Words and flesh in the NHS.
Working as a clinician within the National Health Service (NHS) in England is described along with the difficulty of identifying a role for the humanities within the organisational framework. The author argues that the humanities are both marginalised and required and that the humanities can provide a means to redefine values within medical practice.
Gull
Sarah
S
School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK. sarah.gull@wsh.nhs.uk
D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006809:Humanities; D006801:Humans; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom