Cindy Weinstein on Nostr: #NarrativeMedicine is a discipline that makes the case for the importance of empathy, ...

#NarrativeMedicine is a discipline that makes the case for the importance of empathy, time listening, & "close reading" as doctors engage with patients. Their stories are as significant as bloodwork, PET images, & CATscans. What we are now seeing is a different kind of storytelling -- stories about money and care denial and suffering that creates and exacerbates illness. It makes me wonder if narrative medicine is even possible.

https://www.aamc.org/news/narrative-medicine-every-patient-has-story

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