As you can probably tell, I have a love of information graphics. My favorite piece from Edward Tufte's book Envisioning Information is a hospital receipt documenting the slow death of Mrs. K. First published in Harper's in 1984, this graphic tells the story of 26 days in the hospital for one patient, the procedures that she underwent, and the mounting cost to save her life. In the end Mrs. K died and the information presented tells a different story: the staggering cost of health care and the expense incurred when trying to live. (The prices depicted are from the 1980s, today's figures would be much, much higher.)
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