3 Topic Commentaries

Narrative Medicine: A Clinical Tool for the Oncology Advanced Practitioner

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  Rita Charon, MD, PhD

  Narrative Medicine; General Internal Medicine

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  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others.

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  Puja Venkat, MD

  Radiation Oncology

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  David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

  Every day I walk with them in their fear, their hope, their love, their loss and their grief.

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  Laura B. Vater, MD, MPH

  Medical Oncology (Gastrointestinal Oncology)

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  Indiana University School of Medicine

  Narrative medicine is something that helps me to pause, to slow down, to see the humanity in my patients,

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