2023-10-30 03:02:45
New book by Dr. Carlos Alberto Yelin | 30 OCT 23
In his new volume, the author proposes to investigate the particular relationship between his craft and writing. His journey offers a rich framework for reflection.
Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto Yelin released his new book The marriage of medicine and literature (Homo Sapiens editions), which investigates the particular relationship between medical practice and writing, in a historical journey that allows us to reveal the thoughts of dozens of his colleagues who, in addition to their profession, passionately devoted themselves to letters.
In this volume, Yelin compiles the life and contributions to both medicine and literature of the characters he develops on stage, through whom sets up a framework that invites reflection.
Readers will also find part of the author’s history, from his native Santiago del Estero to his professional and teaching development of almost six decades.
“Perhaps the most profound and valuable observations are formulated by those who went through professional practice and then turned to the fascinating world of letters,” says Yelin in The Marriage of Medicine and Literature.
Here, IntraMed shares a fragment as an advance
Chapter 3: The modalities of the Doctor-Writers
The unequal profiles of the authors.
Although from now on we will be more explicit in the analysis, we mention the three categories with which R. Ramirez Camacho, a teaching writer at the Autonomous University of Madrid, begins an accurate article on the topic at hand (Medical Seminar, 2017.Vol. 62) to analyze the link between medicine and literature and is intended to be enunciative: 1º Medical Writers, 2º Doctors Writers and 3º Doctors who Write. Coinciding with this information, over the years, we began to investigate and thus found a list that was too extensive and astonishing, much higher than expected. The basic question of the link between medicine and literature already had a solid argument to be deepened. Especially for that stage of our life where literary scholarship was very modest.
The reasons that link both humanistic tasks are numerous and in both directions. For professional reasons, the doctor must write a lot, from simple prescriptions or indications for studies, clinical histories, or the necessary reports that summarize the patient’s illness. There, usually not only the symptoms and signs experienced by the patient are described; also its emotional, psychological, and socio-familial impact. It is not strange that a tendency to reproduce in personal notes to practice a form of narrative medicine is born in the protagonist. Especially when the circumstance that brings the patient has a greater meaning than the limited consultation.
A current example is the inevitable sadness and its associated depression that sets in as a consequence of the Pandemic, now quiet but not stopping, which overwhelms both the sick and those who assist it. The absence of future perspectives, the constant presence of the eventual contagion of the disease, the inexorable possibility of death promote an expected anhedonia that sometimes paralyzes the patient. There are also numerous situations that increase the motivation to approach the topic more broadly, such as the undesirable tendency to diminish the supportive humanism that is a constant part of our daily work.
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