# How visual storytelling creates better health care

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_hester_how_visual_storytelling_creates_better_health_care)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How visual storytelling creates better health care](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sam_hester_how_visual_storytelling_creates_better_health_care/41a8997100b1), 11 min (TED's player)