Complications
2019, oil on canvas, 18 x 24″.
This image depicts the unfortunate scene when there is a medical complication with a patient. Most often, it is the medical disease that causes the bad outcome, not a mistake. Notice the figures in the background pointing at one another to avert blame to one another in our litigious society. The neutral bystander in the front often watches in shame at their behavior because she knows that nothing could have been done to save the unfortunate patient.
SAPANA ADHIKARI, MD 