Science and art too often find themselves in combative corners, but the disciplines have a surprising intersection for writers. University-sponsored literary journals have served as platforms for writers for decades, but some medical schools host their own journals that publish writers who explore the connections between creativity and healing.
Health professionals have vowed to uphold the Hippocratic Oath for more than 2,000 years, and the modern version, based on the ideas of the original Greek manifesto, includes a nod to the muses: “I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.”
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