Abstract
Text and Context consists of excerpts from literature (novels, short stories, poetry, plays or creative non-fiction) followed by an accompanying essay discussing the significance of the work for clinical practice or medical education.The novel Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff follows a family through the tensions and upheavals that accompany a diagnosis, decline, and death from dementia. This excerpt from an early chapter describes a family meeting with a neurologist to discuss Mother’s test results. The narrator is a philosophy professor. His brother is a neuropathologist, their father a soil chemist, and their mother a painter.
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