Seeing the Patients Behind the Numbers
Data can be useful, but the patient needs to be our priority
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The Power of Narrative Medicine
One thing I find myself doing on a daily basis in my job as a paramedic is telling stories. Not only is it a way of relaying information about my patients when transferring care to another health care practitioner, but it is essential in the way I continue to learn Continua a leggere →
Comunicare e promuovere la salute ai tempi dei social media
Informazione e comunicazione per una maggiore partecipazione del cittadino Continua a leggere →
Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical Machine
An Oregon medical center’s plan to increase efficiency by outsourcing doctors drove a group of its hospitalists to fight back by banding together. Continua a leggere →
Medical professionalism and Health Humanities
What the study of literature can contribute to the conversation Continua a leggere →
Fighting, battling, and beating: combat metaphors in medicine are just wrong
Are you “battling” heart disease”? Have you “beaten” cancer? Are you “fighting”a chronic illness?
5 benefits of online patient communities
If one searches for “online patient communities” over 19 million Internet sites are found. Online patient communities (OPCs) may exist as subgroups of social media sites, non-profit organizations, and increasingly as part of websites of healthcare organizations and stand alone sites. Continua a leggere →
Patient Health through Narrative Medicine
As an internist at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, Rita Charon realized that more could be gained from learning a patient’s story than just charting symptoms as a series of head-to-toe facts. Encompassing health and sickness in a storied structure, with form, frame, characters, plot, and point of view—skills Charon learned while pursuing a PhD in English at Columbia University—had clinical significance. Continua a leggere →