Exploring the medical humanities
BMJPublished 6 November 1999Open access
M.R. Evans, David Greaves
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This vivid urging that doctors embrace the “point where art and medicine collide” proclaims both the now familiar ethical dimension of the clinical encounter and also a more recently acknowledged creative or “artistic” one.
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