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During his career, Dr. Ryan McCarthy has learned that by becoming a better listener, he can have more empathy and that having more empathy for his patients translates into healthier

Literature has had a large role in helping the author be a fierce advocate for changing the sociopolitical forces that affect patients’ lives.

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine. …

While medical school may teach students about how the body works, it often neglects the social, political and cultural factors that determine health and disease. The humanities can help.

While medical school may teach students about how the body works, it often neglects the social, political and cultural factors that determine health and disease. The humanities can help.

How a narrative approach can help trainees find joy in medicine

John Geyman Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine Posted: 12/06/2012  1:38 pm Even as we marvel at the latest advances in medical technology in this country, a dire and unacceptable consequence of these changes is already in plain sight -- the loss of the patient as person in…

In the practice of narrative medicine, physicians foster trust, empathy, and healing by listening to patients' stories, addressing their full concerns, and embracing the human connection beyond mere data.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ruth J. Simmons, professor, author, and president emerita of Prairie View A&M, Brown University, and Smith College, will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

Narrative medicine encourages doctors to engage more deeply with patients by listening to their stories of experience