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.
OOOH!! Search & Filter
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.
Practise What You Preach
The hypocrisy of an authoritarian doctor with life-style issues lecturing on well-being
BERG Balance
Physiotherapist supporting a patient through a balance test
Real Symptoms
A challenging consultation with a dissatisfied, distraught patient
A Successful G.P. Consultation
Depiction of a positive G.P. consultation as anxiety diminishes
Helping Hands
Institutionalization and learned helplessness in hospital
Waking
Poignant narrative about a wife waking up next to frail and incapacitated husband
U.B.H.T Lost Property
A hospital-gowned patient at hospital desk – seeking his identity
The Patient
A bleak experience visiting a hospitalized friend – the complexities of mental health care
Broken Machine
Long-term in-patient relationship with their healthcare team – the challenge of preserving the individuality of the patient.
Doctor – Patient
The poet’s father, as a doctor finds a stay in hospital enlightening and determines to make positive changes as regards how he interacts his patients
I Have An Interest In Your Heart
A graphic and reflective response to the opt-out policy within organ donation
Patient X
This image and text raises complex issues around dis-empowerment and the quality of the patient’s individual lived experience
Life?
Concern regarding holistic care – review of a cocktail of medications and patient’s well-being and happiness in general
Pants
Poem about ‘strange privileges’ of doctors from the banal to the poignant clinical episodes
David
Challenging patient in residential care and student’s sense of failure in everyday interactions
Just a Reflection
A patient confronting her distorted posture- reflections on living with a degenerative disease
Tolerant Farmer
A stoic farmer reluctant to visit his G.P.
The Die Hard Smoker
An elderly smoker survives against the odds, defiant in his addiction to tobacco
Depression
A suicidal, depressed man confined at home
Nightmares
Tormented by nightmares – a family consultation highlights the crucial role of GP advice beyond the medical
Why do I feel so guilty about this?
Medical student on a ward with a dying man – feeling unable to comfort him
The Caring Doctor
Black humour around a doctor’s cynical outlook
The Snowman
Doctor-snowman made in response to wishes of a terminally-ill patient on a home-visit
The Patient
A traumatic experience of de-humamizing psychiatric care for a medical student in the 1960’s
Targets
Humorous response to government guidelines in general practice
Christmas Decorations
Narrative based on an encounter with an elderly lady in hospital ward not wanting to return home to her isolated existence
Whole Person Care
A challenge to holism and creativity within medical education.
The Art of General Practice
Beaming in on an array of symptoms presented by patient
That ‘s not what my doctor in Caithness said…
A doctor and student visit a fiercely independent elderly lady surviving in chaotic living conditions
Make a Difference
An insight into social deprivation through a chance encounter with a local resident