title: Doctors who write literature may be considered to have crossed from science to the humanities obtaining release from the rigid constraints of logic, experiment and fact, and gaining the freedoms of imagination, metaphor and fiction.
authors.forename: Alastair
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Compston
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000523:psychology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history; D014956:Writing / Q000266:history*