Eve Makoff

2 months ago | thecardiologyadvisor.com | Eve Makoff |Matthew Eck

Health care requires humanity. At its roots, narrative medicine embodies this ideology. Coined in 2000 by internist and scholar Rita Charon, MD, PhD, the field is “medicine practiced with the narrative competence to recognize, interpret, and be moved to action by the predicament of others.”1Without specific examples, however, narrative medicine can slip into a vague, abstract practice within the cultural consciousness.

Nov 15, 2024 | dermatologyadvisor.com | Eve Makoff |Matthew Eck

Health care requires humanity. At its roots, narrative medicine embodies this ideology. Coined in 2000 by internist and scholar Rita Charon, MD, PhD, the field is “medicine practiced with the narrative competence to recognize, interpret, and be moved to action by the predicament of others.”1Without specific examples, however, narrative medicine can slip into a vague, abstract practice within the cultural consciousness.