Sunday, March 30, 2008

Doctors Who Wield the Pen to Heal the Profession - New York Times

Doctors Who Wield the Pen to Heal the Profession - New York Times: "“Doctors are storytellers,” said Kathryn Montgomery, a professor of literature who directs the medical humanities and bioethics program at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “They spend all day long listening to stories and telling stories.”

They tell stories, she went on, even when no one is around to listen — to clarify their own thoughts, to teach and to stimulate research. “It’s not surprising they write,” she said."

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