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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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.
Collaborative Heart Patchwork
Thoughts around arts for health in GP surgeries from Suuad – a patient-artist and poet
A message to our future doctors
A place for clinicians showing their emotions to patients
A message to our future doctors
Compassion for medical students
A message to our future doctors
A smile can be enough
Chispa
‘Returning to life’ more fully through the engagement in the arts
Mum
A patient artist’s New Year goal to be ‘a champion mum’
HEAVY WORDS: Stories From The Cervix
A Bristol art exhibition raises awareness of women’s health issues and triggers cross-community dialogue
The Man in the Corner
Anonymous – A poignant consultation lays bare the diminishing identity, deteriorating health and loss of connection with a patient’s soulmate of forty years
Reassurance
The vital and grounding power of a doctor’s touch at pivotal moments
The Patient
A surreal interpretation of the objectification of the patient once medical humanity is eclipsed
Spots of Patients
Colour-inversion represents patients’ diversity of embodiment and approach to well-being despite identical medical conditions-and clinicians’ variable responses in turn
Hidden Problems
The artist bringing a medical eye to everyday environments
Holding Hands
An exploration of the pivotal role of touch in thriving – both in life’s journey in general and in relation to the medical humanities
The Sun-Bather
The risks of malignant melanoma in exposure to the sun and an exploration of societal pressures regarding ‘tanning’
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
When Breath Becomes Air
A doctor’s transition to becoming a patient
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
Can They Feel The Change?
A haiku about anxiety in the current coronavirus pandemic
The Hand
Disembodiment following a stroke and the patient’s physical and emotional journey to recovery sensitively recorded and interpreted
Lost Identity
The cumulative impact being the prime-carer for others
Stress in Medical Practice by Jack Day
For a variety of reasons, stress in medical practice has always been a major topic of discussion¹. Before looking into the causes and management of stress in medical professionals and students, one must first understand what stress is and the implications that it may have on an individual and others.
Holding My Hand
The value of simply offering a hand within healthcare
Hand in Hand
A celebration of both individual difference and universal connection – front cover of an exploratory illustrated booklet
Leaking Identity
How much of the clinician’s personality is it appropriate to reveal in professional practices? – coming to terms with integrating ‘new’ roles
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
A portrait in time
A fifth-year medical student reflects on individuality and universality in this self-portrait.
An Appointment in Samarra
End of life care from literary and cultural perspectives
Surface Anatomy
Students proposed the development of an app allowing patients to visually connect with inner body structures and together with the clinician, observing specific areas in detail
This Family and Other Drugs
An other-worldly moment when communication challenges post-stroke dissolve in an integrated, multi-sensory experience
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