I'm a medical cartoonist and I make comics about healthcare! I'm also a healthcare IT content designer/UX writer. Plus I talk a lot about pro wrestling. She/her
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A little comic that looks at basic things that get in the way of healthcare (in less absolutely bananas times) (1/5)
ALT Cover for minicomic Little Bitty Great Big Barriers to Healthcare
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Quick reminder that I’m not on here these days. You can find me as metrokitty over on on Bluesky.
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Wonderful talk by @inksplattery on her process (thumbnails), creating coma & other work. Amazing drawings & so much thought & care in all of it! #GraphMed2024 (plus heart connection on her attention to accuracy “someone knows if I got it wrong” - hear hear, this drives me too…)
ALT Zara talking in front of giant screen with picture of coma cover
ALT Thumbnails and other process images from coma
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Audio isn’t working on the livestream? I’m seeing a silent presentation. #GraphMed2024
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Here’s the whole slide with additional quote from me referring to my redrawing of this Paleolithic lunar calendar - observing events in time and graphically noting them in spatial sequence is a fundamental human thing - and an essential literacy, that is comics… #GraphMed2024
ALT A slide with except from unflattening showing a sequence of images wrapping around my redrawing of a Paleolithic lunar calendar marked into bone
"The passage of time is written in space.... comics are weird about time..."
The ability to play with time like this, and in really wild ways, is one of the biggest affordances of comics.
#GraphMed2024
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It’s time for the annual Graphic Medicine conference! Check out @GraphicMedicine for fascinating retweets. I’m tuning in remotely this year - greetings to pals and colleagues on site in Ireland! #GraphMed2024
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Ok well the cats outta the bag ya big noseys!!!! I was waiting for the official graphic but Yes this is a real shirt you can buy with your money to wear on your body AND ALL proceeds will go to @FreedomOkla and hopefully we can do some good for the people that live there
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The recording from the Harvard Med School comics and medicine discussion panel is up! 1.5 hrs of talk from me, A. David Lewis, Joel Christian Gill, and moderator Matthew Noe. 🔥 Scroll down to “Week 1” for the event info and recording link: countway.harvard.edu/service…
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It’s me! I’m on this comics and medicine discussion panel this evening! In-person and online, registration required, event will be recorded!
Boston #Comics Roundtable pointer of the day: @HMSCountway hosts a panel discussion on “Defining Graphic Medicine” with Cathy Leamy @metrokitty, A. David Lewis @adlewis, Joel Christian Gill & Matthew Noe @NoetheMatt, Wed, Jan 10, 5–615pm, hybrid – buff.ly/48oL1qd
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I'm honored to be a speaker at the upcoming Policy Consortium event on shared decision-making in long illness journeys. Let's explore the power of choices and communication in healthcare. Join me! @NPAF_tweets npaf.org/events/do-i-have-a-…
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Repost: ‘Tis the season-again-for #RSV
Thought I’d present a visual course of how the illness unfolds in younger kids. For adults and big kids? It means a bad head cold.
#graphicmedicine @kriota @Creativemeddose @MdKathi @metrokitty @PhysicianDoodle @Init4Health
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just a friendly reminder that if you want small, independent businesses to survive, you have to shop there once in a while. you can't just backsource everything you find there and try to find a cheaper price online. or if you do, don't performatively lament when they shutter.
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Forget everything I've written about bathroom signage just read this
taking a stand in Food & Wine Magazine today on the blight of "cute" bathroom signs. PS I am not a crank
"The Fancier the Restaurant, the Harder It Is to Find the Bathroom"
foodandwine.com/restaurant-b…
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Damn, that’s a powerful ad from Norwich 💛
𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.
Check in on those around you.
#WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans
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Today is Ether Day!
On October 16, 1846, the first successful public demonstration of the use of ether for surgical anesthesia was performed at @MassGeneralNews, making pain-free surgery possible.
Read more: massgeneral.org/anesthesia/n… #ether #Anesthesia
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