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Bridge of Compassion

Deborah Kasman August 11, 2017 No Comments

Deborah Kasman

About the artist:

Deborah Kasman is a family physician and bioethicist who has straddled both careers. She has always loved the arts and was an active photographer until she started a family. As her children grew older, she decided to take up painting and learned a method called Intentional Creativity. This process and productivity has allow her a wonderful release and form of expression for her internal state.

About the artwork:

“As I entered bioethics full time, I was struggling

When We Wait

Tasneem Kaleem July 14, 2017 1 Comment

Tasneem Kaleem

About the artist:

Tasneem Kaleem is a radiation-oncology resident. “I was always artistically inclined from a young age, engaging in painting, dance and violin. I spent a summer in Rome studying artistic anatomy, which piqued my interest in medicine.” Kaleem’s artwork has been featured in many exhibitions, and recently her pastel work was selected to be a front cover for an international medical journal.

About the artwork:

“Waiting rooms bring together people for a purpose–to obtain medical attention. Whether it is you or a family member, it is

The Afterworld

Clementine King June 30, 2017 No Comments

Clementine King

About the artist:

“Clementine King” is an assistant professor of public health and an artist.

About the artwork:

“This graffiti scene struck me as I made my way through a tough day with depression. It must have been created by multiple artists, at different times, with different intentions. But taken together, at this moment, was there a message in it? The peaceful world above, the chaos below and the light on the far end of the walkway? Who knows, it may be painted over tomorrow.”

Visuals Editor:

Sara Kohrt

Soul Stories: Standing With Giants

Josephine Ensign June 16, 2017 No Comments

Josephine Ensign

About the artist:

Josephine Ensign is a nurse and writer. She teaches health policy and health humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of the medical memoir Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net.

About the artwork:

This photograph is part of the artist’s multimedia digital humanities project Soul Stories: Voices From the Margins, about the role of narrative in health and healing in the context of trauma. The Soul Stories project includes photographs and digital storytelling videos to accompany a forthcoming book of essays and poems about her search for ways to humanize health care for patients, families, communities and providers.

Ocean Memories

Pris Campbell June 2, 2017 7 Comments

Pris Campbell

About the artist:

Formerly a clinical psychologist, Pris Campbell was sidelined by ME/CFS (myalgic encephalopathy/chronic fatigue syndrome) in 1990. “I now write poetry and create graphics in this much quieter life, publishing eight books of poetry through small-press publishers. I live in the Greater West Palm Beach area with my husband and two cats.”

About the artwork:

“As former sailor, I find the sea a place of joy and healing. A photograph of a couple strolling the beach, taken during a weekend in Daytona, became not just this walk, in my mind, but multiple walks, the energy from previous ones accompanying them, enhancing their experience.”

Visuals editor:

Sara Kohrt

Medical School: The Never-Ending Fight or Flight

Andrea Hartford May 19, 2017 1 Comment

Andrea Hartford

About the artist:

Andrea Hartford is a third-year osteopathic medical student currently studying at AT Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. “Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, I have always been encouraged by my family and others to raise the bar in my studies, which ultimately helped get me into medical school; it also pushed me to develop my appreciation of art, something that has helped keep me grounded on this crazy journey.”

About the artwork:

“I started this drawing in my first year of medical school. At times, working on it was the only way I had of staying grounded during that life-changing and chaotic period. Unfortunately (though not surprisingly), the drawing went missing halfway through the

Building Site

Justin Sanders May 5, 2017 No Comments

Justin Sanders

About the artist:

Justin Sanders is a palliative-care physician in Boston. From today, he is the former visuals editor of Pulse. “I’m going to miss this job, and miss combing through the wonderful images sent by our readers. Fortunately, I have lots to keep my hands full, including a new baby.” He still loves reading the New Yorker and cooking pizza at home.

About the artwork:

“With the arrival last week of a second child, the corralling of the first, the pressures of building a career, and my ambivalence about passing on

Resilience

Cathleen Mahan April 21, 2017 No Comments

Cathleen Mahan

About the artist:

Cathleen Mahan is a contemporary visual artist and a former critical-care nurse. She maintains an active studio practice in Portland, Maine. “Putting pencil to paper or hands to clay is, for me, a doorway into a nonverbal world outside of time that offers deep healing and balance. It is also where I feel most alive.”

About the artwork:

“Brought to tears by the change-of-shift report describing the circumstance of this young boy’s traumatic injuries, I struggled to enter

Braak Stage IV

Roberta Beary April 7, 2017 1 Comment

Roberta Beary

About the artist:

Roberta Beary is the 2017 Roving Ambassador for the Haiku Foundation, and haibun editor for Modern Haiku. The author of two award-winning poetry collections, The Unworn Necklace and Deflection, she writes to connect with the disenfranchised, to let them know they are not alone. A photographer since her Polaroid Swinger days, she now uses her iPad to link her poems with images. More of her visual work can be viewed on Twitter @shortpoemz.

I Missed His Birthday, Again

Jef Gamblée March 24, 2017 No Comments

Jef Gamblee

About the artist:

Jef Gamblee is a hospice chaplain from Westerville, Ohio. He first appeared in Pulse in December 2014. Jef is a second-career ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, having spent twenty-five years in commercial and corporate television as a director of photography. He keeps his hand in still photography to maintain his sanity.

About the artwork:

“As a hospice chaplain, I frequently visit adults with dementia who live in the ‘memory units’

Cousins

Pris Campbell March 10, 2017 No Comments

Pris Campbell

About the artist:

Pris Campbell has published free verse and short forms (haiku and tanka) in numerous journals over the years. She developed her love of graphic manipulation of images through creating haiga–haiku combined with an image. One of her graphics was used for the cover of the poetry journal Red-headed Stepchild. A former clinical psychologist sidelined by myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) since 1990, she makes her home in greater West Palm Beach, Florida.

About the artwork:

Comfort

Esther Hwang February 24, 2017 No Comments

Esther Hwang

About the artist:

Esther Hwang is a second-year medical student at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. “I take occasional photos when the beauty of life captures my heart. I spend most of my days studying and learning more about being a physician. I am interested in pursuing family medicine and obstetrics. On the weekends, I enjoy spending time with my husband and family, as well as baking cookies and exploring Athens, Ohio.”

About the artwork:

“This photo captures my niece Grace comforting her grandma (“Mimi”), my

fostering the humanistic practice of medicine publishing personal accounts of illness and healing encouraging health care advocacy

fostering the humanistic practice of medicine publishing personal accounts of illness and healing encouraging health care advocacy

Tag: visuals

Bridge of Compassion

When We Wait

The Afterworld

Soul Stories: Standing With Giants

Ocean Memories

Medical School: The Never-Ending Fight or Flight

Building Site

Resilience

Braak Stage IV

I Missed His Birthday, Again

Cousins

Comfort

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