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Rita Charon first used the phrase “narrative medicine” in 2000 to refer to clinical practice fortified by narrative competence . Narrative medicine is medicine performed with narrative skill and offered as a model for humanism and effective medical practice (1). illuminating medicine’s crucial narrative relations: physician and patient, physician and self, physician and colleagues, and physicians and society.
1. Charon R. Reading, writing, and doctoring: literature and medicine. Am J Med Sci. 2000;319(5):285–91
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