The stories clinicians tell

Abstract

Unbelievably, it has been more than 15 years since I last visited Palacký during the inaugural year of its Clinic. So, in preparation for today’s talk, I thought I should go back to my files to refresh my memory of events a decade-and-a-half ago.  As I reviewed those documents, it struck me how the events of that time were much more complicated than I initially remembered.  In fact, I saw how my retelling of the events reflected in those papers could be constructed – with appropriate spin -- into different stories -- some of which could be dramatically divergent from others.