This drawing considers masks’ transformation from an evidence-based public health measure to a political symbol during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Behind the immediate pathophysiology of a medical condition often lies the emotional turmoil of an uncertain patient.

This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital.

Good health care for elders requires acute ethical attention to the role of ageism as a pervasive source of bias.

This pen and ink drawing reimagines a white coat in the context of medicine’s realistic, not idealized, dynamism.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres' and Gregg Bordowitz’s works express their experiences of living through a pandemic and subsequent social change and draw out key human rights themes.

Osler’s contributions to the philosophy and practice of medicine foreground characteristics of a compassionate caregiver, including imperturbability and equanimity.

Meditation on images of corporeal suffering were once part of a “spiritual ordeal” that can still provoke a kind of transformation key to health professionalism.

A workshop’s emphasis on visual thinking strategies helps maintain a climate of mutual respect and shared values among interprofessional team members.

Through the lens of metaphor and the arts, this article aims to illuminate how persons who are ill tarry through uncertainty to receive care.