Narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the narrative competence to recognize,
interpret, and be moved to action by the predicaments of others. Examining medicine's …

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health
professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles …

The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to
acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine …

Background Medical narrative is changing: a movement from the physician's narrative to
patient's narrative. In modern times, the dominant medical narrative has been the physician's …

Sick persons and those who care for them become obligatory story-tellers and story-
listeners. Hippocrates knew this, Chekhov knew this, Freud knew this, and yet knowledge of …

Recognizing clinical medicine as a narrative undertaking fortified by learnable skills in
understanding stories has helped doctors and teachers to face otherwise vexing problems in …

Methods At Columbia University in New York, NY, we provide narrative training (ie, rigorous
training in close reading, attentive listening, reflective writing, and bearing witness to …

First published in 2002. The doctor patient relationship starts with a story. Doctors' notes, a
patient's chart, the recommendations of ethics committees and insurance justifications all …

Narrative medicine is a conceptual, pedagogic, and clinical discipline designed to fortify
clinicians' capacities to honor patients' accounts of their experiences and to become …

Narrative medicine has developed an identity already. Clinicians of many disciplines are
being summoned to a practice that recognizes patients by receiving their accounts of self …