Emergency medicine narratives: a systematic discussion of definition and utility.
A substantial number of emergency medicine providers are publishing stories and other creative expressions related to their medical experiences. This is a systematic review of such publications, introduces the term "emergency medicine narratives" to describe such pieces, and proposes a framework to classify the various forms of expression. Specifically, six genres of emergency medicine narratives are discussed: medical autobiography, clinical narratives, creative narratives, out-of-hospital narratives, lay exposition, and photojournalism. This review explores the utility of these narratives and the role they play within the field of emergency medicine, provides a bibliography of emergency narratives, and suggests future questions that might be addressed regarding this growing phenomenon in the field of emergency medicine.
Hawkins
Seth Collings
SC
Department of Emergency Medicine, Grace Hospital, Morganton, NC 28655, USA. hawk@aya.yale.edu
D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014481:United States; D014956:Writing