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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 →
La medicina narrativa digitale diventa di gruppo. Nasce il Digital Narrative Group
Gli strumenti digitali per l’applicazione della medicina narrativa nella pratica clinica possono essere molteplici: email, software per la ricerca come surveymonkey, anche skype. Tutti però nascono con altre funzioni e rischiano di rendere più difficile o distorto il percorso. Continua a leggere →
Medical professionalism and Health Humanities
What the study of literature can contribute to the conversation Continua a leggere →