Specialties
Medicine is a speciality of specialties. Even recognisable specialities have spawned sub-specialities – your ophthalmologist may focus only on the lens. You too can use OOOH!! to focus on a particular speciality. Of course, many of our artworks are not so easily categorised.
Selected Artworks
OOOH!! Search & Filter
Use the OOOH!! filter system below to locate all the works in OOOH!! which use a particular medium. The dropdown list “Specialties” will reveal all. You can then narrow your search by choosing additional dropdown categories such as Art Forms and Diagnoses.
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
Heart in Your Hands
The privilege of receiving the patient’s heart and soul
A heart
Poetic explorations of the heart in life and love – ‘a work in progress’
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?
The complex mind
A myriad of challenges to individualised, holistic care surface once mental stability is compromised
Orofacial Pain
The all-consuming and fragmenting impact of chronic and acute facial pain
Trapped by Disease
The will to hold onto self-identity within rapidly advancing motor neuron disease
Lady With Pink Hair
Young mother tragically contracting severe neurological condition during clinical treatment and deteriorating rapidly
When Breath Becomes Air
A doctor’s transition to becoming a patient
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
11 minutes
A family enmeshed in addiction to smoking – socio/cultural, emotional and medical issues unpicked with compassion
Asthma
A lyrical interpretation of respiratory challenges
The corridors of death
Clinical encounters during a child’s journey with a life-limiting disability raises questions around the dissonance of the hospital environment
The Wait
The role of patient’s decisions around life-choices within palliative care
Im Abendrot (Eichendorff)
Thoughts around embracing death and learning from the wisdom of age
Matthew John – Died Aged 9 Days
The longitudinal, emotional impact of an infant’s death from the obstetrician’s perspective
Living with Genetic Diseases
Living with genetic conditions: identity and self-worth through the metaphor of a child’s experience of society and lack of agency
Resilience in the siblings of disabled children
An insider perspective around disability within the family unit contextualized through current research
Things were rubbish until Josie came to love me
The pivotal role of dogs as companions for those living with disability
It’s all in the genes
A family’s challenges around the acceptance and perceptions of their daughter living with Downs Syndrome
Specialties
The site has links to many/most of the main medical specialties such as cardiology, neurology, respiratory, palliative care and child health.
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.
What is Not Said
The clinician as a curious, observant, witness
The Space Between Breaths
The value of ‘presence’ in consultations
The Risk May Be in Your Hands
The power of preventative health unwrapped
Panic
Critical Response -Time
Untranslated
Spontaneous gratitude crosses the divide
Shifting Perspectives
Offering a timely hand
Running as a Symbol
Exercise as preventative health tested over life-span
Thorns
The physiological impact of childhood trauma
Blending In
‘Losing yourself’ whilst in hospital considered from patient and healthcare perspectives
First 30 Minutes
Unexpected emotional integration witnessing the ultimate end of life care
Watchful Waiting
Help our patients from falling down the cracks!
The Shape of Grief
‘A different wholeness’ – the nuanced forms of healing
Under Pressure
Individualized calibration of care
Those left Behind
Within current AI technological advances, women’s health is often overlooked.
The Last Thread
Healthcare collapse in Gaza hits home
Halfway to Whole
Rewiring the Brain
Prevention Under The Microscope
Winding back to keep lung disease at bay
Pain goes Unheard
The Echo chamber of Endometriosis
Bone to Stone
Ultra Rare Genetic Disorders: the race against time to cure F.O.P.
Body and Soul
Organ Donation: what remains of identity?
Ticking Time-Bomb
Awaiting surgery – life on the edge
I Know What I Saw
Shifting boundaries between perception and reality in Psychosis
The Art of Explaining
Crafting deep understanding between patients and clinicians
The Lighthouse: Creative enquiry
Betwixt Unpredictability and Homecoming
Act II: Resignation and Respite
Fencing with the Future
Between Storm and Haven
Winding Down
The Lighthouse: Workshop insights
From mind-map to larger than life
BMJ (re-configured)
Mining the ever-shifting layers of dementia
Serendipity
Destination unknown…
Reflections
Processing change and loss
While the tide is gentle
Life-lessons from children
From Behind, Neurodegeneration Revealed
A Shrinking Maitrix
A Stitch of Support
Tangible comfort through acute disruption
Fancy a cuppa?
A ‘brew’…the national liquid balm
Love’s Distance
Precarious premature births – an unbearable parental limbo
Contrast
Individual difference within health expectations and recovery
The Weight of Shared Memories
Caring for a loved-one with dementia
More Than Words
A fresh eye in the wards
Close Observation
Material and emotional care unwound
Hands of Life
Kaylee Macdonald
Visceral Connections
No Space Left On My Plate
The last ingredient in the mix…
Beyond Skin Colour
Embedded racism within healthcare