A Reminder - The Last Collaboration Edward Picot's article about Millie Niss on Furtherfield. Submitted by Theresa Wyatt
"I have read The Last Collaboration by Martha Deed and Millie Niss and it is a striking account, one that I will never forget and one that I will never stop learning from. Mr. Picot introduces this book with laser beams of experience and clarity that will enable readers to find their way. The way here can be difficult - through the health care "mill," but not without respite through poetry or "notes about birds" as Picot points out. That he knew Millie Niss and can attest she was "no ordinary patient" or that she "...put her finger right onto a recognised problem of healthcare..." only confirms what I have already surmised about this remarkable woman and her extraordinary mother - that no degree of difficulty was going to silence this important narrative. I am happy to learn that this documentary book is slated to be used in the classroom by a medical professor. This is most encouraging and I hope more professors and health care educators will do so." The Last Collaboration By Edward Picot - 26/01/2012 The United States loses more American lives to patient safety incidents every six months than it did in the entire Vietnam War." Edward Picot introduces The Last Collaboration an art documentary book by artists and poets Martha Deed and Millie Niss. This work is a construction of Millie’s hospital experiences in the last hospital she ever visited. The story is told through Millie’s notes, emails, the daily diary she sent home, her posts on her Sporkworld blog, her mother’s log, and Millie’s medical records. These primary, often raw, documents are framed with medical notes and clinical guidelines as well as the outcomes of two NYS Department of Health investigations of Millie’s care. Millie wanted her story told. She wanted an autopsy performed if she died. Because of the autopsy, we have the story. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/last-collaboration Featuring Martha Deed http://www.furtherfield.org/user/mldeed http://www.sporkworld.org/Deed _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
