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Spotlight: Shame Spiral

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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

Podcast Episode 11: Nye Wright

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On this week’s episode, I talk with Nye Wright, creator of Things To Do In A Retirement Home Trailer Park When You Are 29 and Unemployed which was recently released in North America by Penn State University Press. Nye discusses what he’s been reading, how he created Trailer Park, his next book project, and his Twitter meet-up which happens this week. You can listen to an image-enhanced version of the podcast here: Or you can find the episode in iTunes here.   Nye recommends four books in our conversation. First is the graphic novel  “TheDivine.” Second is “The Incal.” Third… Read More

Graphic Medicine Podcast: Interview with MK Czerwiec

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You may have noticed an interruption in the podcasting of presentations from Brighton. This has been due to both poor audio quality and time constraints. Hoping to get a few more of those presentations audible and edited before our Baltimore conference. In the meantime, Michael Green was kind enough to interview me, MK Czerwiec, while we were on a mini-speaking tour of Southern California. Michael is a gifted interviewer, and I can babble about Graphic Medicine at a moment’s notice. Hope you enjoy our chat.

New Podcast: Reflection and Practitioner Research

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Panel 2A: Reflection and Practitioner Research, from this past summer’s Graphic Medicine conference in Brighton. The panel was chaired by Rachel Robinson. Images accompany each talk on the panel in the videos below, or the entire panel can be downloaded here. Comics, for the Lost Voices of Medicine: Beth McCausland, Kuruphungma Limbu, Bethany Greenwood, Jaymi Lad A Kid Doctor in the Emergency Department: Adam Gray Drawing Out an Occupation: Francesca Leach What Has Becoming A Doctor Done to Me? : Muna Al-Jawad Muna’s talk is followed by a Q&A with the entire panel.