The operating room: bright lights, sharp tools, and surgical precision. It’s the last place you’d expect to find echoes of a creative writing workshop. But what if, beyond the incision, surgery isn’t just a science of repair—but an art of storytelling?
That’s the central theme of “What’s Important: Beyond the Incision: The Power of Patient Narratives in Surgery,” a striking and soul-searching piece in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery by Sonal Kumar, B.A., and Shelley S. Noland, M.D.
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