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.

The days leading up to and waiting for the results of magnetic resonance imaging sessions are anxiety-inducing.

This comic shares a true story of a physician’s fraught interaction with and physical examination of a patient.

This drawing considers the importance of understanding history’s role in contextualizing many patients’ present-day health care experiences.

This comic considers how patients work to use the right vocabulary to help their physicians help them.

Dr Noelle Driver joins Ethics Talk to discuss the status of health care workers earning low wages, and Pheobe Cohen shares how her own experience in health care helps motivate her artistic practice as a comic maker.

Dr Evguenia S. Popova joins Ethics Talk to discuss how collaborations between academic health centers and arts institutions can help students build their professional skills in empathic responsiveness and communication.

This watercolor visually considers which values our words and actions endorse.

This comic compares a lack of price transparency in health care billing to psychic card readings.

In health care, costs can come across like “market priced” items on menus in upscale restaurants.