Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care
- Written by Irène Mathieu, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
Medicine is as much about the human experience as it is about biology.Jonathan Knowles/Stone via Getty ImagesWhile 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...
