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    Opinion: Getting graphic in medicine: using comics to tell health stories

    In addition to making us laugh, comics can help us see things in a new light. That's exactly what patients and caregivers need when facing the big challenges of life.
    by MK Czerwiec Apr 26, 2018 3 minutes

    As I was growing up, I thought I understood nursing by watching my mom excel in the profession. But I realized I had a lot more to learn when, as a new nurse, I worked in a dedicated AIDS unit in a Chicago hospital in the 1990s.

    At that time — the height of the AIDS crisis in the U.S. — the amount of suffering and death on the unit was overwhelming. I didn’t know how to process losing so many friends and patients. In nursing school, our

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