Physicians practicing other occupations, especially literature. The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York. [Mt Sinai J Med] Journal article

Title	Physicians practicing other occupations, especially literature.
Author(s)	Green JP
Institution	Department of Pharmacology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029.
Source	Mt Sinai J Med 1993 Mar; 60(2):132-55.
MeSH	History, 16th Century History, 17th Century History, 18th Century History, 19th Century History, 20th Century History, Ancient Humans Literature Literature, Modern Physicians Poetry Writing
Abstract	Literature has been the favored nonmedical pursuit of physicians probably because the practice of medicine is suffused with narratives, the patient's history being one. Arthur Conan Doyle regarded medicine as a "grim romance," Somerset Maugham as an opportunity to see "life in the raw," and William Carlos Williams treated "the patient as a work of art." These sentiments may be linked to humanistic medicine. At some medical schools, literature is taught in the context of and integrated with medicine in an attempt to enhance ethics and empathy which were explicitly expressed by some physician-writers.
Language	eng
Pub Type(s)	Historical Article Journal Article
PubMed ID	8469245

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