Beneath the Dura Mater
The balancing act of self-care and caring for others viewed from both physiological and psychological perspectives.
Understanding the True Burden
Strong bonds of family love sustaining a mother living with a chronic and acute ill-health are explored through voice, music and movement
Reflecting on Grief
Recent family bereavement leads this artist to deeply process her hard-won philosophy around life and death – and that of patients
When Breath Becomes Air
A doctor’s transition to becoming a patient
Sleep
Does the doctor take their patients’ challenges home or close this door at the surgery?
Leaking Identity
How much of the clinician’s personality is it appropriate to reveal in professional practices? – coming to terms with integrating ‘new’ roles
Primum non nocere: first do no harm
Tension between the will to ‘cure’ and treatment impairing the patient’s health
To Act in the Best Interests of the Patient
The stressful impact of medical consultations on doctors.
Give me a Hand
Diverse quotes around the current healthcare profession in the public domain
Beyond Physical Boundaries
The significance of giving space to the unknown in consultations
Sweat, Blood and Tears
A student’s personal experience of living with diabetes
Breaking News
Concern around physical and mental exhaustion impairing future sensitive communications with patients and relatives
Doubt
A young doctor on a ward feeling inadequate and overwhelmed despite his committment to the medical profession
The Meeting
How an isolated, shared experience, albeit brief – can forge a unique bond and impact on your life
This is your Grandad
The death of a grandparent highlights tensions between bio-medical knowledges and personal loss.
There was a man…
Insights into the role of humour in clinical practice, and its relation to the trust placed in healthcare professionals
Finding the Pain
Insights from patient drawings bring the impact of clinical consultations to the fore
Doctors in the Movies
A humorous comparison between historical and contemporary models of consultation and home-visit
The Window to the Patient
A celebration of the uniqueness of each individual
The Empathetic Doctor
Composite figure questioning assumptions and identification from cultural/social/gendered/racial and ageist perspectives
Pants
Poem about ‘strange privileges’ of doctors from the banal to the poignant clinical episodes
Why do I feel so guilty about this?
Medical student on a ward with a dying man – feeling unable to comfort him
Hearts Connect
‘Meeting’ the patient in an authentic way – in a memorable consultation