{"pk":48024,"title":"Medicine and the Silent Oracle: An Exercise in Uncertainty","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article describes a simple in-class exercise in reading and writing that, by asking participants to write their own endings for a short narrative taken from the Journal of the American Medical Association, prompts them to reflect on the problem of uncertainty in medicine and to apply the literary-critical techniques of close reading both to the content and the form of a story that describes and enacts the challenges of making decisions in the face of uncertain knowledge.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"narrative"},{"word":"writing exercise"},{"word":"close reading"},{"word":"uncertainty in medicine"},{"word":"Cancer"},{"word":"Diagnosis"},{"word":"clinical interview."}],"section":"Narrative and Storytelling","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hq6k738","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Catherine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Belling","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stony Brook University School of Medicine","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2006-12-21T10:00:00+02:00","date_accepted":"2006-12-21T10:00:00+02:00","date_published":"2006-12-01T10:00:00+02:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cla_jlta/article/48024/galley/36162/download/"}]}