This first-person narrative illuminates how the author—a nurse, artist, and dancer—uses the arts and movement to help patients and clinicians process personal loss individually and collectively in the hospital setting.

This image aims to promote reflection about patients’ feelings of sadness, despair, helplessness, and uncertainty upon being diagnosed.

John is one patient-sitter whose cancer and portraiture experiences illuminate what it means to witness, to express regard for another’s difficult health and health care experiences.

Lisa is one patient-sitter who took comfort in the permanence of portraiture amidst the uncertainties of tongue cancer. Her experience offers an abundance of lessons for art and healing.

Responding well means navigating ongoing grief, restoring self-community and human-ecological relationships, and generating cultural vibrancy.

This charcoal gesture drawing, inspired by a mid-adolescent nonbinary patient, investigates a caregiver’s and patient’s journey from despair to hope.

While men are diagnosed with depression at half the rate of women, they die by suicide 3 to 4 times as frequently.

Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.

Workers essential to social functioning and safety are paid as if health care organizations would not cease functioning without them.

Adapting content in response to new science is common, but educators can struggle to offer current questions that matter to students.