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.
Long Dark Tunnel
Image from the perspective of a elderly patient whose world is rapidly shrinking due to anxiety about her infirmity
Big Black Dogs
Metaphorical musing around depression as something which cannot be shaken off
The Struggle
The tension between the will to thrive and a body cumulatively challenged by ill-health
Abnormal
Concern for a young woman patient living with chronic pain and skin disfigurement – compounded by a detached parent
Pseudo Life
A carer places her considerable health issues at one remove despite her GP’s concerns
Taking History
An insight into the impact a diagnosis of breast cancer upon a close-knit family
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
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
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
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.
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
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
The Twilight Years
Poignant narrative about a widow’s first day as a resident in a care home