Clinical Attachments
Clinical experience is the main overarching theme and works wander far. Students rail against perceived hypocrisy, appreciate colleagues from other disciplines, celebrate the fortitude of the infirm, and describe memorable home visits. They tell us about their first independent professional relationships and the delight and difficulties they bring. They deal with patients’ identity in the abstract and in the system and share how their own nascent professional identities grow and conflict.
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Practise What You Preach
The hypocrisy of an authoritarian doctor with life-style issues lecturing on well-being
They Are the Brave
A deeply reflective analysis of patients’ vulnerability and hope within clinical care. Hard-won personal insight has integrated this tension in a simple, poignant and artful poem
The Snowman
Doctor-snowman made in response to wishes of a terminally-ill patient on a home-visit
Breaking News
Concern around physical and mental exhaustion impairing future sensitive communications with patients and relatives
Helping Hands
Institutionalization and learned helplessness in hospital
Clinical Attachments
Clinical experience is the main overarching theme and works wander far. Students rail against perceived hypocrisy, appreciate colleagues from other disciplines, celebrate the fortitude of the infirm, and describe memorable home visits. They tell us about their first independent professional relationships and the delight and difficulties they bring. They deal with patients’ identity in the abstract and in the system and share how their own nascent professional identities grow and conflict.
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Use the OOOH!! filter system below to locate all the works in OOOH!! which use a particular medium. The dropdown list “Perspectives” will reveal all. You can then narrow your search by choosing additional dropdown categories such as Art Forms and Diagnoses.
Jane Doe
An intricate, sensitive analysis of consultation objectives and provision of appropriate holistic support.
Bad News
The perils of clinical burnout and preventative measures are discussed
Hercules
The weight of responsibility in patient-care and maintaining work/life balance
Surgeon Stress
Combined perspectives of a heart surgeon in practice and view of his own heart under medical pressures and the gaze of peers
Trading One Vice For The Other
A gritty encounter with the viscous circle of addiction and sensitive reflection around prevention and shared responsibility
My Mistake
Hypothetical exploration of a young patient dying due to the poet’s oversight
The Shadow of War
A call for increased clinical sensitivity to the impact of PTSD drawing on biographical material
Doubt
A young doctor on a ward feeling inadequate and overwhelmed despite his committment to the medical profession
Dear Diary
Prose in diary form – composite fictional account. based on observations of patients in an oncology clinic
Isolation
The necessity of patient-centred care within dementia
Orofacial Pain
The all-consuming and fragmenting impact of chronic and acute facial pain
Loss
The unexpected emotional impact of a family doctor’s concern for a man whose wife died of cancer
What’s Inside?
A thought-provoking case study of gender ambiguity and identity construction
‘The patient may appear well’ – Amy’s Story
The effect of medically unexplained symptoms and associated complex issues including self-harm
Schizophrenia
Stigma: the impact schizophrenia on a family unit and link with the film ‘A Beautiful Mind’
If in doubt, call it out!
The ward as a stressful environment when clinicians overlook patients’ privacy
Flight
Humorous account of a daughter/carer leaving this role after much provocation
Postcodes: are they a prescribing destiny?
Exploring the notion of post-code lottery regarding oncology treatment drawing on patient responses
How Am I?
Prose inspired by meeting a distraught, terminally-ill mother who had just given birth
Diagnosis: Loneliness
The impact of loneliness on individual well-being – a student’s social experiment
The Appearance of Disease
A student visualises patients from their medical notes pre-consultation
Pseudo Life
A carer places her considerable health issues at one remove despite her GP’s concerns
Taking History
An insight into the impact a diagnosis of breast cancer upon a close-knit family
All Men are Equal
Psychological, physiological and social components are creatively addressed within a case-study based exploration of the impact of rheumatoid arthritis
Picking Up The Pieces
A musical composition inspired by a suicidal patient living in intolerable circumstances
Life-Line
A GP provides timely support to a patient with addiction
The Future
An emergency hospitalization where the patient is unaware of gravity of her condition
A Patient Examination
Non-dualism in Arts and Science
Listening To A Heart
Really listening patients, their hopes and fears and what has brought them to their doctor in the first place
The Architecture of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Caring and effective doctor-patient relationships from student observations within consultations
A Real Person Too
A young addict unexpectedly finds understanding from the medical profession
Daytime Television
A stark domestic insight into the realities of supporting a loved one with acquired disability
Valerie
Narrative inspired by a profoundly disabled patient – insights around being a passive recipient of multiple interventions
Dealing with Death
Are doctors prepared and resilient when treatment is no longer relevant, in the case of a dying patient and what is the patient’s agenda?
Eat Less
The notion that obesity is a self-inflicted is scrutinized after a home visit.
Resilient Doctors
Views on doctors modelling health in work situations
Little Girl Lost
An illustrated poem reflecting turning points within cycles of depression
The way the doctor sees the patient and how the doctor sees themselves
A portrayal of how parts of a patient’s care can be missed by a lack of holistic care
The Twilight Years
Poignant narrative about a widow’s first day as a resident in a care home
Alzheimer’s Disease
Portrait depicting the isolation of Alzheimer’s disease
Trapped by Disease
The will to hold onto self-identity within rapidly advancing motor neuron disease
Dr Jones always tried to put himself in his patients shoes
How best can medics achieve this?