Metni Bulmayı Öğrenmek: Hekim-Hasta Anlatısal Becerileri

Özet (abstract)

T^he imagination is a powerful instrument in the practice of medicine. The physician's effectiveness increases with empathy, and empathy springs from the ability to imagine the patient's point of view. This encounter hinges on narrative acts: on the patient's ability to tell a story, and on the interviewer's skill in receiving it and hearing its message. Doctors and medical students have much to learn by applying literary criticism and narrative theory to their work. If physicians can learn to attend to their patients' stories as astute readers, they will more effectively understand what will make the patient better. The traditional conceptualization of medical work is that the illness is the text. The hospital chart that documents the illness is a literary genre that follows fairly strict rules of form, voice, pacing. The authors of that description are the professionals who look to the patient to supply the material, the conflicts, and the chance for resolution. The patient is one character in a text whose main character is the illness itself. When a third-year medical student writes the clinical clerk note in the chart, he or she takes on the mantle of the profession and speaks for the team of physicians caring for the patient during the hospital stay. It is a source of great pride for a student to be allowed to write in the chart. Faculty jealously bar

Yazarların özeti; kaynağından alınmıştır., 2016 · DOI ↗