Bleeding Heart | Sarah Elizabeth Lane

Nature’s gorgeous complexity mirrors our own health as these two “anatomical-botanical landscapes” show.

Blue Pajama Series | Rachel Wyman

Those who are challenged with mental illness often feel ‘marked’ by the experience. But in this exploration by an artist and therapist, we empathize with the sense of separation and loneliness the disease creates.

California Smog in a New York City Sky | Jacqueline Dragon

The natural world sends messages delivering a diagnosis about climate change; how the treatment goes for this ill is up to us.

Connections Fade | Andria Powers

In using watercolor as a medium, the artist visually demonstrates how the mind loses its clarity.

Death | Leo Kadota

Physicians confront mortality—theirs and others—seemingly every day. For this clinician, the careful art of paperwork teaches patience and reflection on its inevitability.

Desecrated-Resanctify: On Rape and Disability | Shivani Bhatia

Expressing how the body changes during trauma—in words and imagery— is a way to promote recovery and healing.

Exhalation | Sarah Groman

We know the mind-body connection is restorative if we only pause in our lives to breathe.

The Healer's Art is Head and Heart | Summer Wilcox

Empathetic clinicians go through a balancing act every day.

Healthcare is a Right | Benjamin Fleet

Social justice means everyone can be helped and healed with equality and empathy.

How Will We Use Our Hands to Heal? | Arielle Moss

A Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine medical student asked her fellow clinicians-in-training to answer this question in an evocative way.

If Only... | Julie Hwang

Understanding the way a loved one’s trauma affects the clinical encounter—in an essay and in artwork—provides a deeper understanding of the way doctors can allow patients to express their fear and pain.

Illness Experience | Ayushi Naik

Graphic medicine in the form of a personal journal makes sense of the positive and negative moments in a confusing time.

In the Darkest Moments, I Will Always Be Here | Jenny Zhang

Our collective experience with COVID-19 continues, especially for clinicians experiencing caring for those with the deadly virus.

The Morning After | Megan Gerber

Dawn brings a new perspective after a long shift, especially during a pandemic.

Pain Scale for Chronic Patients | Sal Marx

Suffering isn’t always easily quantifiable. Art helps us begin to comprehend the magnitude of it.

Patient Perspective | Kimberly Lovie

How we see ourselves as clinicians may not look the same from the other side.

Primary People | Savita Rani

Biological, psychological and social factors: Think of them as the primary colors of patient care.

Prognosis | Adela Wu

Difficult questions: How do clinicians face them with sensitivity?

Retinal Detachment | Hannah Brooks

Interpreting a condition through art provides inner vision

Unmasked | Megan Gerber

What collage of memories will we keep from the days, months and possibly years of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Untitled | Rachel Coyne

Symbols of nature—snakes, bluebirds, ghostly forms—have significance in the ways we interpret their meaning in healthcare and healing.