Home Front
Narratives of family and identity issues are paramount in this work. Early years students often dealt with things in relation to what we term the ‘home front’. This reflects the relative proximity of life at home. Topics include sibling love, siblings lost, ill grandparents, parental love gone wrong or gone to drink. Some write in the language of home. They also share their personal experiences of physical and mental ill health.
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My Family
The ground from which we grew
Who am I?
Medics question their roles, values and identities
Wounded Healer
Being ill, receiving care and adapting to persistent problems
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Distance
Poignant musings about the student’s younger sister and potentially diminishing bonds
Can They Feel The Change?
A haiku about anxiety in the current coronavirus pandemic
Living with Alcoholism
The author’s experience as child/carer alongside her mother’s addiction
Thirst
Poem about author’s initial denial of diabetes
Reflecting on Grief
Recent family bereavement leads this artist to deeply process her hard-won philosophy around life and death – and that of patients
Mum
Searingly honest poem about a son’s changing relationship with his mother after she has a severe stroke
Brother and Sister
Painting of the artist as a child with her sibling, from a long-lost photograph and this image becoming a talisman for the extended family
Home Front
Explore further through the following sub sections.
My Family
The ground from which we grew
Who am I?
Medics question their roles, values and identities
Wounded Healer
Being ill, receiving care and adapting to persistent problems
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From Behind, Neurodegeneration Revealed
A Shrinking Maitrix
A Stitch of Support
Tangible comfort through acute disruption
Fancy a cuppa?
A ‘brew’…the national liquid balm
Love’s Distance
Precarious premature births – an unbearable parental limbo
Contrast
Individual difference within health expectations and recovery
The Weight of Shared Memories
Caring for a loved-one with dementia
More Than Words
A fresh eye in the wards
Close Observation
Material and emotional care unwound
Hands of Life
Kaylee Macdonald
Visceral Connections
No Space Left On My Plate
The last ingredient in the mix…
Beyond Skin Colour
Embedded racism within healthcare
Skin Conditions: diagnostic inequalities
Addressing a visual references defecit
Explosion
Migraine made visible
Patient Advocacy
Judging the time to step in
When Morning Meets it’s End
A profound lesson in life and death
White Walls, Dark Truths
Who is truly seen, believed, protected?
Out of Touch
Fractured communities trigger a collective hug mosaic
Beneath the Surface
Peeling back layers of negative rumination in creative collaboration
LGBQT+ Inclusivity in biomedical research
Creative perspectives in Life Sciences
Porcelain Blues
Complexities of embodied trauma
Looking Beyond Normal
Historic gender bias in medicine
Eating disorder labels re-considered
Intersectionality and gendered assumptions challenged.
It’ll get better on its own…
The invisibility of mental health with a focus on socialised masculinity.
Cut from the Same Cloth
Textiles provide a window to a multitude of shared biological patterns.
Endlessness
The cycle of complexities and contrasts within NHS patient-care.
Inside the Walls of a Vaccination Centre
challenges to public health unpicked
Losing Sight
A tangible lesson following a patient’s story deflected
Losing Sight
A tangible lesson following a patient’s story deflected.
Mother and Child
The family toll of children’s long-term stays in hospital.
My Hands are Tied
Struggles and Life-lines in a healthcare crisis
Blinking Bleeps…
Hospital soundscapes: missed opportunities?
Bleach
Identity in hospital end-of-life care
There is a story behind every doctor
Do patients make the best doctors?
Deep Waters
Looking beyond the surface reveals a profound fear of illness and mortality
The Aching Soul
Chronic emotional trauma makes its mark
Just Rest
The role of rest within healthcare
Learning from hands-on anatomy
Gratitude to donors for their invaluable role within medical education
A coat of NHS ethnicities
Celebrating NHS diversity inspires a richly symbolic garment
Who am I, behind the bars?
Holistic care within a fragmented prison system?
Divided land, hand in hand
An indigenous community provides vital health insights to the industrialised world
Permanence
Women surgeons’ experiences of abuse by male colleagues
Under Pressure
Medical decision-making when personal health risks are high.