One step at a time
Managing the steep hill of study in lockdown
Loving a missing lover
The emotional toll of grieving whilst caring for a life-partner
Imposter Syndrome
Underlying student anxieties starkly surfaced by the Pandemic
What’s in front of you
Visceral encounters in the DR
Homelessness – an inside view
Healthcare perspectives around Homelessness
Chalk and Cheese
Individual difference in processing immediate experience
Tackling Menstruation Stigma
‘Natural’ bodily functions and Taboos
Conscious
A rare medical incident highlights the role of care within surgical intervention
The Beginning
A unique documentation of the Pandemic trajectory and legacy
Desk Day
Medical Education in lockdown
Virtual Fog
Reflections around the impact of Covid-19 on medical education reveals a surprising outcome.
Disconnected
The complexities of remote consultations
The Cap
A light-hearted spin on the unwelcome return to chemotherapy.
Beneath the Dura Mater
The balancing act of self-care and caring for others viewed from both physiological and psychological perspectives.
Waiting
Holding your nerve in Oncology waiting-rooms.
Identity: Crisis
Student creative pieces from the 2020 Intercalated B.A. in Medical Humanities
Beyond the patient – Little Girl’s Lullaby
Hearing and being cherished, both life-lines for a spirited young girl with multiple medical challenges, inspired a remarkable composition
The Fabric of Being Human
Learning alongside recovering amputees causes the artist to question the fundamentals of traditional embodiment
The Shadowed Carer
The huge contribution of home-carers to society and their well-being is highlighted during a GP consultation
Understanding the True Burden
Strong bonds of family love sustaining a mother living with a chronic and acute ill-health are explored through voice, music and movement
Reflecting on Grief
Recent family bereavement leads this artist to deeply process her hard-won philosophy around life and death – and that of patients
Giving and Receiving
Donorship – a circle of trust within medical education
The Role of Technology in Healthcare
When faced with the choice between traditional healthcare professionals and new artificial intelligence – who would you trust to be in charge of your care?
A Clockwork Lemon
A Clockwork LemonAnonymousComments Dr Larry Day 06 February 2011 - 12:02:08 "I was suitably disturbed by this. Hippocrates said we doctors should love each other and treat each other with unconditional compassion. When do I do this? Well, if the...
Landscape
Nina Beck
Red and White Domes
Kate Noble
Hospital: A Living Architecture
Appreciation of hospital care by a close relative causes a student to consider this holistic clinical community
To be true to one another in the good times and in bad…
Hearts connect to maintain the pulse of recovery
The complex mind
A myriad of challenges to individualised, holistic care surface once mental stability is compromised
Curiosity
A student’s insight into the sensitive dialogue within consultation places due weight on the gifts of genuine authentic connection in healthcare
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’
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