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Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out

@inproceedings{McEntyre2013PatientPI,
  title={Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out},
  author={M. McEntyre},
  year={2013}
}

M. McEntyre

Published 2013

Medicine

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Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt vehicle for articulating the often isolating experiences of pain, fatigue, changed life rhythms, altered self-understanding, embarrassment, resistance, and acceptance.