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The Internist's Reading: One Kind of “Success”

1994; American College of Physicians; Volume: 121; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7326/0003-4819-121-10-199411150-00022

1539-3704

Abraham Verghese,

Empathy and Medical Education

Literature of Medicine15 November 1994The Internist's Reading: One Kind of “Success”Abraham Verghese, MDAbraham Verghese, MDSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-121-10-199411150-00022 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail As a busy internist, it has been easy for me to justify forsaking nonmedical reading in order to keep up with the journals, the monographs, the updates, and the “Seminars in __” that pile up on my office desk and eventually spill off of my nightstand at home. But in this era of AIDS, the reading of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction has taken on a different quality for me, I might even say an urgent quality: Fiction and poetry allow me to freely cross the boundaries that limit me in the daytime. For all of the sophisticated medical technology ... Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Corresponding Author: Abraham Verghese, MD, Texas Tech Medical Center, 4800 Alberta Avenue, El Paso, TX 79905. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byHumanistic Qualities in End-of-Life Care: Lessons from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death —Required Reading in an End-of-Life Care Curriculum for Internal Medicine ResidentsPoetry on rounds: a model for the integration of humanities into residency training 15 November 1994Volume 121, Issue 10Page: 821-822KeywordsAIDSAcademic medicineAttentionBrainConsciousnessCyclic adenosine monophosphateJewish peopleSafetyWarts ePublished: 15 August 2000 Issue Published: 15 November 1994 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1994 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...