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Medical Humanities
  1. Carol Clewlow
  1. Writer in Residence, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, School of Health Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK

    https://doi.org/10.1136/qhc.10.2.128-a

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      David Greaves, Martyn Evans, Editors. Published twice yearly in June and December as a special edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Personal subscription: £21.00 (US$33.00). London: BMJ Publishing Group.

      The template is Chekhov. Or maybe the patron saint. Call him the lode star, anyway, for those who want to bring medicine and the humanities together.

      Picture the scene. There he is, late one night, any night, deep into The Three Sisters, or Uncle Vanya, or The Seagull and there's a knock at the door which, opened up by the housekeeper, reveals a scruffy urchin who says those magic words “Can the doctor come...?”

      And so Chekhov the writer lays down his …

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