[Andrea's story].
First-hand accounts of illness experiences provide important insights for other patients and their carers and can be a powerful tool for patient information and professional education. Andrea was ran over by a motor-bike while he was carried by bike and reported a complicated femur fracture. Three different representations of the story are reported and confronted: the bold chronicle of events, that sets the scenery and time sequence; Andrea's mother point of view on what happened after the accident, and during the course of the illness; and Andrea's story, told with his words and drawings. The methodological comments offered as discussion, stress how the collection of relevant patients stories can be a valuable research resource because it can offer a broad perspective which cannot be obtained by other means.
Nobili
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Instituto Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano.
Tognoni
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Staszewsky
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D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D002648:Child; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male