Dignity and Narrative Medicine

Narrative medicine and narrative writing.

Dignity in Medicine: Emphasis on Dignity of End Stage Patients

Medicine is the most scientific way of humanity, and the most humanistic science. Its Professional communications are important due to its sensitivity and responsibility. One the most emphasized relation is patient’s dignity. Evidence has shown that the correct relationship rarely will establish between physician and end stage patient and this communication is always associated with many shortc...

Narrative and medicine.

A 36-year-old Dominican man with a chief symptom of back pain comes to see me for the first time. As his new internist, I tell him, I have to learn as much as I can about his health. Could he tell me whatever he thinks I should know about his situation? And then I do my best not to say a word, not to write in his chart, but to absorb all that he emits about his life and his health. I listen not...

Dignity and the essence of medicine: the A, B, C, and D of dignity conserving care.

of the New York Times Book Review, wrote eloquently about the psychological and spiritual challenges of facing metastatic prostate cancer. “To the typical physician,” he wrote, “my illness is a routine incident in his rounds while for me it’s the crisis of my life. I would feel better if I had a doctor who at least perceived this incongruity... I just wish he would... give me his whole mind jus...

Dignity in care in the clinical setting: a narrative review.

This review aimed to explore nursing literature and research on dignity in care of inpatients and to evaluate how the care patients received in the hospital setting was related to perceived feelings of being dignified or undignified. Studies conducted between 2000 and 2010 were considered, using Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and MEDLINE, and the search terms 'patient ...