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Letters |20 November 2001

Narrative Medicine

Rita Charon, MD, PhD

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  • College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; New York, NY 10032 (Charon)
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I appreciate Dr. Poses's voicing concerns about the tensions between knowledge and uncertainty in medical practice. He argues, in effect, that the benefits of realizing the limits of certainty in our science are not worth the risks of upending positivism. I disagree. Perhaps our disagreements—which have been enacted elsewhere—are differences in framing. When I call sickness and doctoring narrative acts, I include within my frame not only the physical, pathophysiologic, and “trackable” events in a body and the pharmacologic and surgical interventions performed in response, but all the personal, emotional, relational, and ontological sequelae of failing health. Such...
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Charon R. Narrative Medicine. Ann Intern Med. 2001;135:930. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-135-10-200111200-00022

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(10):930.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-135-10-200111200-00022

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