Coming Apart–a four-part series

“As a medical student at Emory University, I began adding sketches and snippets of dialogue to my notes as a way to spend a bit more time with the patient, to focus more closely on the patient’s expression and to try to capture the essence of our encounter. All of my sketches were unplanned and done in ballpoint pen on whatever scrap of paper was handy, from prescription blanks to paper towels. My jottings of this man’s poignant words filled several pages of a small notepad, from which I created four sequential panels in the graphic medicine style, each with a self-contained story that he shared with me.”