PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J Niemi
TI  - Some perspectives on Chekhov’s short story <em>A Case History</em>
AID  - 10.1136/jmh.2004.000209
DP  - 2006 Jun 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 11--13
VI  - 32
IP  - 1
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/32/1/11.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/32/1/11.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2006 Jun 01; 32
AB  - The Russian writer and physician Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) draws on his clinical experience in many of his stories. One of his later masterpieces entitled A Case History (1898) depicts a physician’s visit to a small industrial community where a wealthy young woman is suffering from diffuse symptoms. The physician, Dr Koryolov, meets the patient and makes a diagnosis. While staying on the estate overnight he also analyses the patient’s relation to her living conditions.