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Storytelling in medicine: how narrative can improve practice

By:

Robertson, Colin

Contributor(s):

Clegg, Gareth

Publication details: Boca Raton, FL CRC Press 2017ISBN:

9781785231377

Summary: This book is a unique, practical book for healthcare trainees, practitioners and educators that explores the ideas and practice of narrative and storytelling that lie at the very heart of clinical medicine and the patient ‘experience’ of care. It shows how story and narrative can be used effectively to help convey concepts such as prognosis and the effect of illness upon life, and to prepare patients and their relatives for difficult and painful news.

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xvi, 198p. : 22cm.

This book is a unique, practical book for healthcare trainees, practitioners and educators that explores the ideas and practice of narrative and storytelling that lie at the very heart of clinical medicine and the patient ‘experience’ of care. It shows how story and narrative can be used effectively to help convey concepts such as prognosis and the effect of illness upon life, and to prepare patients and their relatives for difficult and painful news. &nbsp;

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