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Jennifer McCormick has a strong stomach. McCormick, the founder of Art for Law and Medicine, a medical illustration company, often spends long hours creating images of shattered bones, botched surgeries and bleeding brains.
But she isn’t drawing the images because she likes gory photos. The illustrations are typically used to educate physicians and sway juries in courtrooms.
Her company is based in Clemmons, but plans to move to Winston-Salem. Its business is one of the clearest examples of the way that design is used to create products and services, local technology officials said.
The company faces some competition. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center maintains its own medical illustration department, for example. The department designs images for doctors who appear as expert witnesses in trial cases, said Annemarie Johnson, an illustrator for the medical center.
Johnson designs illustrations for local lawyers as well. The need for medical illustrators has grown because more doctors, publishers and lawyers are requesting detailed medical images for lay people. ‘It’s primarily an education tool,’ she said.
McCormick’s company has 3 employees. It moved here from Miami about 9 months ago. It creates high-resolution images for lawyers in medical-malpractice and personal-injury cases.
The company illustrates the steady merging of the health-care, arts and design industry in the area, said James DeCristo, the director of economic development and external affairs for the N.C. School of the Arts. Read on.
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