AMA Journal of Ethics

The finality of reductive linocut offers an apt analogy to a medical student’s first human cadaver anatomy dissection.

This mixed media collage explores pharmaceutical companies’ influence on the daily lives of American citizens and on patient-physician relationships.

This graphic narrative considers the shortage of normal saline in US health care organizations after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017.

This collection of drawings offers a visual exploration of compassion, respect, and dignity in clinical relationships and encounters.

This series of 3 paintings of figures in a bath explores emotional responses of persons experiencing or responding to others’ moral distress. Intricately tied together and connected through time and space, the bodies represented suggest a complex web of relationships between clinicians and patients.

This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

Caring for the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection suggests the importance of cultural humility in museums and in medicine.

Patients’ experiences of darkness and doubt can be replaced by a sense of buoyancy and lightness. Color and movement convey a patient’s sense of striving, aspiration, and optimism.

Entrainment can distract from pain and offer a means of witnessing important health care experiences.

Hippocrates, a plague doctor, and today's physician practice in ancient, medieval, and contemporary times and places.