ULNAR DEVIATION | Madeline Cheshire

© Ulnar Deviation. Maddy Cheshire. Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine 2026. Watercolor and colored pencil on paper

“Hands affected by rheumatoid arthritis: my grandmother's and mine.”

Madeline Cheshire is a fourth-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, pursuing residency in neurology. Her visual art and written work explore how illness lives within families. Her writing in the spirit of narrative medicine has appeared in the Journal of Palliative Medicine