Imagine Medicine Photo Contest
November 22, 2010 § 2 Comments
Medgadget.com has announced an exciting medicine-themed photo contest they call Imagine Medicine. The prize is an iPad.
We are looking for fascinating medical photography that… imagines medicine. Nothing is off the table: portraits, group shots, happy shots, tragic shots, clinical shots, photoshop illustrations, macro, micro, and anything in between. Can you imagine medicine, showcase it as art, and make us wonder?
To participate, simply upload your photographs to Flickr and tag them with “imaginemedicine” and “medgadget”, by 11:59pm ET on December 5, 2010.
You can see all the submitted photos here.
Three Years and Counting
November 11, 2010 § 5 Comments
Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet. Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved. Click for larger version.
The Sterile Eye turns three today and one year ago I switched from my job at Oncolex to the Institute of Clinical Medicine. It’s been an exciting year both in work and blogging. « Read the rest of this entry »
Lunch with a Burn Surgeon
November 4, 2010 § 2 Comments
Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of a meshed skin graft over a burn. Photo from the Wellcome Collection.
I’ve recently found the podcast treasure that is the Wellcome Collection’s Packed Lunch, a series of interviews with British scientists from different fields. Especially interesting is a podcast featuring burn surgeon Isabel Jones. « Read the rest of this entry »
No Pacifier
October 27, 2010 § 5 Comments
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
Notice on the incubator of a one-week-old baby with epidermolysis bullosa (EB):
I must do without a pacifier. Or else I get large wounds in my mouth. Give me some drops of mother’s milk instead.
A Watch for the Blind
October 22, 2010 § 5 Comments
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
This is a pocket watch I’ve inherited after my great-grandfather. Working as a farmer on the northwest coast of Norway he injured one of his eyes while mending a wire fence. Some time later he injured the other eye in the exact same way, making him completely blind. The watch has no glass cover and the numbers are indicated with braille-like dots.
The blindness did not stop him from providing his family with an income. Although he couldn’t go on as a farmer, he started making a living as a cabinetmaker. He died a few years before I was born.
Larger and additional photos available on my Flickr page.
Two Kids in Hospital
October 18, 2010 § 1 Comment
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
A hospital stay can be an adventure and it can be a nightmare. This is the story of two kids from the skin ward I photographed the other day. « Read the rest of this entry »
The Other Side of the Lens
October 11, 2010 § 5 Comments
Photo by Robert Peinert © All rights reserved.
Guest post by Robert Peinert
For the past two years, I worked as a medical photographer and videographer during my graduate studies. While I primarily worked for a general surgery department, I often found myself documenting orthopedic and neurosurgical cases as well, in part due to my boss’ involvement with these other departments. Because of my background – mother was a nurse, father is an orthopedic surgeon – I have spent some time in and around operating rooms and surgeons’ clinics, allowing me to become familiar with the general instruments and supplies used in any case. Because of this, while photographing or filming, I would be often asked to grab something – usually gauze or sterile towels, etc….you know, the simple, everyday stuff. « Read the rest of this entry »
National Museum of Medicine
October 3, 2010 § 1 Comment
Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
The National Museum of Medicine was established as recently as 2001, with the first permanent exhibition opening in 2003. Although the exhibitions are very interesting, the museum still has some distance to cover to become a national museum. « Read the rest of this entry »
Medical Photos from Victorian Ireland
September 28, 2010 § 2 Comments
A collection of photographs of patients treated by Victorian surgeon Edward Stamer O’Grady is reproduced for the first time in the latest issue of the Scope medical magazine. See the photos, all from the vast Burns Archive and read the story behind them below.
The cover photo, with its creative use of a mirror to show the posterior view of the shoulder, is absolutely stunning!
Hat tip to Morbid Anatomy.
The Opposite of Fashion
September 20, 2010 § 2 Comments
Hidradenitis suppurativa of the axilla. Photo from bestpractice.bmj.com.
A career in fashion photography seems to be the dream of a lot of young photographers these days. In medical photography however, you won’t find much glamour or glitz, but a lot of real people with real problems. « Read the rest of this entry »
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