BMJ  2004;328:544 (6 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-a

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Documenting life at a renal centre

Lynn Eaton

London

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Photographer Gina Glover, winner of the 2003 Novartis and Daily Telegraph Visions of Science Photographic Awards, has spent more than four months documenting life at the renal centre at Northwick Park Hospital, London. Her pictures, including this of Mathrubutham Vaidyanathan sporting an upturned cardboard disposable bedpan, are to decorate the previously blank walls of the unit.

"There is nothing pleasant about any long term disabling illness, and particularly one like kidney disease," says Ms Glover. "A stoical attitude to illness may be desirable from the point of view of the people around the patient, but putting on a bright face is difficult to maintain day in day out."

The images, many of them portraits of patients, were all created with the patients' involvement.


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