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 …

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 …

in a dream of frictionless consensus. When George L Engel, MD, first recommended the new
biopsychosocial model, for example, he subtitled his famous 1977 essay “A Challenge for …

Objective To raise awareness of narrative-based medicine (NBM) as a valuable approach to
the consultation, which, if practised more widely by GPs, would convey considerable …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Once upon a time, medicine dismissed narrative as unimportant and uninteresting. Then, in
the late 1980s, physicians and scholars became interested in how the study of narrative …

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 …

Objective To raise awareness of narrative-based medicine (NBM) as a valuable approach to
the consultation, which, if practised more widely by GPs, would convey considerable …