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As a cardiologist, Joseph Gascho\u2019s considerations at work go beyond the exterior of the human body \u2013 and the same is true in another of his pursuits: portrait photography.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn hospitals, I want people to see that people are more than they appear to be on the surface,\u201d Gascho said in a January article posted on the Penn State Medicine blog<\/a>. \u201cPatients are more than just patients, and doctors are more than just doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 1968 Eastern Mennonite University graduate\u2019s work is currently on display at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center<\/a>\u2019s Rotunda Caf\u00e9, chapel and Heart and Vascular Institute IO Silver Clinic. The collections feature images of support staff, doctors and patients.<\/p>\n

One objective of this particular focus, Gascho says, is to emphasize the importance of each staff person\u2019s role, an intent he\u00a0 traces back to his father\u2019s feelings of being a \u201csecond-class citizen\u201d when he was a maintenance worker, the Penn State article states<\/p>\n

The current Caf\u00e9 display \u201cfeatures portraits of support staff dressed to the nines and holding a prop that represents their positions.\u201d One that accompanies the article shows a man named Matthew Walker standing with a food services delivery cart that holds a single, bright red bucket.<\/p>\n

Gascho, who has been taking photos since the 1960s (he took his favorite through a pair of binoculars in 1965 at President Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s inauguration), presented about his photography, poetry and work<\/a> at EMU during the 2015 Homecoming weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I hope for in my art is that people would see things in different ways \u2013 to see a patient differently or understand something about themselves, about medicine, healing, et cetera, in a different way,\u201d he said that year. \u201cWhen we see things in a different way, it\u2019s kind of an \u2018Aha!\u2019 moment, an epiphany, and we can do things differently. We tend to make the most changes when we have those moments. That\u2019s what I hope a photograph or a poem can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The appreciation for people beyond their physical conditions is something that Gascho also attempts to convey in the humanities course he teaches to fourth-year medical students, who are taught to \u201ccritically explore and create visual imagery and integrate clinical knowledge and experience with humanities.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a new project that Gascho, is currently photographing operating room objects and writing \u201cprose poems about the brain, heart and kidney,\u201d the article states \u2013 \u201call things that can be looked at in ways not normally seen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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