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How visual storytelling creates better health care

Sam Hester · TED

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About

Comics creator Sam Hester is part of a growing movement within health care: graphic medicine. In short, literally drawing attention to a patient's needs and goals with pictures to foster better and more accessible caretaking. Hester shares how illustrating small details of her mother's medical story as she struggled with mysterious symptoms alongside her Parkinson's and dementia led to more empathy, understanding, communication and peace of mind.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxYYC
Speaker
Sam Hester
Year
2021
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Society and politics, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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