‘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…
This week there can be no question of what to highlight, as on February 1st the AMA Journal of Ethics issue dedicated to Graphic Medicine and Health Care Ethics went live! You may recall seeing me share and post the call-for-papers for this issue over-and-over last Summer – ironically enough, I never managed to submit a proposal myself with all the travel I was doing to promote the field. Hah!
The issue is edited by Taylor Olmsted, MD, a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow and Michael Green, MD, a physician and bioethicist (one of the founding members of Graphic Medicine). The articles – which include comics and a podcast – are authored by a veritable Who’s Who of graphic medicine and I would need the entire length of this week’s post to highlight them all. Lucky for us, there’s an About the Contributors page at the bottom of the issue’s table of contents.
As we all know, graphic medicine is a massively interdisciplinary field, meaning there are likely times what I share here has little interest for some of you. But fear not, for that is not the case with this issue! There are articles on everything from Ethics Cases to Medical Education to History of Medicine and more. That said, it is surprising to not see an explicit article about art therapy in this issue – perhaps a group we need more direct attention to.
Since there is so much here, throughout the coming weeks, Graphic Medicine social media gurus MK and Ian – and myself – will be highlighting each article. Perhaps one a day or so. And while getting the word out like this is great in its own right, what would make this even better is if YOU would share your thoughts on those postings. Opening up the scholarly conversation on social media gives us a chance to explore together and also show those not already sold on the idea of comics in medicine more opportunity to become sold. I’ll end this rambling with two tweets I sent today, highlighting further my excitement with this issue going live. ‘Til next time!
I was already looking forward to reading “Are Comic Books Appropriate Health Education Formats to Offer Adult Patients?”, but now I’m doubly-so because I think this is my first time being included in a reference list! https://t.co/MOD4fAkfSN pic.twitter.com/9ADKcS7EWy
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 2, 2018
This month’s AMA @JournalofEthics is a special edition on ‘Graphic Medicine and Health Care Ethics’. If you’ve wondered why we have comics in our collection, the articles here will tell you why! https://t.co/b0LlFZzOXd pic.twitter.com/u52uNJy4nh
— UMMS Library (@UMMSLibrary) February 2, 2018
Articles & More…
Event: A Conversation about Graphic Medicine
Webcomic: Empathy: The Throw Pillow Rule of Thumb… via @NathanAGray
Webcomic: Why I Quit the Army
Webcomic: Not Our Choice: A Comic on a Big Decision for a Tiny Person
Webcomic: This Cartoon Poignantly Illustrates How We Experience Inherited Trauma
Webcomic: Parenting Hungover: The Downsides via @TheNib
Scholarly: Introducing the Journal of Sketching Science
Scholarly: Applications open now for the 2018 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award!
Scholarly: Arts & Humanities in Medical School Promote Empathy & Inoculate Against Burnout
Scholarly (Blog): Creating comics with clients via @DrDevlyn
Scholarly: A Graphic Dissertation in Progress via @BurdockArt
Scholarly: “Does the Health Librarian have a role to play in the development & engagement with Graphic Medicine for end users health literacy?” (Conference Presentation 2/20/18)
Blog: Continuing the Graphic Medicine Initiative and a Farewell from Matthew Noe
Blog: Opening Doors for All Students: Comics Featuring Characters with Disabilities
Interview: Interview with ‘Forged by Fire’ artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood via @rebeccawynter
Interview: Balancing Act: A Doctor Who Creates Cartoons for The New Yorker
Book Review: PSIQUIÁTRICO I (EL FRENOPÁTICO)
Book Review: Review: Anxiety is Really Strange by Steve Haines
Video: La Medicina en el Cómic via @SabariegosCharo
Video: Black Women in Medicine: Shirlene’s Story ShirlyWhirl, MD
Podcast: Biomedical Communications: Andrea Gauthier, Shelley Wall and Jodie Jenkinson via @UTM_Research
Podcast: All About Books – Carnival of Contagion
Narrative Medicine: How to Not Die in America
Graphic novel unmasks anxiety, self-doubt of medical students
Understanding Grief via @marjoriesue
100 Must-Read Comics About Brave People Who Aren’t Superheroes
Future Physician, Heal Thyself: Get Thee to a Gallery
Competing narratives paint a tale of complex bodies in The Lie And How We Told It
An artist just explained why depressed people feel tired all the time, and it’s going viral
8 Graphic Novels and Memoirs that Will Give You the Feels
Tweets…
@NoetheMatt Hey Matthew, I have a PharmD student looking into narrative medicine and maybe expanding to graphic medicine for a research project. Do you have a resource guide?
— ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Franklin Sayre ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@mysnuggle) January 26, 2018
Oh that’s great. @pfanderson‘s libguide is a good starting place – and it has a link to a webinar I did on it. From there, best bet is to read the Graphic Medicine Manifesto and probably Rita Charon’s Narrative Medicine book. https://t.co/uhZQTo59nE
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 26, 2018
And this is out-of-date (updating hopefully mid-March), but as good a starting point for scholarly articles on GM as any: https://t.co/jk4UIoaTzh
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 26, 2018
Want to easily search the @UMMSLibrary #GraphicMedicine collection? This link’ll do it! https://t.co/rJauNT6Ltz
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 26, 2018
Also: our collection is 160 books (+3 on order) strong!
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 26, 2018
Interested in #GraphicMedicine? Then save the date: 1 March 2-3.30pmET/7-8.30pmGMT FREE Livestream from ??National Library of Medicine “A Conversation about Graphic Medicine” with @NLMdirector +@ellen_forney + @mjg15 + @comicnurse https://t.co/KQWivYva0u … pic.twitter.com/cD2ohEXIdi
— Init4Health (@Init4Health) January 26, 2018
“Whenever I think comics are not capable of something, somebody always proves me wrong.” @scottmccloud
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 26, 2018
This is especially true for journalistic or memoir (#GraphicMedicine) comics. Those imperfections, for me, are almost a requirement for any sort of work trying to tell an honest account. That clumsiness, somehow, make it feel… true.
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 26, 2018
This nagging approach to counseling on med adherence never seems to work. As @metrokitty points out, there is a big emotional component to taking medications. (But it was still a fun first attempt at #GraphicMedicine for me) pic.twitter.com/Zwd8o3mYmS
— Simha Reddy (@SimhaReddyMD) January 27, 2018
Challenge or Opportunity? Long sessions in the #Doctor’s office can leave some #patients feeling peckish. Would we do well to offer #food service? (more than, say, crackers n juice…and def peanut free, right?). #patientexperience #hanger prevention. #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/gip6RJGE8G
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) January 28, 2018
I love the use of the term ill-conceived here. This is what I find so interesting about graphic medicine–at its best it’s interested in the conjunction illness-thought-politics in history. #GraphicCultures18 https://t.co/yp5sZ7uP49
— Lisa Diedrich (@lldiedrich) January 28, 2018
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El 30 de noviembre en Zaragoza tendremos el honor de organizar el
I Congreso Nacional de Medicina Gráfica y bajo el magnífico paraguas del @iacs_aragon #ConMedicinaGráfica
¡¡Marcad ya vuestro calendario!! Os esperamos.
Programa espectacular ?️✏️?️? pic.twitter.com/qYjMHN4Awx— medicina-grafica (@GraficaMedicina) January 28, 2018
Hospital closure notice in the midst of zombie apocalypse (I AM A HERO, vol.5) #GraphicMedicine
“please be advised that you may be considered a threat to the nation” pic.twitter.com/Mw94nUq0ux— Thomas Maluck (@LiberryTom) January 28, 2018
Robot x Laserbeam, in which golf and #GraphicMedicine collide pic.twitter.com/lnWobhpo1e
— Thomas Maluck (@LiberryTom) January 28, 2018
#Comic Heroes of Health 1913.
Stories of Sirs H Dale and A Wright, and D Chick, whose pioneering research into the nervous system, immunisation and vitamin-deficiency disease, respectively, has changed our lives.
