Literature and medicine: Contributions to clinical practice

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 599-606

  Charon, Rita ^a   Banks, Joanne Trautmann ^b   Connelly, Julia E ^c   Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker ^b   Hunter, Kathryn Montgomery ^d   Jones, Anne Hudson ^e   Montello, Martha ^f   Poirer, Suzanne ^g  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; LITERATURE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0028962209     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-122-8-199504150-00008     Document Type: Review

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