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Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

  • Written by Irène Mathieu, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
imageMedicine is as much about the human experience as it is about biology.Jonathan Knowles/Stone via Getty Images

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities...

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