Abstract
This series of drawings considers clinicians’ responses to the death of a surgical patient.
Figure 1. An Empty Stage
A hospital bed is empty, but an intravenous pole and bags signify that someone has just been there.
A bloody scalpel suggests a surgical error led to the patient’s death.
Figure 2. One Wrong Cut
Figure 3. An Investigation
A Y-shaped autopsy scar indicates the patient’s death is under investigation.
A distraught clinician sits at the foot of their deceased patient’s bed. Another clinician approaches.
Figure 4. Regret
Figure 5. The Healing Hand
A fellow healer’s outreach alludes to clinicians’ duties to one another when a patient dies from an error.
