Comics creator Sam Hester: How visual storytelling creates better health care
"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."
Sam Hester is a graphic recorder and comics creator in Calgary. This TED talk is a brilliant insight into the power of visual learning. Her diagrams and signs and comics about her mother’s health journey had a huge realtime impact. They had a huge positive impact on her healthcare team, on her, and, importantly, on her family caregivers.