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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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.
All Men are Equal
Psychological, physiological and social components are creatively addressed within a case-study based exploration of the impact of rheumatoid arthritis
Picking Up The Pieces
A musical composition inspired by a suicidal patient living in intolerable circumstances
Life-Line
A GP provides timely support to a patient with addiction
The Future
An emergency hospitalization where the patient is unaware of gravity of her condition
A Patient Examination
Non-dualism in Arts and Science
Listening To A Heart
Really listening patients, their hopes and fears and what has brought them to their doctor in the first place
The Architecture of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Caring and effective doctor-patient relationships from student observations within consultations
A Real Person Too
A young addict unexpectedly finds understanding from the medical profession
Daytime Television
A stark domestic insight into the realities of supporting a loved one with acquired disability
Valerie
Narrative inspired by a profoundly disabled patient – insights around being a passive recipient of multiple interventions
Dealing with Death
Are doctors prepared and resilient when treatment is no longer relevant, in the case of a dying patient and what is the patient’s agenda?
Open Your Eyes – Depression in Medical Students
Challenging misconceptions around medical health issues in medical education, a personal insight conveyed through film and text
Eat Less
The notion that obesity is a self-inflicted is scrutinized after a home visit.
There was a man…
Insights into the role of humour in clinical practice, and its relation to the trust placed in healthcare professionals
The Power of the Environment and Creativity
A multi-faceted representation of the artist’s change over time
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
Resilient Doctors
Views on doctors modelling health in work situations
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
Art in Medicine
The role of portraiture within healing.
Finding the Pain
Insights from patient drawings bring the impact of clinical consultations to the fore
Experience. Inspiration. Knowledge. Growth.
The pivotal role of literature within a student’s medical journey
Love is all around
Collaborative construction inspired by patient insights and shared observations of heart -images emerging from social encounters and the environment
A Vision Gained
A multi-sensory re-evaluation of a grandmother’s visual ‘dis’ / ability
Precious
Fictionalized account of a tender relationship, Sita the life-long companion and carer of her frail husband
The Knot
An analysis of the impact of alcoholism and drug abuse upon the individual, their family and professionals involved
Let Go
A lyrical interpretation of patients’ feelings of being misunderstood and aching to be free
Use Your EQ not just your IQ
Rap based on the need to take an holistic approach during consultation
Desert Rose
An encounter with a young girl in Zimbabwe is pivotal in this poet’s choice of medicine as a career
A Note On Haiku
Imaginative, poetic presentations of medical conditions
Emmanuel – A Gift, Too Soon
An obstetrician’s reflections upon the death of a newborn – from the child’s perspective
Dead Meat
Expectations and practicalities in anatomy sessions jar against thoughts of a donor’s lived experience
Eclipse
The fears of a foster mother to a young adult with Down’s syndrome who is experiencing undiagnosed pain and overwhelming seizures.
Dementia and whole person care
A medical student explores the challenges of connecting with residents in care-homes suffering from dementia and presents an insightful case-study
Sitting Opposite Miss Havisham
A photographic construction of a patient’s experience of agrophobia and anxiety
Fragmented Identity
A stark portrayal of identity-construction post-stroke
Asthma
A lyrical interpretation of respiratory challenges
Little Girl Lost
An illustrated poem reflecting turning points within cycles of depression
The way the doctor sees the patient and how the doctor sees themselves
A portrayal of how parts of a patient’s care can be missed by a lack of holistic care