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Narrative Medicine Mondays
December 3, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
What makes a good physician? A person who properly diagnoses and then cures their patients? What if we told you that there’s a third vital characteristic of good physicians – physicians who listen to – and attempt to understand – their patients’ stories. Education philosopher Paulo Freire noted back in 1963, that: “A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship[…]reveals its fundamentally narrative character. This relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students). […] Education is suffering from narration sickness.” Similar observations have been made about clinical encounters between health care providers and patients. In medical environments, “Narrative Medicine”—clinical engagement with patients’ stories, and care for equity and responsivity in the clinical narrative–developed as a remedy. In this Duke Health Humanities Lab sponsored lunch group at the Student Wellness Center, Duke alum (T ’18) and Health Humanities Lab manager Katherine Berko welcomes students for engagement with adolescent health as portrayed in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
This Week’s Theme: Adolescence & Alice in Wonderland
Lunch provided by Parker & Otis.
Location: Duke Student Wellness Center, Room 148