Real-Life Decision Making
You have been a self-employed medical illustrator for the past five years. However, it is becoming harder to be successful.
"Fifteen years ago, the majority of medical illustrators had full-time staff positions at medical centers or other health-orientated institutions," says medical illustrator Jaye Schlesinger. "Now, many places have terminated these positions. They favor using freelance illustrators."
It has become a competitive market. Your work must be done quickly and accurately.
The local medical clinic wants you to create an illustration of a kidney by early next week. Normally, you are given more time to work on an illustration.
The medical center isn't concerned as to whether the illustration is a photograph or a drawing. You have access to the community morgue, where you have permission to photograph a healthy kidney.
If you do that, you could easily have it done in the time given. You have taken many photographs before of internal organs. You know the proper lighting and conditions that are required to take a clear picture.
But photos often show more detail than you would put in a drawing. Plus, there may not be a healthy kidney for you to photograph.
Drawing an illustration would solve your detail problem, but it might take too much time.
What do you do?