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.
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?
Hello Human
This felt portrait focuses on the need to touch and be touched from the perspectives of both clinician and patient
Things were rubbish until Josie came to love me
The pivotal role of dogs as companions for those living with disability
Touching Patients
Junior doctor comforting an elderly, recently bereaved man in a hospital corridor
Crisis-Point
A home-visit to elderly man provides an unexpected chink of connection through spirituality
Silence is the loudest cry – my approach to depression
Complexities around presenting with anxiety and depression – an informative, patient-based context
I would like you to relieve my pain
Insights into the challenges of supporting chronic pain through case-studies and clinical context
The effect of medical team-work on patient care
An analysis of interconnected network supporting holistic patient care in hospital
Pencil Drawing of an Old Man
Institutionalization and de-personalization in hospital healthcare
Mark
A wheel-chair user’s lived experience is ignored by her GP while a man-to-man chat ensues with her companion
The Renal Transplant Ordeal
The complexities of a kidney transplant, a student’s concern regarding the objectification of the patient in the name of cutting-edge research
The monster under the bed
Undetected socio-emotional issues which may surface following discharge
Climate Transformation and Health Deterioration
Global health and socio-emotional impact on already burdened communities.
Emergency
A pivotal domestic reminder holds a father back from taking his own life
Termination
The emotional aftermath of an unwanted termination
Homonymous Hemianopia
Humorous poem about the impact of a stroke and the daily challenges of living with only seeing half of your immediate environment
Trapped
Prose from the viewpoint of young girl with her mother in consultation -unable to get word in edgewise
Disabled Mind
A teenager with a cleanliness phobia, perpetual hand-cleaning, turns inwards
Old Addicts
Poem about the precariousness of drug addiction
Imagine if?
Images of fruit and vegetables humorously positioned to represent significant and common patients’ clinical anxieties
Postnatal Depression
Powerful image and poem describing the agonizing physical and emotional impact of a traumatic childbirth
The Empathetic Doctor
Composite figure questioning assumptions and identification from cultural/social/gendered/racial and ageist perspectives
Vertigo
Synthesized image inspired by a patient living with distorted vision, fragile balance, and further complications
Support
Image of woman who has lost her child during early pregnancy – in the hands of her sensitive G.P.
The Slipper and the Shoe
A terminally-ill patient’s slipper and the shoe are symbolic of his attitude to life – never to give up
On the Outside
The universally shared complexities and challenges of emotionally supporting others
My Real Image
Patients carry the pain and fear of their loved-ones within their individual medical journey
Unhappy for 9 Years
Living with loss
The Destruction of Stigma
A graphic illustration and documentation of a young man’s acceptance of his HIV diagnosis
It’s all in the genes
A family’s challenges around the acceptance and perceptions of their daughter living with Downs Syndrome
No one
A poetic processing of living with OCD
Face Value
Prose about a young medic feeling he had connected with a patient yet finding her case-notes revealed a very different story
Lady With Pink Hair
Young mother tragically contracting severe neurological condition during clinical treatment and deteriorating rapidly
Beyond Appearances
A student’s observation of a surgeon establishing clinical boundaries
How Can I Ever Forgive Myself?
Prose about a patient’s unbearable grief and guilt and a doctor’s support