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Spotlight: Diagnosketch

Mar. 8, 2023 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

Diagnosketch is a colorful, visual book that helps explain medical diagnoses to a non-medical audience. It simplifies human anatomy and pathophysiology into memorable, patient-friendly, understandable images. It conveys complicated medical concepts quickly and effectively. Diagnosketch includes 100+ images of common diagnoses seen in an acute care setting. Kidney stones. Diverticulitis. Gallstones. Ovarian cysts. Medical professionals use Diagnosketch to better communicate with patients in various settings, like Emergency Rooms, Urgent Care Clinics and Primary Care Offices. Over the past 20 years of clinical practice in the ER, I have been creating images to explain medical diagnoses for my patients. As both… Read More

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Filed Under: Spotlight Tagged With: diagnostic images, health literacy, human anatomy, medical diagnosis, patient education

Spotlight: VEOLI

Mar. 8, 2023 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

Graphic Medicine doesn’t always take the form of a book: sometimes it can be a collaboration. This is the case for the Visualizing End of Life Issues group (VEOLI). This international group of graphic recorders, artists, facilitators, death doulas, grief specialists, and authors have practiced listening to people describe their end-of-life thinking and, in real-time, capture these thoughts by making drawings and using words.  Members of VEOLI have devoted over a year to creating and fine-tuning a process for leading people through a journey to capture their thoughts and feelings about their dying and death. Undertaking the very personal experience… Read More

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Filed Under: Spotlight Tagged With: death, end of life, grief, storytelling

New Podcast Episode: Exciting Podcast News!

Feb. 21, 2023 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

This is a short, informational episode teasing some exciting changes coming to the podcast. Here is a link survey post: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/graphic-medicine-podcast-survey/

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Graphic Medicine Podcast Survey

Feb. 21, 2023 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

The Graphic Medicine team is sprucing up the Graphic Medicine Podcast. The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) has set up a committee to expand the podcast! We would like your help! The listeners matter the most. We want to know what you want to listen to. Do you listen to the podcast? Great! Can you give us some ideas about how to make it even better? You don’t listen to the podcast? That’s fine, too. What might make you give it a try? Fill out the Graphic Medicine Podcast survey with your thoughts, ideas and listening habits. You can also… Read More

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New Podcast Episode: Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars Interview

Dec. 22, 2022 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars Cover

MK Czerwiec interviews Rick Louis and Lara Antal on their collaboration creating Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars. Rick Louis allows the reader a look into his experiences having a child with Tay-Sachs disease. He worked with Lara Antal to make the graphic memoir a reality. Rick and Lara discuss how their partnership started and how they communicated to make the best possible story. During the interview Rick Louis mentions a quote: The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel. It is attributed to Horace Walpole quote, but also might have been… Read More

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Filed Under: Podcast, Podcasts Tagged With: graphic memoir, Tay-Sachs

Spotlight: Shame Spiral

Dec. 12, 2022 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

guest post by Juanita Navarro-Páez, PhD student (she/her/hers) The Shame and Medicine Project and The Shame Conversation have been collaborating with Charlotte Wu on a project to produce graphic medicine resources designed to teach medical learners about the impact of shame and other emotions in healthcare, medical learning, and clinical experience. Shame Spiral, created in collaboration with artist Hannah Mumby, is the first comic to come out as a result of this project. Shame is a normal but powerful emotion that, taken to an extreme, can lead medical learners to experience emotional distress, impaired empathy, social isolation, and engage in… Read More

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Filed Under: Spotlight, Uncategorized Tagged With: medical school, mental health, shame

New Podcast Episode: Look Again Discussion with Elizabeth Trembley

Nov. 8, 2022 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

Look Again A Memoir by Elizabeth A Trembley

Alice Jaggers talks with Elizabeth Trembley about her recent book, Look Again. Her memoir follows her various versions of her experience finding a dead body in the woods and the mental companions she has along the way. Both Alice and Beth have experienced trauma, which influences their discussion on the weirdness of trauma, how finicky memory can be, what it means to have a safe space violated, and the importance of using art (especially comics) to heal. After this interview was recorded, Beth hosted Drawing Together (link below)! Elizabeth Trembley’s Bio: Beth grew up knowing herself to be a kid who… Read More

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Filed Under: Podcast, Podcasts Tagged With: memory, trauma

New Podcast Episode: Ripple Effects Discussion about Invisible Disability, Diabetes, and Community

Aug. 18, 2022 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

Ripple Effects a new series that explores life as a superhero with an invisible disability.

Alice Jaggers talks with Jordan Hart, Barbra Dillon and Dr. Theresa Rojas about Ripple Effects. Jordan Hart is a comics creator with many other comics under his belt. This one hits closer to home, because Jordan also has an invisible disability. Barbra Dillon is co-founder of Fanbase Press, which is publishing Ripple Effects. Dr. Theresa Rojas is the professor of Ethnic Studies at Modesto Junior College, founder of the Latinx Comic Arts Festival, and author of the first Unseen Ripples essay. Each of the five issues ends with an Unseen Ripples essay from a person living with an invisible disability…. Read More

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Filed Under: Podcast, Podcasts Tagged With: disability, publishing, thrombophilia, type 1 diabetes

New Podcast Episode: Mom Milestones An Interview with Grace Farris

May. 21, 2022 by Alice Jaggers 1 Comment

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Alice Jaggers interviews Grace Farris on her new book, Mom Milestones: The True Story of the First Seven Years. The book takes the idea of baby milestones and turns it on its head making the focus the mother. Links: Mom Milestones: The True Story of the First Seven Years by Grace Farris Grace Farris on Instagram Graphic Medicine Conference This podcast episode was sponsored by:

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Filed Under: Podcast, Podcasts Tagged With: mental health, parenting

Spotlight: Savita Rani

May. 11, 2022 by Alice Jaggers Leave a Comment

Guest Post by Savita Rani Savita Rani is a physician by training and artist by spirit. She is a Desi woman and a first-generation immigrant settler in Canada. She is a resident physician in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, and also has a Master of Public Health from Queen’s University. She has a special interest in bringing arts and humanities into medical education and public health as tools for practice, teaching, learning and reflection. Her poetry, writing and artwork have been published in international health humanities journals including Ars Medica, Pulse, and Intima: a Journal of Narrative Medicine. The content of my Graphic Medicine work started out describing and working through challenges and struggles… Read More

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