How comic strips create better health care

March Webinar: Super Hero Immune System

Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022

Time: 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Location: Online

From the moment we're born, we are under attack by billions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, pollutants, & allergens that want to make us their home. So, our body has developed an army of infection fighters known as the immune system. Learn about this amazing defense system and which nutritional products we can can use to support it.

Join us as Lark Swofford, RPh discusses:

the basic immune system physiology and function
nutritional supplements for maintaining a healthy immune system
common protocols to help combat bacterial, fungal and viral infections.

How comic strips create better health care

How My Mom and I Humanized Healthcare Through Graphic Medicine | Sam Hester | TEDxYYC

Normally, our little blurbs in these newsletters try to correlate to our monthly health webinar topic. However, seeing how many of us are caring for aging family members, I thought this is a great short video to watch especially if the person needing care cannot speak or advocate for themselves. I hope it is beneficial to you and provides an out-of-the-box idea to helping our loved ones.

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.