@article{Bartlett_2015, title={When Writing Cuts Deep: The Rhetoric of Surgical Short Stories}, volume={9}, url={https://youngscholarsinwriting.org/index.php/ysiw/article/view/133}, abstractNote={This paper defines a new short story genre under the broad umbrella of medical narratives: the surgical short story. The essay identifies the specific characteristics of surgical short stories as the presence of suture theory, the use of suture theory to contract the narrative gap, the use of precise surgical terms, and the placement of surgery at the center of the narrative. The author deconstructs five short stories in light of these characteristics to identify them as examples of the genre. This genre is significant in that it holds the potential to bridge a two-way gap of misunderstanding between doctors and their patients concerning medicine and its goals}, journal={Young Scholars in Writing}, author={Bartlett, Chelsey}, year={2015}, month={Sep.}, pages={106-116} }