• Some Pitfalls of Narrative Medicine and How to Avoid Them

  • Aug 20 2024
  • Durée: 56 min
  • Podcast

Some Pitfalls of Narrative Medicine and How to Avoid Them

  • Résumé

  • The term “Narrative Medicine” (NM) refers to a range of activities, including close reading and reflective writing about literature, designed to improve the clinician-patient relationship. What could go wrong? Our returning guest, English professor Laura Greene, lays out the case for narrative medicine, while co-host Saul Weiner highlights his concern that the challenges and rewards of interacting therapeutically with patients are categorically different from those of a physician interacting with a text. Unless proponents of narrative medicine articulate these differences explicitly, they risk creating unrealistic expectations about what NM can achieve, particularly in regard to actual healing interactions in the exam room.

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