Doctors' Stories

Doctors' Stories
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9780691214726
ISBN-13 : 0691214727
Rating : 4/5 (727 Downloads)
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Book Synopsis Doctors' Stories by : Kathryn Montgomery Hunter

Download or read book Doctors' Stories written by Kathryn Montgomery Hunter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the patient-physician encounter, Kathryn Hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story--the patient's story of illness and its symptoms.


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