Abstract
An increasing proportion of health professionals and scholars of the humanities is interesting to the Narrative Based Medicine. The terms used indicate a mode of coping with the disease aims to understand its meaning in an overall, systematic, broader and more respectful of the patient. The Narrative Based Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and become aware of the stories of the disease. Health professionals can acquire these skills through courses of medical humanities that include the use of different types of narrative text. Narrative medicine uses also literary texts in order to improve narrative and empathic ability of clinicians. This perspective also allows considering the Chekhovian literary work within a holistic vision linking scientific background and literary creativity. The material used for this study is the tale The Typhus by A. Chekhov adapted from Novels and Theater. The text analysis is conducted with the logical and conceptual tools derived from the Psychology of Art and Creativity and in the perspective of narrative based medicine. In the story we are examining the Russian writer, who never gave up being a medical officer throughout his life, manages to make a perfect synthesis between the scientific background and his literary creativity, combining a careful clinical description of the symptoms of the typhus with evocative depictions of the characters and the environment he captured with brushstrokes capable of creating a picture having a purely artistic value and meaning. Narrative based medicine, which also makes use of narrative about the disease written by physicians or patients or even by medical patients, is a good opportunity for the medicine to go beyond the technocratic vision of the scientific evidence and draw closer to the wholeness of the experience of individual patients.
Highlights
The relationship between medicine and literature unfolds in countless values and points of contact are so many, seems unrealistic to do a report proposing to treat the subject in a comprehensive manner
This becomes especially true in the current society where the sick person is not a clinical object but a subject who claims the right and the ability to access all of the available scientific proposals for purposes of health or well-being, to heal the diseases
Modern Scientific medicine presents itself as a science more open to the complexity of the world and more available to communicate with different kinds of knowledge. Proof of this is the fact that an increasing proportion of health professionals and scholars of the humanities is interesting to the Narrative Based Medicine
Summary
The relationship between medicine and literature unfolds in countless values and points of contact are so many, seems unrealistic to do a report proposing to treat the subject in a comprehensive manner. The medicine has, in the relationship with the patient, intuitive aspects that the approach to art, on the other hand, the literature is often inspired by the medicine and this is reflected in the very language of the two disciplines and their history Proof of this is the fact that many of the novels that tell of “adventures health” are written by doctors or patients or even by medical patients. The subject has been treated either as a background to the events narrated and expression of the time, both as a scientific and medical testimony; the most interesting aspect of the story of the disease is, in any case, usually the direct experience, the way in which it is subjectively experienced by the main characters of the story or novel This becomes especially true in the current society where the sick person is not a clinical object but a subject who claims the right and the ability to access all of the available scientific proposals for purposes of health or well-being, to heal the diseases. They are rightfully part of the narrative based medicine even the stories about patients and doctors, health and disease: short stories or films, made mostly by narrators who do not have health professional experience, but with their “secular” vision often imbued with personal experiences of suffering, make it clear to health professionals, regardless of their professional affiliation, that medicine is cure diseases, and take care of the suffering people [4]
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