Here are a few recent Palliative Care cartoons from the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management and AAHPM Quarterly! I’m grateful, and still a bit surprised, to have my scatterbrained cartoons featured in respectable publications… Images copyright ©2018 Nathan A. Gray
Read More Flute Music, Existential Distress, and Sloppy Surgeons…I’m grateful to the AMA Journal of Ethics for giving me a platform to tell the story of ‘Silvio,’ an undocumented immigrant living with kidney failure. You can read the journal article here or follow the gallery below to see the story page by page. While I can’t change what happened to ‘Silvio,’ I hope that with […]
Read More Cruel Carousel: The Grim Grind of “Compassionate” DialysisIn honor of the July arrival of new doctors at teaching hospitals around the country, the Twittersphere is actively producing a variety of #TipsforNewDocs. Here is my own compiled and drawn list of 7 graphic tips to add to the mix. Number 1- Listen to #Nurses !! Number 2 – It’s hard to remember when […]
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Read More Struck by House, Initial Encounter…Nathan A. Gray – MD – Ok, Google and Amazon can’t do this (yet). However, Every person needs a medical decision-maker to be their voice when they can’t speak for themselves, and everyone needs to make sure their decision-maker knows what they want!
Read More Alexa, Make Bob My Healthcare Power of AttorneyMy cartoon for the Spring issue of AAHPM Quarterly… It definitely feels like compassion is often being outsourced in modern medicine. Copyright Nathan A. Gray 2017
Read More Some things shouldn’t be automated…On International Women’s Day 2018, here’s an old cartoon from my rejection collection as a salute to all of the sheroes out there breaking barriers for women…
Read More Where do you see yourself in 5 years?I have nothing funny this week… only an image and a question: “How long?” From NEJM, Firearm-Related Injury and Death: A Public Health Crisis From JAMA, Death by Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis
Read More How Long?N. Gray, MD I’ve definitely said my share of words that weren’t helpful in fragile moments with people who were suffering. Learning to be present without pity, preaching, or patronizing is an art that requires the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and hear your words with their ears. I find I’ve rarely […]
Read More Empathy: The Throw Pillow Rule of Thumb…
