Jürgen Pieters, friend of the NBM Lab and Professor of Literature and Ghent University in Belgium, published a new article in the Asian Journal of Medical Humanities together with colleague Fleur Helewaut at Ghent University’s Medical School.

The essay examines the use of Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich in medical education. Rather than offering another interpretation of Tolstoy’s text, the article reflects on a teaching experiment conducted with second-year internal medicine residents. The workshop combined shared reading with discussion of an actual medical case, with the aim of deepening participants’ awareness of the dynamics of the physician patient relationship and the role of literature in clinical education.