Home Front
Narratives of family and identity issues are paramount in this work. Early years students often dealt with things in relation to what we term the ‘home front’. This reflects the relative proximity of life at home. Topics include sibling love, siblings lost, ill grandparents, parental love gone wrong or gone to drink. Some write in the language of home. They also share their personal experiences of physical and mental ill health.
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My Family
The ground from which we grew
Who am I?
Medics question their roles, values and identities
Wounded Healer
Being ill, receiving care and adapting to persistent problems
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Distance
Poignant musings about the student’s younger sister and potentially diminishing bonds
Can They Feel The Change?
A haiku about anxiety in the current coronavirus pandemic
Living with Alcoholism
The author’s experience as child/carer alongside her mother’s addiction
Thirst
Poem about author’s initial denial of diabetes
Reflecting on Grief
Recent family bereavement leads this artist to deeply process her hard-won philosophy around life and death – and that of patients
Mum
Searingly honest poem about a son’s changing relationship with his mother after she has a severe stroke
Brother and Sister
Painting of the artist as a child with her sibling, from a long-lost photograph and this image becoming a talisman for the extended family
Home Front
Explore further through the following sub sections.
My Family
The ground from which we grew
Who am I?
Medics question their roles, values and identities
Wounded Healer
Being ill, receiving care and adapting to persistent problems
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.
There is a story behind every doctor
Do patients make the best doctors?
Broken Bristol
Reverberations of a distorted introduction to your University location
Boxed-in
The complexities of embedding medical learnings from within a remote capsule
The experience of being a first-year during co-vid
Questions around self-identity, community and educational expectations triggered by the Pandemic
From a Distance
The tight-rope of students’ maintaining wellbeing and mental health across the Pandemic
One step at a time
Managing the steep hill of study in lockdown
Imposter Syndrome
Underlying student anxieties starkly surfaced by the Pandemic
Virtual Fog
Reflections around the impact of Covid-19 on medical education reveals a surprising outcome.
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
Can They Feel The Change?
A haiku about anxiety in the current coronavirus pandemic
Holding My Hand
The value of simply offering a hand within healthcare
Leaking Identity
How much of the clinician’s personality is it appropriate to reveal in professional practices? – coming to terms with integrating ‘new’ roles
Reach Out
Personal insight into medical student stress and the role of counselling
‘But Gampo, your carpet’s dirty’
The author as a child’s attempts to process being alongside a dying relative and reflections around how is grief is experienced across time
Between the Cracks
A doctor’s primary duty is patient care; however, what about their own well-being?
Snakes in the heart
Artist coming to terms with diabetes and starting to trust her body again after sense of betrayal
Canadian Geese
A mother and daughter share their appreciation of natural forms and systems and walking as a nurturing connection
Life’s Last Chapter
A grand-daughter’s insight into the nurturing role of the natural environment both at first and second-hand at the end of life
The Jigsaw of Recovery: caring for anxiety
The fragile nature of supporting anxiety from the perspective of a daughter and carer : clinical and personal perspectives
Inflamed and Untamed
A sister describes the physiological and psychological of impact brother’s journey from the onset of Ulcerative Colitis and the impact on close family
From steroids to self healing – a patient’s journey
A daughter’s insight into her mother’s healing process and an exploration into the concept of self-healing and holism
Heart Strings
Employing skills in embroidery and applique to consider the complexities of living with dyslexia
A Patchwork of my Experiences
Personal insight into paediatric intensive care from staff perspective – and emotional challenges around modes of maintaining clinical professionalism
Resilience in the siblings of disabled children
An insider perspective around disability within the family unit contextualized through current research
Metamorphosis
Striving towards holism within medical education
Happy Birthday Helen
Considering the shortened life of the author’s elder sister
Lost
Bereavement and resilience: a personal perspective following family loss
Attention: This Building is Unsafe and Likely to Collapse
A daughter shares how her mother handled terminal lung disease both through writing poetry and publishing practical ideas to support family and friends through a cancer diagnosis
Happy Pills
The value of simply offering a hand within healthcare
Living with Alcoholism
The author’s experience as child/carer alongside her mother’s addiction
Thirst
Poem about author’s initial denial of diabetes
This is your Grandad
The death of a grandparent highlights tensions between bio-medical knowledges and personal loss.
The Ripple Effect
Conflicts and complexity of care – inspired by a mother’s personal experience
CANCER?
A medical student’s mixed response to his mother’s suspected cancer diagnosis
Open Your Eyes – Depression in Medical Students
Challenging misconceptions around medical health issues in medical education, a personal insight conveyed through film and text
Mum
Searingly honest poem about a son’s changing relationship with his mother after she has a severe stroke
The Impact of Chronic Illness on Lifestyle
Symbolic acknowledgement of a close family-member’s courage through chemotherapy by removing of a lock of the artist’s own hair
Stress in Medical Practice
Opening up conversations about stress in medical practice
Depression
A personal account of depression – family and peer response and stigma around revealing mental health issues
Feeble, Precarious, Existence
A doctor’s perspective whilst dying of heart disease – empty bed and candles
Paint my Canvas
A student chooses to minutely absorb and process a deeply shared patient experience around terminal illness using poetry as method of learning from this privileged gift