The Human Remains: Drawing Out Compassion in Medicine

Under the fluorescent lights of the anatomy lab, a first-year medical student makes his opening incision into a donor’s body and embarks on a profession that will ask more of him than he can imagine. The Human Remains is a graphic memoir about what medical training takes and what it might give back.

In spare, unflinching panels, Dr. Nathan A. Gray traces his path from an anxious studen...