Patient Perspectives
This collection reveals what really matters to patients in their everyday lives and their relationships to well-being. ‘Voices of experience’ provides critical insights into the fragile complexity of intimate consultations along with visceral insider accounts of hospital experiences. Patient participants in Arts and Health community practices suggest that engagement in creativity may support those living with chronic illness. Increasingly, creative methodologies are valued as participatory vehicles to align patient and healthcare perspectives in progressive medical research.
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Heart
A sensory, tactile 3-D representation celebrating those close at hand
A message to our future doctors
A patient’s careful observation of her GP before presenting the ‘full picture’
Awesome
The artist returns to the charge of birth and re-positions herself as creatively contributing to the shape of her future
Patient Perspectives
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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.
Under Pressure
Medical decision-making when personal health risks are high.
Eating disorder labels re-considered
Intersectionality and gendered assumptions around eating, body and emotions
The Cap
A light-hearted spin on the unwelcome return to chemotherapy.
Waiting
Holding your nerve in Oncology waiting-rooms.
Awesome
The artist returns to the charge of birth and re-positions herself as creatively contributing to the shape of her future
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’
An Inward Scream
Post-surgery return to work whilst recovering from cancer.
Life Saver
Appreciation of a GP’s attention – leading to an early cancer diagnosis
Flying with the Ravens
The all-clear four years after a cancer diagnosis brings heady new horizons
Teflon Man
A patient reflects on his doctor’s delivery of a cancer diagnosis
Ripping, tearing, trapping, snaring
A patient’s visceral experience of surgery and cancer treatment.
Little Things (I missed you)
An inside perspective on the role of the arts whilst living with a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment leads to an international creative initiative
A message to our future doctors
A patient’s careful observation of her GP before presenting the ‘full picture’
A message to our future doctors
The role of empathy in healthcare
A message to our future doctors
Ill-health as a roll of the dice
A message to our future doctors
The legacy of physical violence followed by insensitive attitudes in hospital
Sketchbook
Christine began documenting her environment in a sketchbook between group sessions and later moved towards imagined possibilities and cherished goals
My Life
A word and textile tribute to ‘The Heart’
The Streets of London
A familiar piece of music suddenly resonated powerfully with Lorna opening welcome appreciation of other ways of being
Framed by Anxiety
A representation of the artist’s mother’s long-standing depression as a textile hanging inspired by a Celtic text
Heart
A sensory, tactile 3-D representation celebrating those close at hand
Full Moon
First visit to the surgery art sessions