"We have photos. We have video. Why do we need a medical
illustrator?"

- In spite of the wonders of image-capturing technology such as CT, MRI
and video, there is still much that just cannot be said with these technologies.
For example:
- Can your surgical procedure be videotaped if the surgeon's
hands are in the way?
- Is your visual field is messy or irrelevant to the topic
to be explained?
- Are your video images from a laparoscopic procedure, with such a limited
field of view, disorienting?
- Does your series of still images not explain the transformation?
- Your patients can't figure out what they're looking at?
- A skilled medical illustrator — with knowledge of normal
anatomy, pathology, procedure, instrumentation, visualization skills,
and pedagogy — will create a succinct visual representation of
a precise concept. A good illustration conveys the idea in ways the text,
photograph or raw data alone never could.
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