Do No Harm confronts the space between the promise of medicine and the reality of being a patient. Prescription slips become fragments of a medical system: orders, diagnoses, referrals, screenings, medications, case management. But across them, the language becomes personal: fatigue, dismissal, disbelief, pain, care, symptoms, “I was important,” “I was not heard.” The layers are intentionally chaotic. Pink, turquoise, gold, black and white collide the way information can collide inside a complicated medical journey. Words are written over words, partially erased and buried beneath paint, reflecting how easily a patient’s voice can become obscured by paperwork, protocols and assumptions. The prescription papers represent treatment, but they also represent authority. They ask: Who gets believed? Who gets heard? Who gets treated as a whole person rather than a case? At its center is the contradiction of the title. “Do No Harm” is not only a medical principle. It is a question. What happens when harm comes not from a lack of treatment, but from not listening, not believing, or not looking deeply enough? This work is about the patient who keeps showing up… asking to be seen, asking to be heard, and asking for care that does no harm.

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