title: Emergency medicine narratives: a systematic discussion of definition and utility.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Grace Hospital, Morganton, NC 28655, USA. hawk@aya.yale.edu
authors.forename: Seth Collings
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Hawkins
mesh_terms: 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