title: Cinderella revisited.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the references to Cinderella in medical literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analysis of papers published in the past 50 years that mention Cinderella.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The trend for use of Cinderella as a metaphor in medical publications is increasing exponentially. Five separate themes emerged: neglect, identity, transformation, exhaustion, and the mixed metaphor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The medical use of the Cinderella fable is growing in popularity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, 5909 Veterans' Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2E2. Stewart.Cameron@Dal.Ca
authors.forename: Stewart M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Cameron
mesh_terms: D005201:Fantasy; D019365:Metaphor; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*