The personal story affects the credibility of the narrator in a way of seeing the doctor in a more human way, and not as a delivery of medicine and science.The patient told a story to the doctor when he was a kid and went to a fight with his uncle. At the end of the article the doctor identified himself as “The Angel” and the patient as the “Masked Marvel.” The article ended with the doctor saying “It’s
not fair,” he was breaking the Masked Marvel’s last toehold. Identifying himself in the story, and seeing how he was changing the patient’s life. On the one hand, the doctor was doing his job, saving the patient’s life. But on the other hand, the other part of the job, which was in an emphatic way connecting and being human towards what were the patient’s feelings.