I went home from my study group and I thought I’d write a song A light hearted little anecdote to carry us along A humorous look at training and the eportfolio Just how do we get our trainees to learn all the things we know? But events that followed after came and stopped me in my tracks And our talks of authenticity had me thinking back Life isn’t always funny when we’re in the here and now An...

Anecdotes are literary products that contain different humour styles. Martin and colleagues stated individuals use four styles, namely, affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive selfdefeating Two of these styles positive two negative. People perform functions in interpersonal relationships by using Anecdote is one the most important elements humour. One types anecdotes Turkish culture Bektashi an...

The new paper by Drs Subramanian, Jones, Kaddour and Krieger (hereinafter Authors) contains many important and subtle insights about the fallacies of single-level research, be it at the individual or ecological level. The Authors urge epidemiologists to consider contexts and multilevel phenomena when investigating and explaining population health. They also criticize the late William S. Robinso...

Using a Burkean framework (1969), this article approaches medical dramas as cultural texts to be read for dominant meanings of health and health care. Burke's representative anecdote illuminates the melding of science, technology, and healing in popular discourses of health, establishing technological intervention as the norm and marginalizing nontechnological (i.e., alternative) forms of healt...

Max Wertheimer told Edwin B. Newman that it was pure chance that on his way to the Rhineland he prematurely got off the train in Frankfurt, and that he did so because he had an inspiration for an experiment that he wanted to perform. Most historians of psychology accept this anecdote, but fail to mention that thereby Wertheimer also mastered the next and decisive step toward his academic career...

We thought that the issues associated with bullying among children and teenagers deserved the attention of bioethicists. We were specifically interested in why bullying has traditionally been treated as an almost normative childhoodexperience, something that is just apart of growing up, and that children should learn to deal with it on their own. Themodel for this benign neglect of the seriousn...

Throughout STFM's 25th anniversary year, we illustrated the dynamic history of family medicine using the personal narratives of some of the discipline's founders and early leaders. We have attempted to take the energy of their spoken words and put it on paper for clinician educators to learn from and lead by. For us, as authors, this process has been enriching and has caused us to reexamine and...

seuyoty was one of the most celebrated medieval authors in arabic literature and during a literary period known as mamlooki era. although anecdote (magama) is a literary type which is written like a story and is based on the beggarliness and trickery of the first character of the story, seuyoty’s anecdotes (maqaamas) are different from the anecdotes of his predecessors. seuyoty’s magamas are no...

identification of the factors causing change in policy process plays an important role in implementing healthy policy process. narrative policy framework introduces new concepts and tools to identify the factors causing policy change. one of the important variables in narrative policy framework is narrative structure. narrative structure has so many elements which the main one is plot. plot lin...