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This is Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter and welcome to the Ted Health Podcast.

In today's episode, we'll hear from Sam Hester and how her comic book skills profoundly

improve the quality of care her mother received in the hospital.

Her unusual story is at the forefront of a budding movement that combines visual storytelling

into healthcare to provide a better experience for patients and doctors.

Then join me after the talk to explore how doctors and patients can communicate better

to make sure patients feel really heard and seen.

This is the story of how I used comics to help me in my role as a caregiver for my mom,

in a way I couldn't have imagined.

Now, when I was thinking about how to tell that story, I talked a lot about it with my

mom.

That's because this story is hers.

My mom's name is Jocelyn and we're not alike.

She's an optimist.

I worry about all the terrible things that are going to go wrong.

She's impulsive.

I'm cautious.

We're so different that it took me a long time to realize we had something important

in common.

We both respond to challenges by writing stories.

Now it took me such a long time to notice that we had this in common because the stories

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