by Sharon Ostfeld-Johns
Annals of Internal Medicine, January 14, 2020
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This is a graphic medical essay about scabies (Norwegian type) and its effects on a medical resident's life. It brilliantly comments on scabies, health anxiety and cyberchoindria. One can appreciate how delusional parasitophobia can be a sequela in some people. Fortunately, the author was not one of them. The combination of text and drawings is a great way to tell the story.
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MORE HUMANISM AND LESS SCIENCE, THAT'S WHAT MEDICINE NEEDS. BUT HUMANISM IS HARD WORK, AND SO MUCH OF SCIENCE IS JUST TINKERTOY. Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man
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