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.
Neglect
A visual interpretation of a patient’s physical and psychological state post-stroke
Tattoo
An elderly merchant seaman’s embodiment and identity seemingly affected by the surgical destruction of a prized tattoo
I am Like an Onion
Meeting an elderly lady with depression – haunted by her horrific childhood experiences in wartime Germany
Just a Reflection
A patient confronting her distorted posture- reflections on living with a degenerative disease
Tolerant Farmer
A stoic farmer reluctant to visit his G.P.
The Die Hard Smoker
An elderly smoker survives against the odds, defiant in his addiction to tobacco
Depression
A suicidal, depressed man confined at home
Nightmares
Tormented by nightmares – a family consultation highlights the crucial role of GP advice beyond the medical
Contact
Dark and light – the complexities of consultations stripped bare
The Caring Doctor
Black humour around a doctor’s cynical outlook
The Snowman
Doctor-snowman made in response to wishes of a terminally-ill patient on a home-visit
The Patient
A traumatic experience of de-humamizing psychiatric care for a medical student in the 1960’s
Targets
Humorous response to government guidelines in general practice
Christmas Decorations
Narrative based on an encounter with an elderly lady in hospital ward not wanting to return home to her isolated existence
My Mother: The Stranger
The poet accompanies his mother through acute clinical depression
Hearts Connect
‘Meeting’ the patient in an authentic way – in a memorable consultation
The Veil
The impossibility of cognitively coming to terms with news of a young baby’s imminent death
Kidney Flower
A patient living well with kidney disease is profoundly inspiring to the artist
The Eyes are the Window to The Soul
The artist suggests an important role of the doctor includes observing patients’ unspoken feelings
Bodies
A powerful poem around survival inspired by a prisoner of war in Burma who now finds himself dying from cancer as was the case for his recently and abruptly deceased wife
Two Women
The emotional fragility of fertility and socio/cultural context
Waiting Rooms
The surgery waiting room – exploring the body language of vulnerability
Whole Person Care
A challenge to holism and creativity within medical education.
The Art of General Practice
Beaming in on an array of symptoms presented by patient
That ‘s not what my doctor in Caithness said…
A doctor and student visit a fiercely independent elderly lady surviving in chaotic living conditions
Make a Difference
An insight into social deprivation through a chance encounter with a local resident
Medical Dilemma
An elderly woman in acute pain, balancing the level of pain-killers in question