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Bless me reader for I have sinned: physicians and confessional writing.

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…

Tags: *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

Conflicting plots and narrative dysfunction in health care

Tags: 1999, Castellani B, Department of Family & Community Medicine, History & Philosophy of Science, Journal Article, NEOMED College of Medicine, Perspectives in biology and medicine, Research & Experimental Medicine, Wear D

Creating difficulties everywhere.

In this essay we link the rationale for the medical humanities with radical hermeneutics, a move that infuses the medical humanities with incredulity and suspicion. This orientation is particularly important at this historical moment, when the…

Literary inquiry and professional development in medicine: against abstractions.

The professional development discourse currently circulating in academic medicine owes much to the work of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and their Project Professionalism. They identify the elements of altruism, duty, excellence,…

Tags: *Literature, *Professional Competence, 2002, Altruism, Bioethics and Professional Ethics, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education, Humans, Medical/*methods, Narration, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nixon Lois LaCivita, Perspectives in biology and medicine, Wear Delese

Medicine and place: an inquiry.

This essay explores the various places inhabited by doctors and patients, in order to lead doctors to a more complex understanding of their patients' experiences of illness. Using Adam Haslett's "The Good Doctor" (2002), we examine what happens when…

Tags: *Attitude of Health Personnel, *Medicine in Literature, *Physician-Patient Relations, 2006, Aultman Julie M, College of Graduate Studies, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Humans, Medical, NEOMED College of Graduate Studies, NEOMED College of Medicine, Perspectives in biology and medicine, Physician's Role, Physicians/*psychology, Sociology, Wear Delese

The Medical Humanities - Introduction

Tags: 2007, Department of Family & Community Medicine, History & Philosophy of Science, Jones T, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, NEOMED College of Medicine, Perspectives in biology and medicine, Research & Experimental Medicine, Wear D

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