Photography in Medicine Project

[crappyjones123]

It is with great pleasure I bring you one of my most ambitious projects, Photography in Medicine. The idea was born of some random discussions my advisor and I had over the summer and after incessantly annoying, emailing and calling a lot of people, it has finally come to fruition. You can read more about it at www.photographyinmedicine.org. 

 

Chris Evert Children’s Hospital has graciously allowed full access to their general pediatric, pediatric oncology and pediatric ICU wards where we will give the admitted children cameras and go around with them taking pictures of whatever they find interesting. The hospital plans on displaying the images in their main lobby in March and my university will have a community showing of the images as well. We hope to see how the world looks from their perspective as it is something that unfortunately often gets missed. For anyone even remotely familiar with HIPAA laws, I hope the near impossibility of getting this kind of access is apparent. The hospital really went to bat on my behalf and I am extremely thankful for it. 

 

I have been working with local organizations to get the word out about this rather ambitious project and our first promotional spot will be on The HITS 97.3 DJ Laz Morning Show this Sunday, Nov 9th, between 6 and 7am so please listen in if you can! For any non Florida members, you can stream it at Listen Live. We have a ways to go towards providing all the children with cameras so we are looking for donations and help with spreading the word about this endeavor. Even if you can’t donate, we would love for you to share the project website, www.photographyinmedicine.org, on your social media pages so that we might be able to gain exposure, donations and perhaps even get more families who wish to participate. 

 

I want the whole project to be entirely free for the families so there are a lot of things we need help with. Please take a look at the website and feel free to share it with your friends and family. Any donations are greatly appreciated and welcome.

 

Cheers.

Edited January 13, 2015 by crappyjones123

[Jon L]

 

For anyone even remotely familiar with HIPAA laws, I hope the near impossibility of getting this kind of access is apparent. The hospital really went to bat on my behalf and I am extremely thankful for it. 

 

 

 

Fantastic idea, but knowing and dealing with HIPAA every day, I sure hope your project ends well without somebody getting in trouble or people filing lawsuits 

 

There's a reason my "hospital shot" resembles impressionism.

 

DSC00029dxo by drjlo1, on Flickr

[crappyjones123]

Thanks Jon. There will likely be 2 different releases everyone will have to sign - one from the university and one from the hospital to try to make sure all parties involved are covered. The hospital staff are universally extremely excited so I think we mostly have to worry about people who are visiting or family of the admitted. This is why digital cameras are a must so that if there are pictures of anyone who didn't sign a release, the staff can delete the images on the spot or at the end of the day when we will have the Herculean task of making sure everyone in the images signed a release.

[CarlSeibert]

The releases shouldn't be a big deal. They have to be done and done right but irs not too hard. We shoot in hospitals a fair bit.

CJ. Call Ben Crandall at the Sun Sentinel. I'd be shocked if he doesn't want to do a story. It's a really good arts story. Sounds like a wonderful project.

[crappyjones123]

Thanks for the kind words Carl. And the reference. I have a big exam on Monday. I'll try to find his contact information after that. 

[crappyjones123]

Our interview with 97.3FM 

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

Looks ambitious. I wish you the best, and look forward to seeing how it turns out.

 

When I was a pediatric resident my main "photo" contribution was making video tapes of the kid's birthday parties on the cancer unit, and giving the tapes to the parents as a keepsake. Sometimes I wished I'd made a copy of the tapes for myself.  

 

Many of these kids were on chemotherapy and could not leave, so we brought the party to them.  It's impossibly hard to keep a face mask on 10 kids coming to the party to visit one immune suppressed birthday boy.  If not for the child-life specialists' constant lobbying we'd never have gotten approval to do it.

[crappyjones123]

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement, Larry. The child life specialists were the ones who were most helpful in trying to get us approval from the hospital admin. Could not have done anything without them.

Carl, do you have any contact info for Ben? I tried calling sub sentinel and asking for him but was told he did not work there on separate phone calls. Told them that he wrote the south Florida blog but got the same answer again.

[CarlSeibert]

Nice!  PMing contact info.

[crappyjones123]

Couple of updates...

 

Bay Photo is partially sponsoring all the printing for the project.

 

An awesome photographer from Texas, Keith Young, graciously donated a very cool poster - Stay Up and Make Something, to the cause to be auctioned off with proceeds going entirely to the project. You can read about it here...

 

https://ello.co/keithdavisyoung/post/6OqCnIUI6cMfZD1FDHvBfw

 

We just have a few more days to go and would greatly appreciate donations or loans of any kind.

[crappyjones123]

Less than a week to go. We still need some funding to pay for the camera rental. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

www.photographyinmedicine.org