Website: Where stories and art bring new light to healthcare
Science and art are a powerful combination for expanding perspectives in healthcare. Non profit organisation Junction Care has gathered personal stories
State Secretary Judith Tielen visits Gelre Hospitals
On Wednesday, 3 December 2025, Gelre Hospitals welcomed State Secretary Judith Tielen…
In the Media: Gynecologist Warns About Unknown Disease: ‘Diagnosis Often 15 Years Too Late’
“It’s just part of it” and “you just have to learn to live with it”—these are things women often hear when dealing with menstrual problems.
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric-gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry
Heleen Eising 1 2, Elsemarijn Leijenaar 3, Ramsey Nasr 4, Renate van Leuken 5, Marlies Bongers 2 6, Megan Milota 3 Published in Pubmed
Collaboration with the Dutch String Collective
The Dutch String Collective were asked to create some music to a poem of Ramsey Nasr.
Co-creation of a poem with poet and writer Ramsey Nasr
In 2019, Ramsey Nasr was asked by Heleen to co-create a thematic poem about taboo topics such as vulnerability, intimacy and gender inequality in women’s care.
Whitepaper “Arts in Health”
On Friday 16 February 2024, more than 200 scientists, healthcare professionals, artists, funders, administrators and policymakers gathered at the theatre …
Care: Collaboration between Professor Marlies Bongers’ scientific group
Prof Marlies Bongers (GROW research school Maastricht University; Máxima Medisch Centrum Veldhoven) is a gynaecologist and associate professor of benign gynaecology…
Science: Lectures and publications
An overview of all Junction lectures and publications.
Narrative medicine by Megan Milota
(Video) Narrative medicine by Megan Milota, literary scholar and associate professor UMC Utrecht