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Clinical records: the medical writing from the patient's story to the medical narrative.
Colomb Med (Cali)
March 2020
Universidad del Valle, Facultad de Salud, Escuela de Medicina. Cali, Colombia.
A historical follow-up on the medical diaries about the patient is made, from the Hippocratic texts to the appearance of the current canon of the clinical history formulated by Boerhaave in the seventeenth century, through the medieval and the and of the Renaissance; and it is discussed how much the patient's story is present in those writings. It is postulated that the medical narrative that starts from adequately listening to the patient and his story, and adopts a literary workshop format, it is a pedagogical tool that contributes to comprehensive medical training, and offers the patient the opportunity to be treated in an empathic and humanized environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn a variety of ways attention is being drawn nowadays to the fact that Pieter van Foreest (1521-1597) died four hundred years ago. The question arises, however, whether such a comprehensive commemoration is justified by Van Foreest's contribution to the development of medical science. Medical history certainly does not attribute concrete substantial new findings to his name.
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