Sam Hester
| Visual storytelling in health care
About
Sam Hester is a professional speaker at Common Cents Lab, Duke University, who specializes in the power of visual storytelling in healthcare settings. Sam delivered a talk at TEDxYYC 2021 titled "How visual storytelling creates better health care," exploring how visual communication methods can improve patient outcomes and healthcare delivery.
Through their work, Sam examines the intersection of design, communication, and medicine, demonstrating how visual tools and storytelling techniques can bridge gaps in understanding between healthcare providers and patients. Their approach focuses on making complex medical information more accessible and creating more effective care experiences through thoughtful visual design.
What Sam Talks About
How visual storytelling creates better health care
Using design and visual communication to improve patient outcomes
Making medical information more accessible through visual tools
Bridging communication gaps between healthcare providers and patients
The role of storytelling in healthcare delivery
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How visual storytelling creates better health care
Comics creator Sam Hester is part of a growing movement within health care: graphic medicine. In short, literally drawing attention to a patient's needs and goals with pictures to foster better and more accessible caretaking. Hester shares how illustrating small details of her mother's medical story as she struggled with mysterious symptoms alongside her Parkinson's and dementia led to more empathy, understanding, communication and peace of mind.
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