If you search for an image of a human heart online, or a femur bone, or lungs, you will get thousands of images back in just a fraction of a second.
Given the wealth of existing pictures and sketches, it may surprise you that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has an in-house team of medical illustrators - called Stream Studios - to create bespoke images of specific procedures or medical issues.
WHYY’s Nicole Leonard recently visited the illustrators and has this report.
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(Original air-date: 5/23/23)