Literary narrative in medical practice

Literary narrative in medical practice.

It is generally accepted that the practice of medicine could be improved by turning to the humanities in general, and to narrative and text interpretation in particular. Neverthless, there is hardly any agreement as to the nature of the clinical text, whether it be the patient's narrative that needs to be richly understood, or the patient as patient who must be both personally and clinically de...

The Literary Genius of the Joseph Narrative

The story of Joseph has been praised as a treasure of world literature. Voltaire confessed it is one of the most precious documents handed down to our own age from antiquity. Neither Egypt nor Babylon can offer anything even remotely comparable. The matchless narrative of the lost son moves old and young alike. As a literary work, it is artistic perfection. The literary genius of The Joseph Nar...

Narrative review of telemedicine consultation in medical practice

BACKGROUND The use of telemedicine has grown across several medical fields, due to the increasing number of "e-patients". OBJECTIVE This narrative review gives an overview of the growing use of telemedicine in different medical specialties, showing how its use can improve medical care. METHODS A PubMed/Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus search was performed using the following keyw...

Automatic Attribution of Quoted Speech in Literary Narrative

We describe a method for identifying the speakers of quoted speech in natural-language textual stories. We have assembled a corpus of more than 3,000 quotations, whose speakers (if any) are manually identified, from a collection of 19th and 20th century literature by six authors. Using rule-based and statistical learning, our method identifies candidate characters, determines their genders, and...

Humanity before Science: Narrative Medicine, Clinical Practice, and Medical Education.