Into the Absurd with Tina Brock

EP 025: Trust, Humility and Mutual Recognition: Talking and Listening In Through Narrative Medicine with Dr. Tony Errichetti and Ginny Drda


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On this week's Into the Absurd, we celebrate the power of storytelling in narrative medicine with Dr. Tony Errichetti and Ginny Drda, who explore the art in their workshops listening2everyword.com geared to the Simulationist Narrative Medicine Community, professionals in patient simulation who meet regularly to examine, discuss, and write about stories and art in all their forms - narratives, poems, photos, speeches, songs, paintings.

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, narrative medicine draws patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, and health activists together to reimagine a healthcare based on trust and trustworthiness, humility, and mutual recognition.
“The goal of narrative medicine from its start has been to improve health care,” says Rita Charon, an internist and literary scholar who directs the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and started the Program at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2000 to teach future doctors and medical clinicians how to elicit, interpret, and act upon the stories of their patients. “This accounts for the title we have chosen for our book, The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine, echoing William Osler’s 1892 The Principles and Practice of Medicine that set the standards for the practice of internal medicine.”
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