By Clif Cleaveland. 210 pp. Philadelphia, American College of Physicians, 1998. $21.95. ISBN 0-943126-64-9.
There is a renewed interest in the narratives of patients asrecounted by their physicians. These stories of illnesses, oftenpainful in the retelling, reveal much about the nature of thesuffering experienced by patients and by the physicians whocare for them. I suspect that the renewed focus on the storiesof individual patients comes in part as a response to the mannerin which medicine has evolved during the past quarter-century.The explosion of scientific information that finally allowsus to understand and treat diseases on the basis of cellularand molecular pathophysiology has, at the same time, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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