SCHRIFTSTELLER ALS ÄRZTE VERSUS SCHRIFTSTELLER ALS PATIENTEN
WRITERS AS DOCTORS VERSUS WRITERS AS PATIENTS

Summary/Abstract: When we talk about medicine as a scientific field of research, we rarely expect to see its connection to literature. The article underlines the connection between literature and medicine by speaking about the fact that doctors are gifted writers as well. Nevertheless, some of the best works are written by patients as well. Sometimes doctors become patients, because a physician is not merely a health provider, but he himself can be touched by illness and suffer like any other human being. When this happens, the scientific rendering of the doctor- patient image is unique and offers works of literature that can be analyzed from a double perspective. Doctor- patient renderings of reality and fiction are full of precision, unique depictions of literary universes on a background canvas of objectivity.

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