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.
Conscious
A rare medical incident highlights the role of care within surgical intervention
Disconnected
The complexities of remote consultations
The Shadowed Carer
The huge contribution of home-carers to society and their well-being is highlighted during a GP consultation
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
Hospital: A Living Architecture
Appreciation of hospital care by a close relative causes a student to consider this holistic clinical community
The complex mind
A myriad of challenges to individualised, holistic care surface once mental stability is compromised
Curiosity
A student’s insight into the sensitive dialogue within consultation places due weight on the gifts of genuine authentic connection in healthcare
The Bold Explorer
Hayley Penhale – Patient determined to forge a positive relationship with his health following a cancer diagnosis
A Silent Society
Living with a stutter- an exploration of historical and cultural perspectives
Organ Manufacture
Questions around the ethics of new technologies and a culture of throw-away organs
The Spider
A multi-faceted interpretation of living with mental illness inspired by a GP consultation
A Bitter Pill
Young male suicide statistics triggered this joint exploration into the need for adequate support-systems to be in place – before crisis-points are reached
Love is Blinding: saving newborns’ sight
Global attitudes to sexual health under the microscope
Sleep
Does the doctor take their patients’ challenges home or close this door at the surgery?
Human to Human
The in-the-moment challenges of juggling clinical and individual readings of a patient whilst developing clinical insights and consultation skills
Lost Identity
The cumulative impact being the prime-carer for others
Primum non nocere: first do no harm
Tension between the will to ‘cure’ and treatment impairing the patient’s health
The chair-shaped space
Triangulating perspectives in GP consultations
An Appointment in Samarra
End of life care from literary and cultural perspectives
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
Bad News
A broad view of the hidden, visceral impact of diagnosis on the patient, family and extended community-potentially mis-interpreted as dis-engaged during the emotional process of adjustment
Lost to Dementia
The role of memory within dementia
Flowers
Exploring the intertwined role of clinical care and family support through flora
The Art of the Patient-Narrative
The challenges of describing physical symptoms verbally
The Barrier of Medical Jargon
A plea for less clinical terminology used in consultations to build a more participatory relationship between clinicians and patients
Heart in Your Hands
The privilege of receiving the patient’s heart and soul
Infertility
A GP consultation inspired exploration into the cultural stigma and emotional impact of infertility
To Act in the Best Interests of the Patient
The stressful impact of medical consultations on doctors.
Can curing do more harm than good? – The danger in creating ‘normality’.
Thoughts on the definition of gender – normality as a spectrum
The corridors of death
Clinical encounters during a child’s journey with a life-limiting disability raises questions around the dissonance of the hospital environment
Life Sentences
A mother gives birth and returns to jail without her baby – what is gained from this arrangement?
The Arms of Isolation
Loneliness and anxiety around media coverage of NHS
Give me a Hand
Diverse quotes around the current healthcare profession in the public domain
Donation
Complexity and apathy around organ and whole-body donation
The Wait
The role of patient’s decisions around life-choices within palliative care
Loose Threads
This artwork represents the imagined life of a street worker – a composite character inspired by the work of the Bristol charity One25
The Reach
Questions around how certain cancers dominate the attention of the media, health services and government spending.
The art of adding beauty to the brain
A GP’s approach to living with dementia as an opportunity for growth in herself offers unorthodox, positive, alternatives
JK’s Story
A patient’s story following a traumatic family incident through addiction and isolation to a hard-won re-connection to society and regaining well-being
Acknowledging emotional reactions in newly diagnosed patients
The complexity of processing diagnoses
Living with Genetic Diseases
Living with genetic conditions: identity and self-worth through the metaphor of a child’s experience of society and lack of agency
The Individuality of Illness
Three patients’ diverse approaches to challenging medical conditions are sensitively explored and interpreted through imagery and deeply considered prose