“I know that my patients do what I tell them to do.… The difference is being skilled in this
domain. It's not only for the sake of being nice or having a good bedside manner. It's that you …

Charon has called narrative medicine and what her colleagues in the United Kingdom have
called narrativebased primary care. 1, 2 My own experience in offering narrative workshops …

When we practice medicine, we should listen to the stories that our patients tell and offer our
understanding. Or we should help our patients re-tell their stories in a way that both patient …

Narrative-based medicine constitutes a fundamental part of patient-centred medicine, and it
is narrative that allows us to communicate and to build a relationship with our patients.''The …

The practice of conventional medicine is rooted in the ability of a patient to effectively
communicate with their physician, and for the physician to comprehend the patient's story …

Background Medical narrative is changing: a movement from the physician's narrative to
patient's narrative. In modern times, the dominant medical narrative has been the physician's …

Physician anecdotes about their patients have always been a part of medical education and
clinical practice. In the post-Flexnerian era, with the introduction of increasingly …

ones that they find more useful or meaningful. Such approaches point to a new way of
looking at primary care; as a place where patients bring 'broken stories' 12 and invite …

Objective To raise awareness of narrative-based medicine (NBM) as a valuable approach to
the consultation, which, if practised more widely by GPs, would convey considerable …

Our lives are made up of stories. Stories have a direction and draw the reader into the
mystery of what will happen next. Some of our earliest memories are of stories told to us at …