TY - JOUR T1 - Medical Humanities JF - Quality in Health Care JO - Qual Health Care SP - 128 LP - 128 DO - 10.1136/qhc.10.2.128-a VL - 10 IS - 2 AU - Carol Clewlow Y1 - 2001/06/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/10/2/128.2.abstract N2 - 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 … ER -