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This Week in Graphic Medicine in a Stranger Things Stylized Font

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/15 – 2/22/19)

Feb. 22, 2019 by Matthew Noe

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… First, apologies for a lack of an update last week – as many of you know, I live with chronic pain, generally focused on my left leg. It dictates how much energy I have on any given day and sometimes that means doing less, including digital things…. Read More

Categories: This Week in Graphic Medicine Tags: blog, book club, book review, Conference, Event, facebook, Interview, libguide, library, MICE, new england graphic medicine comicon, NNLM NER, podcast, Scholarly, superhero, Twitter, Video, webcomic, webinar

Toteman

Jul. 31, 2017 by Comic Nurse

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http://www.totemansworld.com/pdfs/ToteManOriginClrWeb.pdf

Tags: epilepsy, pediatric, superhero

Nistar

Feb. 12, 2014 by Comic Nurse

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guest review by Ryan Montoya   A hero story has three parts: origin, conflict, and resolution. Nistar, the 2013 graphic novel by first time comic book author and expressive arts therapist Shira Frimer, with art by Joe Rubinstein, is a hero story. All the elements are there. We have our hero in Dr. Jacob Barak, an emergency medicine physician. We have our origin story explaining how Dr. Barak obtained his superpowers. We have our conflict in Dr. Barak trying to defend a young child against an evil force flanked by a dark army. We have our resolution with our hero… Read More

Tags: cancer, pediatric, superhero

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