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| Title |
From Doctors’ Stories to Doctors’ Stories, and Back Again
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|---|---|
| Published in |
The AMA Journal of Ethic, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.3.nlit1-1703 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marcia Day Childress |
| Abstract |
Stories have always been central to medicine, but during the twentieth century bioscience all but eclipsed narrative's presence in medical practice. In Doctors' Stories, published in 1991, Kathryn Montgomery excavated medicine's narrative foundations and functions to reveal new possibilities for how to conceive and characterize medicine. Physicians' engagement with stories has since flourished, especially through the narrative medicine movement, although in the twenty-first century this has been challenged by the health care industry's business-minded and data-driven clinical systems. But doctors' stories-and Montgomery's text-remain crucial, schooling clinicians in reflection, ethical awareness, and resilience. Physicians who write even short, 55-word reflective stories can hold to humanistic and ethical understandings of patient care and of themselves as healers even as they practice in systematized settings and employ evidence-based expertise. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 39 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 11 | 8% |
| Canada | 8 | 6% |
| New Zealand | 3 | 2% |
| Australia | 3 | 2% |
| Spain | 2 | 1% |
| Ireland | 2 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Kuwait | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 3% |
| Unknown | 71 | 49% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 72 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 36 | 25% |
| Scientists | 31 | 21% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 6 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 51 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 51 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 27% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 12% |
| Researcher | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 16% |
| Unknown | 12 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 35% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 8% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 6% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Unknown | 17 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 90. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 February 2018.
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#498,574
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Outputs from The AMA Journal of Ethic
#129
of 2,811 outputs
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#10,151
of 328,403 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The AMA Journal of Ethic
#6
of 40 outputs
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