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.
Despair
Processing the devastating impact of a diagnosis of clinical depression witnessed in a GP consultation through layers of painting
Childhood Illness : the family impact
The irreversible effect of acute childhood illness on the family as a whole
Jane Doe
An intricate, sensitive analysis of consultation objectives and provision of appropriate holistic support.
Bad News
The perils of clinical burnout and preventative measures are discussed
Hercules
The weight of responsibility in patient-care and maintaining work/life balance
Surgeon Stress
Combined perspectives of a heart surgeon in practice and view of his own heart under medical pressures and the gaze of peers
Trading One Vice For The Other
A gritty encounter with the viscous circle of addiction and sensitive reflection around prevention and shared responsibility
Heart Strings
Employing skills in embroidery and applique to consider the complexities of living with dyslexia
Autism, art and animals
The positive impact of animal companions and the arts for children with autism
A heart
Poetic explorations of the heart in life and love – ‘a work in progress’
My Pain
A young woman’s incapacitating and unvoiced pain – reflection on the need for trust between doctor and patient to achieve vital diagnosis and support
My Mistake
Hypothetical exploration of a young patient dying due to the poet’s oversight
The Shadow of War
A call for increased clinical sensitivity to the impact of PTSD drawing on biographical material
Who says graffiti isn’t art
Musings on a commonly held misconception
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
Framing the Space
A G.P. and medical educator puts herself soundly on the line to develop, interpret and express her commitment to creativity in medicine through the hands-on engagement
Im Abendrot (Eichendorff)
Thoughts around embracing death and learning from the wisdom of age
The Placebo Effect
The impact of colour is considered within placebo medication and how sensory/creative engagement in general contributes to mental health
Connectedness in the Context of Healthcare
Shared humanity across the medical spectrum is valued with exceptional insight
Crumpled Sheets
A multi-sensory embodiment of depression
Fire and Snow
The early trauma of visiting the poet’s mother’s in hospital re-visited
The Impact of Rheumatoid Arthritis
The patient’s shaken life-world when faced with an initially invisible, degenerative condition
Doubt
A young doctor on a ward feeling inadequate and overwhelmed despite his committment to the medical profession
Dear Diary
Prose in diary form – composite fictional account. based on observations of patients in an oncology clinic
Isolation
The necessity of patient-centred care within dementia
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
Recognising the carer as a patient too: focusing on young carers
An insight into shifting family dynamics once a child takes on the role of carer and ways children can be supported within this complex role-reversal
Songs of Courage
Healing through music therapy inspires a student’s poem
A journey to be avoided but not forgotten
Phenomenology as a resource for patients, carers and practitioners
The Art of Touch
Perspectives around of the role of touch between doctor and patient
The Meeting
How an isolated, shared experience, albeit brief – can forge a unique bond and impact on your life
A Little Boy, A Little Time
The heart-wrenching impact of encountering young children with life limiting AIDS/HIV upon the author
Hope
The determination of a mother to ensure her son’s survival following a motor-cycle accident
Healing power of prayer
The role of faith in well-being under multi-perspectives scrutiny
My mind is not my own
A visual and audio interpretation of the impact of a stroke on a particular patient based on his detailed embodied descriptions
11 minutes
A family enmeshed in addiction to smoking – socio/cultural, emotional and medical issues unpicked with compassion
Life… injecting it or sucking it away?
The struggle to break the cycle of addiction explored