Perspectives on poetry in rheumatology

The Researcher

“…Both writing and reading poetry are known to enhance the ability to understand, comprehend and empathise with sorrow, pain, happiness and joy. This in turn, is known to help clinicians connect better with their patients and build better rapports with them [1]. Aside from the above, poetry as a hobby also offers a creative and therapeutic outlet of emotions for doctors to express themselves both scientifically and otherwise [2].…”