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84:. Narrative medicine is a way of educating physicians, nurses and other providers that uses storytelling (and active listening) to emphasize the humanity of patient and provider, enabling the "physician to practice medicine with empathy, reflection, professionalism, and trustworthiness." Patient empowerment seeks to create an equal partnership between doctors and their patients, placing values at the center of the healthcare encounter. Both of the practices emphasize the importance of the human experience in the practice of medicine, and help to ensure that the humanity of the patient is not obscured in a morass of lab results, patient charts, and insurance regulations. Humanistic medicine strives to create ideal and balanced care that sacrifices neither cutting-edge science nor the gentle art of creating a caring relationship. Various health professional schools across the 100:
of care. Further, many of the terms used by its advocates such as "soul" and "spiritual" are not well defined or specifically explored experimentally as much as these approaches contribute to patient welfare beyond those employed by the
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often experience high levels of stress and burnout. Health professionals facing a large number of patients are not giving individual patients the care they want, resulting in a very high number of patients seeking
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are becoming unaffordable for many patients, preventing these individuals from receiving adequate healthcare without spending a large percentage of their disposable income. Studies have shown that poor
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have begun to integrate humanistic medical teaching into their curricula in an effort to offset what some view as an over-emphasis on medical technology to the detriment of individual patient care.
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result in frequent lawsuits against healthcare providers. These lawsuits have become a major burden to medical personnel and have risen in both number and cost in developed nations.
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Bombardieri D, Easthope G. Convergence between orthodox and alternative medicine: a theoretical elaboration and empirical test.
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It is not widely accepted that "humanistic medicine" refers to a belief or set of practices that differ significantly from the
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Beckman, Howard (1994). "The Doctor-Patient Relationship and Malpractice Lessons From Plaintiff Depositions".
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is an interdisciplinary field in the medical practice of clinical care popular in the modern
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Patz JA, Jodrey D. Occupational health in surgery: risks extend beyond the operating room.
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and rejecting vaccinations for their children. The rising costs of medical services and
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Charon R. Narrative medicine: A model for empathy, reflection, profession, and trust.
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are facing enormous difficulties in meeting demands given limited healthcare budgets.
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Little, J Miles. Humanistic medicine or values-based medicine...what's in a name?
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Among the approaches used to encourage the practice of a more humane medicine are
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For the medical tradition influenced by Renaissance humanism, see
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Little M. Healthcare rationing: constraints and equity.
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The Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine
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learned medicine
health systems
developed countries
healthcare systems
healthcare systems
Healthcare professionals
alternative treatments
medication
doctor-patient relationships
narrative medicine
patient empowerment
U.S.
biopsychosocial model
biopsychosocial model
doi
10.1001/archinte.1994.00420120093010
PMID
8002688
"The importance of values in evidence-based medicine"
doi
10.1186/s12910-015-0063-3
PMC
4603687
PMID
26459219
Essential Values-Based Practice
ISBN
9780521530255
Remen, Rachel Naomi
The Bravewell Collaborative

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