“PATHOS AND IATROS”: INITIATION IN NARRATIVE MEDICINE
“PATHOS AND IATROS”: INITIATION IN NARRATIVE MEDICINE

Summary/Abstract: Caring for a patient extends nowadays to new therapeutic and diagnosis dynamics, sometimes found in good relations with what we call progress in medicine, other times found in conflict with the life experiences, cultural and spiritual beliefs of patients who produce their own origin for the illness and the way it should be approached. A special contribution concerning self-awareness as well as the doctor- patient relationship is offered by narrative medicine (Charon, 2007; Hazelton, 201; Herman et al., 2012 etc.). This paper analyses the transformation effect that the shaping of narrative competences process has over a group of Romanian medicine students, starting with some of the medical anthropology subjects, on which they were required to write a series of essays. The study intended to stimulate the desire of communication, of sharing and improving communication, contributing to solving a medical act and not to seek the literary value of the submitted work. Surprisingly, the essays with the clearest medical approaches were also the most expressively written.

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