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Previous Volume 346:141-142 January 10, 2002 Number 2

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Third edition. Edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone. 416 pp. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2001. $35. ISBN 0-7432-0153-1.

Few physicians and fewer medical students read novels. Nonetheless, literature has much to teach physicians and medical students about the type of work they have chosen. This anthology, aimed primarily at first-year medical students, is made up of bite-sized offerings. It includes 130 pieces (mostly poems, but also stories, essays, and one short play) by 81 authors, with all the pieces chosen because they illuminate an aspect of the practice of medicine. Although it is labeled as a third edition, the collection remains substantially similar to the 1991 first edition (about a dozen authors from the first and second editions . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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