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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

If we can borrow from music and art to improve care, why not from literature? asks Daniel Allen

Do you ever read Scientific American ? Me neither. But I did happen upon it the other day, only to get distracted by the way American academics love a middle initial. But, suddenly absorbed by an article on ‘narrative medicine’, I managed to ignore all those superfluous Ps and Qs.

Nursing Standard. 19, 37, 30-30. doi: 10.7748/ns.19.37.30.s28

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