How visual storytelling creates better health care | Sam Hester | TED Talk

When it comes to communicating with empathy, are pictures worth a thousand words? 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.