A Patient Is a Person is a series about how whole-person health is transforming the patient journey. It is supported by funding from UPIC Health.
Wellness as a Wheel: A Comic About Whole-Person Health
Wellness as a Wheel: A Comic About Whole-Person Health
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A Patient Is a PersonJess Ruliffson
Jess Ruliffson is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist. Her debut graphic novel, Invisible Wounds, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2022. Her comic, Tenderness and Brutality, was nominated for an Online Journalism Award in 2023. She teaches at Boston University and The Sequential Artists Workshop.
Ernesto Barbieri
Ernesto Barbieri is a writer and ICU nurse based in New England. His writing has appeared in the Believer, the Boston Globe, Iowa Review, Midway Journal and elsewhere. He is at work on a novel and a graphic memoir about his experience in New York during the pandemic.
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