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Narrative Medicine: Narrative Medicine - Overview

Narrative Medicine

Narrative Medicine

This guide was developed by the University of St. Thomas Libraries to help the University community and beyond access resources related to Narrative Medicine. The guide covers Narrative Medicine writing, and visual arts.

Definition of Narrative Medicine

According to Columbia University Medical Center, narrativemedicine.org/mededucation.html

"Narrative Medicine is medicine practiced with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and honor the stories of illness. This competence lets doctors imagine and enter patients' worlds, represent complex events or situations so as to understand them, and reflect on their own experiences in caring for the sick."

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