My maternal grandmother was dominant person in my growing up…
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Medical Narratives
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I moved from Dearborn Michigan to Brighton Beach New York a few years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.…
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Dr. Zahra Bardai BSc MD CCFP (COE) MHSc FCFP 200hRYT,
Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Staff Physician, Brock CHC Primary Health Care Program, Cannington ON.
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| Abstract: Stories have the capacity to move us by evoking strong powerful emotions and unlocking potent insights. The narratives that convey the lived experience in medicine bring a sense of meaning and compassion to the science of the discipline. This article is an introduction in a series that depicts stories in medicine and the influence they have on patient care, medical education and physician well being. |
| Key Words: narratives, patient care, medical education, physician well being. |
| The art and science of medicine as seen through a narrative based lens is interwoven in the telling and retelling of the patient and provider's experience. |
| Narrative based medicine involves honing skills of listening, exploring, deciphering and reflecting in order to understand and improve the humanitarian practice of medicine. |
| The practice of narrative medicine involves bearing witness and holding space through attentive mindful listening during a clinical encounter. |
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It was a small storefront, wedged next to a marvelous looking Greek meat shop and bakery.
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Should We Keep Meeting Like This?—The Place for Reunions
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Reunions are unusual and sometimes bizarre phenomena.
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Reunions are unusual and sometimes bizarre phenomena. It is curious that people seem to be drawn to meeting over periods of many years or even decades with people that they may or may not have been close to during some period of their formative years of education. Think about the likelihood that at a high school reunion, you might meet more than a few people of significance in your life or with whom you have even the remotest interest in knowing what they have done during the intervening years.
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