Erschienen in:
25.01.2019 | Editorial
The Art of Medicine: JGIM Introduces Sketchbook
verfasst von:
Audrey Young, MD, Anna Reisman, MD, Jeremy Graham, DO, MA
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 7/2019
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Excerpt
Busy physicians employ all manner of tricks to capture the essence of each patient in the medical record. Some include personal details—granddaughter’s wedding approaching, loves to fish with dog Tuffy, walks to wife’s grave every day. Before electronic charts became the norm, Dr. Alan Blum sketched quick renditions of his patients to capture an expression, a gesture, a feeling. Readers may see parallels to the physician-poet William Carlos Williams, who, in the tiny space between one patient and the next, would jot down a line or two of description or dialogue in his notebook. …