Durham, NC – My latest graphic medicine piece was published last week, and I’m grateful to Topic magazine for giving this story a platform. I tried hard to capture the pain and grit of one of the hard decisions that patients and doctors are forced to make in the midst of life-threatening illness. While I believe strongly […]
Read More Finding Humanity in Medicine’s High-Tech Death Ritual…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…A cartoon salute to the medical folks working this #LaborDay . . . Hope you’re able to feel appreciated for the hard work you do, even when you may feel toasted!! #LaborOnLaborDay #GraphicMedicine
Read More BurnoutI’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 […]
Read More #TipsForNewDocsHard to believe, but Mickey Mouse has been kicking since 1928… time to catch up on health maintenance!!
Read More Mickey Turns 90…N. Gray, MD
Read More Struck by House, Initial Encounter…My 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…