< @Init4Health @NoetheMatt @miriamriig https://t.co/9YsJQPdY0I pic.twitter.com/m4DKdhNV5L— Blanca Mayor Serrano (@mayorserrano) January 29, 2018
The term @GraphicMedicine was coined by Dr Ian Williams, author of The Bad Doctor -a favorite.. His site and the BMJ article by @mjg15 will help, as will contacting @NoetheMatt (aka The Graphic Librarian) ian, Michael and Matthew are Graphic Med rockstars and lovely people too https://t.co/PNNdAAExmh
— Peter Lloyd Jones (@studioscientist) January 29, 2018
Hi @_Continuum! It’s hard to overstate how exciting it is to have the @nlm_news Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn exhibit up and running. You can find more on it – including some great curriculum ideas here: https://t.co/ztUzwLpsnv
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 29, 2018
.@GraphicMedicine #Comics #JulesFeiffer https://t.co/x94jWg6aoe
— Medical Narratives (@MedNarrative) January 29, 2018
ICYMI, the CDC “BAM!” series page has a few comics called “Ask a Scientist”. #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/HeQIMjelKc via @CDCgov
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 29, 2018
The “Graphic Medicine” exhibit from @nlm_news is on display on @UNT_Libraries Willis 2nd Floor! #comics #medicalhumanities https://t.co/aCSgpDUscp pic.twitter.com/0Hpi9YvQbN
— DH @ UNT (@DH_UNT) January 29, 2018
Does this discussion of the “writerly text” not sound like the way we discuss the gutter in comics – the way they ask the reader to fill in the story? (From Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness) #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/fdkqL0MPCu
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 29, 2018
#HIPAA #patientprivacy @noethematt https://t.co/ATnyIVryGA
— Teresa McGinley (@infobendr) January 29, 2018
ProTip: Don’t study with 2nd year #MedicalStudents…unless you too want to #diagnose yourself with the #diseases you are learning about. (#stress has a funny way of warping your perspective). #GraphicMedicine #SecondYearSyndrome. #meded pic.twitter.com/VfHMweQZmk
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) January 30, 2018
The #science behind #anxiety is explained in this engaging and highly original graphic medicine book, with in-depth analysis of where anxiety comes from, what it means for your body, and how to turn it into something #positive https://t.co/q36tMKVwK8 pic.twitter.com/vjqL39ht7I
— Singing Dragon Books (@Singing_Dragon_) January 30, 2018
How NOT to take a #history. Make human contact in spite of (Not instead of) the #EMR…#graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/HdgyEduQo5
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) January 30, 2018
#graphicmedicine #NLM pic.twitter.com/bs5RABHfln
— Samarth Swarup (@samarth_swarup) January 30, 2018
#graphicmedicine #NLM pic.twitter.com/fVRiD2xdo3
— Samarth Swarup (@samarth_swarup) January 30, 2018
Okay. Submitted a talk proposal for Comics & Medicine 2018:
“Conveying the Depression Experience through Comics” #graphicmedicine— Kate Deibel (@metageeky) January 31, 2018
“A quadriplegic man, Kevin Stout, becomes the reluctant sidekick to a newly sentient mechanical wheelchair hellbent on fighting crime.” https://t.co/0qfPz9oIAt #disability #comics #GraphicMedicine
— P. F. Anderson (@pfanderson) January 31, 2018
We goin’ to the club… digital clubbing explained- in pictures: pic.twitter.com/RPCKjl3xvi
— Mike Natter, MD (@mike_natter) January 31, 2018
This! Weighing the cost of sharing information is vital to good patient relationships. It is also a key part of educating people about #PrecisionMedicine or any other genetic involved health. There are risks to knowing that may outweigh risks to NOT knowing. #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/ztMdE6KDuT
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 31, 2018
If it is GN length, @MyriadEditions and/or @PSUPress perhaps. If it is shorter, then @AnnalsofIM‘s graphic medicine series may be appropriate.
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 2, 2018
Don’t forget, the @JournalofEthics Discussion, Using Comics to Promote Person-Centered Medicine, starts February 7th! #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/6oGl0SOcks
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) January 31, 2018
Love this idea! #graphicmedicine #artsinmedicine #sketchnotes https://t.co/MVqqIHVMUg
— Lisa (@docshannon) February 1, 2018
No kidding. #AIDS is a serious thing.
