Storytelling in Medicine - How Narrative Can Improve Practice

This unique, practical book for healthcare trainees, practitioners and educators explores the ideas and practice of narrative that lie at the very heart of clinical medicine. It shows how narrative can be used effectively to help convey concepts such as prognosis, and to prepare patients and their relatives for difficult and painful news.

List of contents

1. To begin at the beginning
2. The power of narrative and story
3. Stories in the consultation
4. The patient’s story, the doctor’s story
5. Children and story
6. Story as performance
7. A student’s story
8. Stories in medical education and training
9. A hospital’s story
10. A paramedic’s story
11. You should write
12. The end of the story?

Index

About the author

Colin Robertson is Honorary Professor, Accident and Emergency Medicine and Surgery, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Gareth Clegg is Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, Emergency Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK.
James Huntley is Professor of Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Summary

This unique, practical book for healthcare trainees, practitioners and educators explores the ideas and practice of narrative that lie at the very heart of clinical medicine. It shows how narrative can be used effectively to help convey concepts such as prognosis, and to prepare patients and their relatives for difficult and painful news.

Product details

• Authors: Colin (Professor in Accident and Emerge Robertson
• Assisted by: Gareth Clegg (Editor), Clegg Gareth (Editor), James Huntley (Editor), Colin Robertson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032529165
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252916-5
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, MEDICAL / Test Preparation & Review, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine, Medical study & revision guides & reference material, Medical study and revision guides and reference material