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Hx Of, Bonni Boles Nov 2019

Hx Of, Bonni Boles

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My purpose in creating this comic strip was to tell a story that depicts some of the struggles I have had with the health care system and how a patient's history can go overlooked. I suffered from chronic insomnia for over 10 years before a licensed professional counselor, someone tasked with actually listening to me, helped me to get on medication to help with sleep. My mental health, and general health, problems became much less severe and more manageable after finally sleeping regularly.

Sleep hygiene has been found to not have much success with chronic insomnia. I didn't need someone …


The Knock Of Progress, Nihit N. Mehta May 2017

The Knock Of Progress, Nihit N. Mehta

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This work is created as an amateur attempt, to push forward the philosophy of caring touch in modern medicine.