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Article: Terribly and punishingly great.(The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review)(Book review)
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- The Hastings Center Report
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- January 1, 2009
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The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review. Ed. Danielle Ofri and the staff of the Bellevue Literary Review. Bellevue Literary Press, 2008. 320 pages. $16.95. Paperback.
America as a whole and American medicine in particular seem sold on narrative medicine--the idea that since stories are the backbone of how patients and doctors relate, learning how to create and listen to them assists healing. Doctors who write creatively have become big business, and many medical schools publish their own literary journals, which increasingly attract writers of the same caliber as some of the most venerable literary journals published by creative writing programs.
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