Amid the fear and uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus, doctors and nurses are using narrative medicine to communicate more openly with their patients.
A photographer documenting the coronavirus fight at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital recalls her mentor, a nun who like hospital staff embodied care and compassion.In the real world, doctors are often narrowly focused, devoting most of their attention to a patient’s chief complaint. Theybefore interrupting them, according to a 2018 study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Narrative medicine seeks to change that.
“If we train physicians to listen well, for metaphor, subtext and more, they can absorb and act on their patients’ stories even if they have limited time,” she said.In practice, narrative medicine has diverse applications. Modern electronic health records, with their templates and prefilled sections, can hamper a doctor’s ability to create meaningful notes, Gowda said. But doctors can counter that by writing notes in language that makes a patient’s struggles come alive, he said.
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