By John Graham-Pole For more than three decades, the University of Florida’s Arts in Medicine program (AIM: artsinmedicine.ufhealth.org) has brought visual, literary, and performance artists into the hospital’s wards and clinics. Its mission has been simply to enrich the experience of patients and caregivers through countless forms of creative expression. When my nurse colleague […]
On Jan. 11, 2025, Cathy Hassels Monning of Amsterdam, posted on LinkedIn Example2 of 25 in a series of powerful examples of arts and health to start the new year.Example 2 refers to the attending physician for a patient who has sickle cell disease,and to Jill Sonke, former artist-in-residence at University of Florida, Centre for […]
L to R Clockwise: John Graham-Pole aged 2 on Mummy’s knee with sisters Elizabeth, Mary, and Jane, High Bickington, Devon, 1944; John and Bridget, Shands Hospital, University of Florida (UF); John and Roddy, Shands UF; John arm-wrestling with Jarrad after surgery, Shands UF. Posted by John Graham-Pole For a caregiver to know if something is […]
Aboriginal Rock Mural Kimberley Region, Western Australia Posted by John Graham-Pole I don’t have answers to any of these questions, but I can tell you a story. It’s 1960, and I’m entering St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in the city of London on a quite unlooked for scholarship in Classical languages. It’s true I’ve been […]
