This research guide is not intended to be a comprehensive collection of consumer/patient health sites on the Internet but is intended as a starting point for research. Links to Internet resources outside of the Health Information Center site are provided solely for the convenience of persons visiting the site. Provision of such hyperlinks is not an endorsement of these sites.
Graphic Medicine is the use of comics and illustrations in medical education and patient care.
Graphic medicine resources benefit both the healthcare provider and their patients.
Including graphic novels and comics in healthcare plays a valuable role in reflecting or changing cultural perceptions of medicine, relating the patient/caregiver/provider experience, and enabling discussion of difficult subjects.
Graphic medicine communicates the author’s personal experience of illness and health. The combined language of words and pictures in comics gives approachability and emotional impact to personal stories, and even to the clinical data and information they often include. For readers with similar health issues, it is a way to relate and share information. Personal stories may be from the perspective of patients, caregivers, or even the healthcare professionals that treat them.
Jose Alaniz - "The Phantom Zone and Other Stories"
