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Doctors' stories

Kathryn Montgomery Hunter

1991168 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1991
first published
  • 1991Princeton University Press · 168 pages · ENGISBN 9780691068886
  • 1993Princeton University Press · 230 pages · ENGISBN 9780691015057

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 -- Provided by the publisher.

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