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Diabetes is After Your Dick!

Nov. 28, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Cathy Leamy (Metrokitty) has put her comic “Diabetes is After Your Dick” online. It is also available for purchase from her site. Leamy presented on this patient education comic at the 2012 Toronto Comics & Medicine conference. The podcast of her talk is here. Guest review by Sumin Kim, student in the “Comics Narratives: Illness, Disability, & Recovery” course, Art Therapy Program,  School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I chose to review the comic “Diabetes is after your dick!” among a bunch of books because the title was so fascinating to me. Diabetes, relating to dick? How interesting! It is really… Read More

Tags: diabetes, erectile dysfunction, male health, patient education

New Podcast Wednesday: Lydia Gregg and Iggy & The Inhalers

Aug. 29, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. This is the second half of the “Comics in Patient Education” panel from this year’s Graphic Medicine conference in Toronto. If you are able, be sure to check out the images that accompany both the talks as they are quite impressive! First up is Lydia Gregg with her paper, “Interpreting the unfamiliar: comics as a tool for improving care of pediatric patients with retinoblastoma.” The comic and treatment diary Lydia discusses can be viewed on the study… Read More

Categories: Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: asthma, Iggy & The Inhalers, Johns Hopkins, Lydia Gregg, medical illustration, patient education, pediatric, retinoblastoma, Toronto, University of Wisconsin

New Podcast Wednesday: Comics in Patient Education, Part One

Aug. 22, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. The first panel podcast from the 2012 Toronto Comics & Medicine conference is on the topic of Comics in Patient Education. In part one of this panel, we will hear from Cathy Leamy and Allison Zemek. The full Q&A from the panel will follow next week’s podcast. Cathy Leamy is an independent cartoonist, specializing in autobiography, humor, and education. She also works as a web developer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, USA, building… Read More

Categories: Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: Allison Zemek, Boston, Cathy Leamy, children, comics, diabetes, diet, erectile disfunction, exercise, Massachusetts General, medical humanities, Metrokitty, nutrition, patient education, pediatric, Stanford

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