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The Cover of the Textbook Medical Humanities. An Introduction displays an intriguing painting: Hypochondriac (2010) by Amy Bennett (Fig. 1). 1 On her website (amybennett. com), Bennett explains that she is interested in the fragility of relationships and people’s awkwardness in trying to coexist and relate to one another. She constructs 3D fictional scale models with cardboard, foam, wood, paint, glue, and model railroad miniatures from which she develops her paintings. Her series “Sore spots” includes scenes in a doctor’s office. Hypochondriac is one of those paintings and gives us a look into a consulting room in which a woman, dressed in blue, is sitting on an examination table. She is alone, has her back to us as viewers, and appears to be looking at a painting on the wall she is facing. Bennett characterizes her paintings as narrative paintings. As a fly-on-thewall she records moments through which a story …