Heart
Paul Rooprai
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Paul Rooprai is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Health Sciences program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His is interested in studying the healthcare system and in creating medical illustrations. HIs love for digital media and drawing led him to learn how to use Photoshop to create biomedical graphics. “Using a graphics tablet connected to my laptop, I worked off of an actual heart specimen found in the anatomy lab of the McMaster School of Medicine.”
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Trapped Within My Stoma
Kimberlee Norwood
About the artist:Â
“I am a medical educator with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. From January to March 2014, I was hospitalized five times for ulcerative colitis. My doctor finally said, “I have to take you to surgery now, or you’ll die. In fact, I don’t know why you’re not already dead.” I was whisked off to surgery to remove my colon, and I awoke with a stoma (ileostomy).Â
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“Several months after my operation, a friend and I were playing around and took a
Imagine
Mary Presciutti
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Mary Presciutti lives in New York City, a single mother of three wonderful children. She is a self-taught Impressionist-style painter inspired by the works of Van Gogh and others. Most of all, she is committed to the health and welfare of patients with diseases of the nervous system; she works as a neurosurgery nurse practitioner at a major medical center in New York City.
About the artwork:
“This painting is part of a series inspired by my longing for peace and understanding as I work
#KeepAmericaCovered
Amrita Seehra
About the artist:Â
“Krithika Kavanoor (left) and I are both family-medicine residents at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. As primary-care providers in one of the poorest urban counties in the US, we see firsthand the impact that access to health care–and the lack thereof–can have on our patients. The narratives we share are the personal stories of people who’ve been able to receive health care through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and combined Medicaid/Medicare coverage. Repealing the ACA will deal a serious blow to health justice. The US is the only developed nation that does not recognize health care as a fundamental human
Resilience
Zachary G. Jacobs
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Zachary G. Jacobs is a third-year internal-medicine resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and a member of the Global Health and Underserved Populations track. His professional interests include global health, medical education and narrative medicine. He believes that the world has a story to tell and attempts to capture that story via art, photography, narrative and poetry.
About the artwork:
“I took this photograph in the Galápagos Islands, where I traveled after spending one month volunteering in local hospitals and clinics in
I Love Women
Marla Lukofsky
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Marla Lukofsky is a standup comedian, inspirational speaker, jazz singer, cancer survivor and writer. Her stories have been published in various narrative medicine journals, including Cell2Soul and Health Story Collaborative. With two TEDx Talks to her credit, Marla continues to share her experiences in the hopes of helping others.
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“I drew ‘I Love Women’ while touring the new Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where I was living. At the end of the tour, there was an art room with numerous drawing supplies
We Love USA
Jonathan Giftos
About the artist:Â
“I work as a primary-care doctor at a clinic in the South Bronx. I believe it is part of my job, as a doctor, to advocate for my patients’ health both inside the exam room and out on the streets. I have enjoyed taking photographs since I was a little kid. After a long hiatus, I reconnected with street photography in the fall of 2014 through the Bronx Documentary Center. I particularly enjoy using photography to highlight the strength and beauty of a borough more often known by outsiders for
Patience
Remya Tharackal Ravindran
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Remya Tharackal Ravindran is an internist/geriatrician based in Massachusetts. “Photography is my dose of meditation in action. It straps me to the present moment and forces me to look, rather than merely see. Sometimes we are blinded to things that are staring us in the face, until we begin to ‘look.’”
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“This picture was taken during a regular office visit. This puppy, the constant companion of one of my disabled patients, was snug in the handbag as usual, waiting beside the patient’s daughter. Though the puppy’s stomach was growling with
The Day Grandpa Passed
Michael Leach
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MIchael Leach currently works as a data and quality specialist in a hospital setting. He is also a published researcher, writer, poet and photographer with special interests in health and history. His creative work has been published in The Medical Journal of Australia, Medical Humanities, The Galway Review and Pulse–voices from the heart of medicine. Michael creates visual images in order to capture and share the poignancy and beauty that he perceives in everyday life. He resides in Central Victoria, Australia.
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Enduring Beauty…Rose
Karla Bernstein
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“I recently retired as a nurse practitioner, having worked in women’s health since the 1970s. The mysteries of the ‘how-to’ of health and wellness filled my early professional days. As I matured within the role, I was awed that patients allowed me into some of their most intimate moments and thoughts as we worked together to identify and respond to their health challenges. I realized that it was this trusting partnership that was the foundation for a successful healthcare journey. I saw the beauty of the human body and mind within the illness and aging process. With my
Window Seat
Anthony Oddo
About the artist:Â
Anthony Oddo is a medical student in southwest Ohio. Before entering medical school, he received his degree in anthropology from Emory University, where he studied and produced ethnographic photography. When he is not pursuing his medical degree, he is traveling and volunteering around the globe with his camera in tow. He has visited and photographed places across the US and world, including Mexico, Italy and, most recently, Swaziland, Africa.
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“A group of young schoolboys
Medical History, Reimagined
Sarah Bigham
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Sarah Bigham lives with her kind chemist wife, three independent cats, an unwieldy herb garden and several chronic pain conditions, including interstitial cystitis. Her work can be found at sgbigham.com.
About the artwork:
“As a ‘healthcare consumer’ with an artistic bent, I have found it challenging not only to explain my pain to others but to see my health history told in charts, lists, forms and electronic medical records.