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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.0.0156" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.0.0156</a>
Pages
215–230
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2
Volume
53
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Bless me reader for I have sinned: physicians and confessional writing.
Publisher
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Perspectives in biology and medicine
Date
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2010
1905-07
Subject
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Humans; *Attitude of Health Personnel; Physicians/*psychology; *Physician-Patient Relations; Periodicals as Topic; *Truth Disclosure; Hippocratic Oath; Medical Errors; Medicine in Literature; Narration; Writing; Ethics; Clinical
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Wear Delese; Jones Therese
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From the poetry of William Carlos Williams, the novels of Walker Percy, and the short stories of Anton Chekov to the contemporary essays of Atul Gawande, physicians' contributions to literary genres have been significant. This article explores the specific form of confessional writing offered by physicians during the past half century, writing that often exposes medical error or negative feelings towards patients. A history of confessional practices as a legal tool, as religious practice, and as literary genre is offered, followed by analyses of selected confessional writings by physicians, many of them found in clinical journals such as Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Lancet. The authors of the narratives described here are engaged in several or all elements of the confessional sequence, which may offer them some resolution through the exposure and acknowledgment of their shared humanity with their patients and their expression of regret for any harm done.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.0.0156" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1353/pbm.0.0156</a>
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*Attitude of Health Personnel
*Physician-Patient Relations
*Truth Disclosure
2010
Clinical
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Ethics
Hippocratic Oath
Humans
Jones Therese
Medical Errors
Medicine in Literature
Narration
NEOMED College of Medicine
Periodicals as Topic
Perspectives in biology and medicine
Physicians/*psychology
Wear Delese
Writing