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Hunter observes that most of the rituals and traditions of medicine and medical training are narrative in structure and explains why narratives such as cautionary tales anecdotes case reports and clinical pathological conferences are central not peripheral to medicine. Addressing readers on both sides of the patient physician encounter kathryn hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story a patients job is to tell the physician what hurts and the physicians job is to fix it but how does the physician know what is wrong. Doctors stories kathryn montgomery hunter paperback isbn 9780691015057 4795 gbp4000 doctors stories the narrative structure of medical knowledge kathryn montgomery hunter paperback price 4795 gbp4000 isbn 9780691015057 published mar 21 1993 . Doctors stories the narrative structure of medical knowledge by hunter kathryn montgomery and a great selection of related books art and collectibles available now at abebookscom 9780691068886 doctors stories the narrative structure of medical knowledge by hunter kathryn montgomery abebooks. A patients job is to tell the physician what hurts and the physicians job is to fix it but how does the physician know what is wrong what becomes of the patients story when the patient becomes a case addressing readers on both sides of the patient physician encounter kathryn hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story the patients story