Annals Graphic Medicine - Internship

Bitterman, Jason

doi:10.7326/g17-0001

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Comics Physicians Become Increasingly Human1

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“…Physicians' everyday humanness continues as a theme in many of the comics in the Annals of Internal Medicine. In "Internship," for example, a confident, optimistic new intern is stumped and must rely on Google after his first patient requests something for her headache [22], while in "Breach of Confidentiality," a physician arrives home one day and decompresses by telling a story about a patient [23]. Near the end, she reminds her listener-revealed in the next panel to be a cat-not to tell anyone.…”

Section: Comics Physicians Become Increasingly Humanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Cornopleezeepi and Party Poopers: A Brief History of Physicians in Comics

Tilley

2018

AMA Journal of Ethics

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The representations of physicians and medical practice found in comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels throughout the past century reflect broader representational trends in popular visual media. Drawing on examples including Winsor McCay's Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, the superhero comics character Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange, and contemporary graphic medicine, this article outlines the shifting models for depicting physicians and medical ethics in comics. It concludes that contemporary representations are often more realistic and nuanced, although gender and racial diversity along with diversity in medical specializations remains problematic.

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Section: Comics Physicians Become Increasingly Humanmentioning

confidence: 99%