Why Write Stories about the Past?

Telling stories about stories.

I want to tell you a story. This is a story about stories. As in any good story, we’re going to wander down a few storied paths. One of the paths leads back to 3 award-winning stories.* Remarkable stories by remarkable physicians who take seriously the power of stories—who have written powerful stories. Another path is about the importance of stories for human health and well-being from the per...

Stories From the Past Web

Archiving Web pages into themed collections is a method for ensuring these resources are available for posterity. Services such as Archive-It exists to allow institutions to develop, curate, and preserve collections of Web resources. Understanding the contents and boundaries of these archived collections is a challenge for most people, resulting in the paradox of the larger the collection, the ...

Why write textbooks?

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Why I write.

Why doctors' stories matter.

For me, the invitation to participate in honouring doctors’ stories* completes a circle that has been going around for 20 years. In 1989 I wrote what became my first book, At the Will of the Body,1 which tells the story of my own illness experiences during the mid1980s. I had a virally induced heart attack—which I was disappointed to hear has now been downgraded to a “cardiac incident”—and just...