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Graphic Medicine

What is Graphic Medicine?

Why Graphic Medicine?

Michael Green, MD, MS, Penn State College of Medicine, on the super power comics have to draw clinicians, patients together.

 

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.