title: Medicine and the arts. The Death of Ivan Ilyich [excerpt] by Leo Tolstoy. Commentary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: S Ryan
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Gregory
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D004645:Empathy; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D012426:Russia; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology