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Representation Matters.
If you're looking to create a presentation or any visual materials for use with trainees or colleagues, please consider ensuring that the images of healthcare professionals you choose to include paint a true picture of diversity within healthcare.
Below, we've collated a series of sources of historical and contemporary paintings and photographs representing diverse healthcare professionals in action.
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Portraits of Healthcare Workers by Tim Okamura
Portraits of Women of Color on the Front Lines
Operating Theatre, by Malika Favre
Portraits for NHS Heroes
NHS Workers Captured on Canvas
Photograph, Getty Images
Frida Kahlo and her doctors
Clinicians tending to a patient at Provident Hospital
Nurse Midwife Maude Callen Delivers a Baby, Pineville, South Carolina, 1951, by W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith's Landmark Photo Essay, 'Nurse Midwife'
José Gregorio Hernández, Doctor of the Poor
Mentor, by Kari Visscher
La Partera or the Midwife, by Victoria de Almeida
Art in a Pandemic, a Digital Gallery
Doctora Mexicana (Retrato de Irma Mendoza), by Diego Rivera
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte and Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill, Drexel University
Graphic Medicine - Image of Physicians, by Molly Ferguson
Mural at Kingston University, by Alban Low
Mural at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, by Sam Weinberger
"I Look Like a Surgeon" series by Andrea Gahl
Additional sources may be found here:
Meharry Medical College Archives
Images from the History of Medicine
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