TY - JOUR AU - Zhang, Grace PY - 2020/11/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - SOAP JF - Ars Medica JA - AM VL - 15 IS - 2 SE - Poetry DO - UR - https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1081 SP - 2 AB - <p>The SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) format is taught very early in medical education as a way of structuring a note in the medical chart; it thus has a very formative effect on subsequent learning and forms basic categories into which all medical information is placed. This poem satirizes physicians' reverence of the SOAP note as a foundation of written communication, highlights some of its shortcomings, and also explores how deeply formatting choices can shape the way physicians view their patients.  </p> ER -