Regina Holliday's painting, "Give Us Our Dammed Data" (Photo by Cindy Throop)

17 authors with weapons in hand stare down upon the viewer. The three panel painting measures 60 inches by 144 inches. It is a very large painting, and yet it is crowded with those who have been hurt and those who have suffered. Every one of them is an author. Nearly everyone in the painting took the hurt and outrage they felt about a dysfunctional medical system and channeled that into a book. That book is their shield and their pen is a spear.

(Read Regina Holliday’s complete post, “Give Us Our Dammed Data” about her show at Clinovations in Washington, DC)