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Opinion: Medicine needs fiction, especially now
The American medical system needs fiction because, as Albert Camus supposedly said, “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” And those in health care, from hospital administrators to clinicians and technicians, need to hear the real truth about health care.
For decades, a small group of physician and nurse writers has provided behind-the-scenes looks at the experiences of being a doctor, the lives saved, the ones lost, and how the profession has changed the way many people look at the world. Nonfiction works by Jerome Groopman, Atul Gawande, Danielle Ofri, Theresa Brown, and others are rightfully recognized as providing important insights to the public about life as a clinician and what can be learned from patients during their most vulnerable periods.
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