“If I Were Told the Experience of Medical and Surgical Resuscitation...” The Resuscitation Notebooks of Benoît Misset. The Ethical Powers of Writing

The experience we want to report on and about which are going start thinking is not entirely new. It has already taken place in several hospitals that deal with medical surgical resuscitation; many reports of it have been published literature echoes voices patients who did fairly well. Psychiatry had used notebooks for patients, encouraging each them keep a diary only the author himself perhaps his doctor some caregivers knowledge. But here what immediately makes difference between structure fit when they implemented by Benoît Misset psychiatry. Unlike happens most time psychiatry, patient intensive care able diary. Everything as if various characters, use pronouns I, we, you, thou, they, she or he, kept themselves, addressing talking him. voice staff can be heard, like over, giving information state health sick person enters service, his/her age, order objectively present situation. learn known through interlacing us discover, gradually snippets, he was, members family, friends, colleagues were, so trade how lived even elements led him resuscitation service.