Strip AIDS USA. Condomania, by Ken Steacy, 2013.#cartoon #SafeSex#GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/PsrooF50bC— Blanca Mayor Serrano (@mayorserrano) February 1, 2018
Is #Screen management the new Bedside Manner? Increasingly, #clinicians are challenged (and their #patients are measuring them by) by their ability to connect, and for those in their care to felt they were listened to (vs sitting while their #data was entered). #Graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/lv8hVANLS7
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) February 1, 2018
‘Like an Orange’ work in progress, collaboration with #braininjury survivors @HeadwayELondon – sky by Sean. Currently #crowdfunding with @unbounders – please pledge your support here https://t.co/aBH5n2IFSg #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/D3C0yb52Lq
— Wallis Eates (@WallisEates) February 1, 2018
I just noticed that my book is pictured between two books on low self-esteem on the @overcominglb website. One look inside will tell you that is a pretty accurate placement. #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/4ueqmpIwSj
— Robert Wells (@RobertDWells) February 1, 2018
Our February issue on the power of comics for conveying patient experiences and guiding clinician and patient learning is online today! Check it out here #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/l6kXVsplu7 pic.twitter.com/Jpji5iHfSN
— AMA Journal of Ethics (@JournalofEthics) February 1, 2018
My latest essay is out today in the AMA @JournalofEthics: Representations of Patients’ Experiences of Autonomy in Graphic Medicine. https://t.co/4HT8j45V86
— Mark Tschaepe (@mdtschaepe) February 1, 2018
Want to learn how to use comics in clinical or educational settings? Join our online discussion forum and swap strategies with experts like @BoosterShotCmx @alexthomas2! Forum opens Feb. 7 but you can register today #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/cC8AorWI8r
— AMA Journal of Ethics (@JournalofEthics) February 1, 2018
Sometimes small decisions make a difference in patient outcomes. Annals #graphicmedicine uses animations, comics, and the graphic novel style to tell compelling medical stories https://t.co/ARS9Eu3qkU . pic.twitter.com/c51Ck4UHkr
— Annals of Int Med (@AnnalsofIM) February 1, 2018
(@Lunarbaboon) pic.twitter.com/jhJ34C6QPE
— Chantelle Campbell (@ctellecampbell) January 31, 2018
If you want to understand when, why, and how to use #graphicpathographies with the goal of enhancing #medicaleducation and #patientcare, read my book on #GraphicMedicine applied to #MedEd.https://t.co/A8VeaGR4Gw#Spanish pic.twitter.com/nLMGoKHQuv
— Blanca Mayor Serrano (@mayorserrano) February 1, 2018
Worth revisiting, #GraphicMedicine / Comic Storytelling in Medicine https://t.co/VC14jjtmw3 via @DoctorsCreate
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 1, 2018
The article on graphic pathography is on point. Many of us now learn microbiology through graphic story telling. @SketchyMedical saved me many hours of reading pages of clinical micro
— Max Jordan N (@MaxJordan_N) February 2, 2018
Check out the latest @JournalofEthics for lots of great work on comics and medicine! I have a comic about opioid overdose and treatment, please share to help educate on methods of harm reduction. #graphicmedicine https://t.co/hQhaSTblGo pic.twitter.com/yH3UTGvOxn
— Jason (@bittermensch) February 1, 2018
Good questions: Who owns a #patient’s medical record…and why don’t we do a better job of sharing what’s in there? We are getting better, but we in #healthcare have a lot of work to do on #collaboration and #transparency. #EMR #HIPP #patientexperience. #Graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/7eHPagdhcP
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) February 2, 2018
Perhaps there is an important reason for the rise of reflective practice in medicine to be found here. As #EMR‘s force physician notes to be open to patients, are practitioners losing a place to empty their minds in relative privacy? #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/PsUTYgVSDo
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 2, 2018
Comics are a great way for patients and clinicians to learn about patient experiences. #graphicmedicine @JournalofEthics https://t.co/fjtxGHcJpF
— Patrick Mayo (@PatrickMayo59) February 2, 2018
Telling #patient stories with pictures -you’re never too old to “read” picture books! #graphicnovels #graphicmedicine @NoetheMatt via @andertoons #NationalStorytellingWeek ???️✒️?#patientexperience #meded #FridayFeeling pic.twitter.com/24FoagZ1ZL
— Newcomb Library ????ℹ️ (@NewcombLibrary) February 2, 2018
This is a thread I did last Fall focusing on comics involving mental health broadly and then specifically about suicide. #GraphicMedicinehttps://t.co/BZYPIA7UGE
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 2, 2018
I know I missed a huge number of titles, so if you know of some, let me know. Especially if they are related to suicide.
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 2, 2018
More on medicine and depression.
Follow Depressed Dave’s comics at https://t.co/8vTMDpQE7c#depressioninsg #recoveringfromdepression #depression #comics #depresseddavecomic https://t.co/PtVuzbCmyJ pic.twitter.com/hzSjqAmYjJ
— Depressed Dave’s Comics (@depdavecomics) January 31, 2018
Some great stuff this week! Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments below or tweet @NoetheMatt! Until next time…
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