CMAJ| DECEMBER 4, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 48 E1495 helped him “slow down” and
“be rational.” It was through this process that he had come to a place of understanding and …

Science writers often get asked how to bridge the sciences and humanities, and frankly, I
never know what to say. After all, math gets you much further in understanding quantum …

“This guy should be dead,” my resident said as she assigned me my first surgical patient. I
could see him through the window of his SICU room, twisted, pale, silent—the ventilator's …

Bong Joon Ho's thriller film, Parasite, has swept away viewers and critics since it premiered
in May 2019. The film was the first to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or with …

I wrote an essay in 2017. It traces relationships between chronic pain, digital imaging,
clinical and academic scholarship, metaphor. It argues for a new poetics of pain. It's 12-point …

As Jack Coulehan and Anne Hawkins put it,“writing about patients is a growth industry”[1].
Recent years have seen an explosion of both fiction and nonfiction works written by …

Sometimes editors plan themed issues, sometimes they just happen. With this issue it'sa
little bit of both. A core of five papers (four companion, one unrelated) together set out to …

Several scholarly trends, such as narrative medicine, patient-centered and relationship-
centered care, have long advocated for the value of the patient's voice in the practice of …

When Columbia University opened its Program in Narrative Medicine nearly 20 years ago,
Rita Charon and the other faculty had to make a case for the centrality of storytelling and …

As healthcare becomes more complex, automated, and bureaucratic, patients often suffer
from a lack of resources, agency, and visibility when seeking medical care. Rhetoric and …