Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

Irène Mathieu
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Director, Program in
Health Humanities and Ethics
University of Virginia

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine. Read the full article here