When Medicine Meets Literature.

• Autores: Marguerite Holloway
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 292, Nº. 5, 2005, págs. 38-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article reports on the field of narrative medicine which is designed to train physicians to be more empathetic with patients. The field--alternatively called narrative medicine, literature and medicine, or medical humanities, depending on the approach--began by most accounts about 30 years ago and is now widely reflected in medical school curricula around the country. Ron B. Loewe, an anthropologist and authority on narrative medicine at Mississippi State University, recalls interviewing doctors and patients at Cook County Hospital in Chicago about diabetes because few patients were complying with their doctor's orders and many were doing poorly.