COVID’S AGONY | Sapana Adhikari
© Covid's Agony by Sapana Adhikari. Spring 2020 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
“This drawing depicts the detailed anatomy of the brain as it screams during the Covid pandemic. It represents the complex emotions running through each and every one of us: denial, desperation, uncertainty and fear. And in particular, the fear every single healthcare worker on the front line is experiencing. Fear at the number of people who will die. Fear at potential exposure while helping others. Fear at the utter helplessness. ”
Sapana Adhikari, MD is a practicing Emergency Medicine physician in Charlotte, NC. Her artistic goal is to document the human experience from her unique perspective, as a physician. Dr. Adhikari wants her viewers to get a glimpse into her world, her thoughts and her opinions, as they relate to health, disease and the human body. She hopes to share the beauty of the emotional highs and devastating lows that make up the human experience and share her small contribution to it. Her artwork has been shown in The National Academy of Medicine permanent online gallery, the Frederic Jameson Gallery at Duke University, in a previous Intima issue and several private collections. She has also donated her art to the charity Musa Masala, to raise money for the Wongchu Sherpa Memorial hospital near Everest base camp.