narrative medicine

Narrative medicine can help nurses, doctors, social workers, and patients work together.

We welcome reflections on and research into narrative medicine for this issue.

The lost art of listening to the patient has been the inspiration behind a narrative medicine movement in medical schools.

"At the simplest level, narrative medicine means I take seriously that life really is a story," he says.

Narrative medicine is a medical approach that recognizes the value of people's narratives in clinical practice, research, and education.

Just Checking fits into the literary genre of narrative medicine.

The purpose of narrative medicine is to add a more meaningful component to sickness and disease.

But while other movements have used psychological and spiritual terms, narrative medicine uses literary ones.

Narrative medicine, on the other hand, is new, clinically relevant and has great potential."

What, skeptics wonder, does that say about the verisimilitude of narrative medicine?

The value of narrative medicine has been summarized as follows:

Narrative medicine imports terms from literature to describe the doctor-patient relationship.

But the narrative medicine movement is part of an ongoing trend in exposing medical students to the humanities.

Speaking over 5 languages, she lecturers around the world on topics that include narrative medicine.

Does narrative medicine actually work or is it merely a fiction in love with fiction?

The report on narrative medicine said physicians have a unique role to witness suffering and be a charismatic authority.

Narrative medicine appears to answer a central paradox.

Like many well-intentioned humanistic trends, narrative medicine may eventually fizzle out.

When narrative medicine strays too far from medicine, however, it seems to lose its footing.

Siegel's narrative is a perfect example of the genre of narrative medicine.

Among the approaches used to encourage the practice of a more humane medicine are narrative medicine and patient empowerment.

There are degrees to fit every niche and new twist in the culture, whether homeland security, social networking, hybrid cars or narrative medicine.

"Medical humanities programs are not at heart as practical a set of clinical skills as narrative medicine," Charon told me.

At Columbia, every second-year medical student is required to take a seminar in the humanities or in narrative medicine itself.

Medical practice that embraces the importance of stories exchanged in the medical context has been termed "narrative medicine".