“…12 The next largest category, with seven individual papers, comprises essays in literary criticism and exploration, including any lessons they may provide for clinical medicine. These include papers on short stories by Kafka 13 and Chekhov, 14 a play by Jules Romain, 15 the Sherlock Holmes tales, 16 Hamlet and depressive illness, 17 medical syndromes in French nineteenth century fiction, 18 and the lessons of television drama for clinical craft. 19 Vying for third place is the category of papers devoted to medical education matters, with four papers, to which should be added the shorter papers on educational matters featuring in our regular "Education and debate" column.…”