The Importance of Narratives in Diagnosis and Treatment: Storytelling, and the Patient-Practitioner Relationship from the Shen-Hammer model
This short discussion will look at foundational principles in building trust and respect in doctor-patient interactions from the Shen-Hammer model, including pulse and other diagnostics, in framing narratives around patients’ experiences of symptoms and disease.
Connections will be made to the long-standing practice of zhuyou (incantatory medicine).
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The Importance of Narratives in Diagnosis and Treatment: Storytelling, and the Patient-Practitioner Relationship from the Shen-Hammer model
