Tag: lung cancer

Patients bearing gifts

Anthony Papagiannis Thessaloniki, Greece Photography by Marju Randmer It is not uncommon for practicing clinicians to receive gifts of gratitude. Patients have their way of expressing their appreciation for whatever service they believe we offered them in the course of their health misadventures. The prevalence of gift-giving may vary with the healthcare system (state…

January 27, 2017
Life is a game: visual metaphors in Brian Fies’s Mom’s Cancer

Sathyaraj VenkatesanAnu Mary PeterTiruchirapalli, India Motivated by a “desire to give meaning to the lives lived in uncertainty”1 and illustrate the experience of enduring an illness, the creators of comics often resort to visual metaphors that render a patient’s physical and psychological experiences tangible.2,3 In Mom’s Cancer (2006) Brian Fies deploys a series of visual…

January 25, 2017

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