Listening to Stories: Narrative Medicine in Internal Medicine Practice

Narrative based medicine: stories we hear and stories we tell: analysing talk in clinical practice.

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Metaphor and medicine: narrative in clinical practice.

For decades it seems that the art has been slipping away from medicine. Like the ancient Greeks, who lamented the passing of the Golden Age, contemporary physicians, educators, the general public, and especially the sick mourn the loss of the human dimension of medical practice. Fragmentation, subspecialization, lack of continuity, technological demands, burgeoning patient volume, institutional...

Narrative-based medicine: potential, pitfalls, and practice.

Introduction Narratives have always been a vital part of medicine. Stories about patients, the experience of caring for them, and their recovery from illness have always been shared—among physicians as well as among patients and their relatives. With the evolution of “modern” medicine, narratives were increasingly neglected in favor of “facts and findings,” which were regarded as more scientifi...

From basic to clinical practice in internal medicine.

Acta Medica Indonesiana, today is The Indonesian Journal of Internal Medicine, addresses all the concerns of science on Internal Medicine. In this edition, we publish a study conducted by Putra ST.1, a cohort retrospective study on teenager subjects who were breast-fed as infants and the effects on the development of atherosclerosis. This study supported the idea that breastfeeding may have pro...

Narrative medicine and narrative writing.