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Call to Action progetto LIMeNAR

limenar call to actionRealizzare la prima mappa delle attività di Medicina Narrativa in Italia e verificare la diffusione delle Linee di Indirizzo: con questi obiettivi nasce LIMeNAR, progetto di ricerca promosso dall’Istituto Superiore di Sanità in collaborazione con la Società Italiana di Medicina Narrativa (SIMeN), nell’ambito del Laboratorio di Health Humanities del Centro Nazionale Malattie Rare.

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Medical students need to learn the potent medicine of empathy

A few years ago at a large teaching hospital in Texas, a medical resident asked a nurse how to order an autopsy for a patient they were currently treating. It was a reasonable request. Autopsies help further the understanding of disease. There was just one problem: their patient, who was very much alive, was lying nearby. He’d overhead the request, and that’s how he found out he was soon going to die. Continua a leggere