

About the Encounters Project:

This past summer, Pulse’s Visuals Editor collaborated with two medical students from Albert Einstein College of Medicine to launch a project that will add more patient voices to Pulse. Together with Sara Kohrt, students Kristen Lee and Erin McCoy photographed and interviewed patients who were waiting to see their doctors at a Bronx family health center. Patients

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Encounters: “I take so many medications…”

Sara Kohrt September 22, 2017 No Comments

I take twenty-one pills at night before I go to bed. In some ways, I think of myself as a pharmacy, I take so many medications.

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At the Children’s Hospital

Rachel Schwartz September 8, 2017 No Comments

Rachel Schwartz

About the artist:

Rachel Schwartz currently work as a healthcare researcher at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, in Palo Alto, CA. “My work focuses on improving care delivery for patients and their families, particularly those with cultural or linguistic communication barriers. My PhD was in Communication Sciences and Disorders (from McGill University) and I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in delivery system science at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute.”

About the artwork:

“Outside of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford,

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Casa Juan Diego Portraits

Alan Blum August 25, 2017 No Comments

Alan Blum

About the artist:

Alan Blum is a professor and Gerald Leon Wallace MD Endowed Chair in family medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Tuscaloosa. A self-taught artist, he has published three books of his sketches and stories of patients, and his artworks have appeared in more than a dozen medical journals and textbooks. Many of his sketches have appeared in Pulse. He is a frequent guest speaker at medical schools in courses in the humanities.

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