Medicine optimized for diagnosis and forgot to optimize for understanding. Narrative medicine is the correction — and it's been overdue for decades.
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The Necessary Art: Taking the Title Back
Today I am publishing a book about a theft at the center of Western culture, one its victims were trained to take as a compliment:The Necessary Art: Aristotle's Six Elements in the Clinic, the Courtroom, the Proof, the Blueprint, and the Republic. It runs 342 pages in paperback, it exists in a Kindle edition and a free reading edition you can download right now, and the audiobook will follow as soon as the voice is ready. Those are the facts of the launch. What follows is the case for why this book exists, because its central fact has stood in plain sight for two hundred and eighty years while the people it names were trained to take the theft as a compliment: the professions of the working world were robbed of a word, the robbery has a date and a paper trail, and the word can be taken back. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/11/the-necessary-art-taking-the-title-back/
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#3goodthings (Work)
1. Had wonderful meetings w/ students. Their final paper drafts were beautifully-written w/authentic voices & profound insight. No #AI.
2. Had an introductory meeting w/a Stanford #neurologist w/whom I'll be discussing my #memoir @ the #Stanford Health Library. She's the perfect interlocutor (MA in #NarrativeMedicine, too). More info. about the 6.23 event when the flyer is ready.
3. Attended a #UCSF salon on Courage followed by debrief w/coffee (natch) w/friend.
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Meeting Olga reminded me why I tell these stories. Her strength isn’t loud, it’s lived. From courtroom to hospital room, she’s proof that purpose doesn’t end when life changes.
#LupusWarrior #BrainInjurySurvivor #PatientAdvocate #Resilience #ChronicIllness #Advocacy #HealthJustice #NarrativeMedicine -
Rita Charon writes in her book Narrative Medicine, Honoring the Stories of Illness (2006):
"To know what patients endure at the hands of illness and therefore to be of clinical help requires that doctors enter the worlds of their patients, if only imaginatively, and to see and interpret these worlds from the patient’s point of view. […]"
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#10ottobre giornata mondiale della #SaluteMentale
Su #Altremodernità uno studio sulla salute mentale nella #letteraturanigeriana
⬇️ https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/27244?mtm_campaign=mastodon
#letteratura #letteraturaafricana #Nigerianliterature #NarrativeMedicine #mentalhealth
Da #DissertatioNursing uno studio sulla #Gamification virtuale nella formazione infermieristica rivolta alla SaluteMentale
⬇️ https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/dissertationnursing/article/view/18637?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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'AboutScience' is an #OpenAccess multidisciplinary publisher based in Milan (Italy) and focused on #ClinicalMedicine and #Healthcare in its broadest term, including #DigitalInnovation, #HealthTechnology assessment, #NarrativeMedicine, #PatientEngagement, public involvement, and other topics of growing impact: https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/b435f8aa-ed24-409c-9043-25e0f2dcf72c
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The Alzheimer's Association has uploaded the video of the "Narrative Showcase: Dementia, Life Course, and Storytelling." Here is the link. You just need to register and it is free to watch. I hope you find it valuable.
https://training.alz.org/products/4871/narrative-showcase-dementia-life-course-and-storytelling
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The Alzheimer's Association has uploaded the video of the "Narrative Showcase: Dementia, Life Course, and Storytelling." Here is the link. You just need to register and it is free to watch. I hope you find it valuable.
https://training.alz.org/products/4871/narrative-showcase-dementia-life-course-and-storytelling
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The Heart of Healing: Exploring Narrative Medicine and the Power of Compassion
#NarrativeMedicine #CompassionateCare #Mindfulness #PalliativeCare #KindnessMatters #HealthcareHeroes #WellBeing #HumanConnection #HealingStories #EmpathyInAction #TransformativeCare #LoveAndKindness #PatientCentric #CompassionateInterventions #HealthcareWithHeart
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#NarrativeMedicine is a discipline that makes the case for the importance of empathy, time listening, & "close reading" as #doctors engage with patients. Their stories are as significant as bloodwork, PET images, & CATscans. What we are now seeing is a different kind of storytelling -- stories about money and care denial and suffering that creates and exacerbates illness. It makes me wonder if narrative medicine is even possible.
https://www.aamc.org/news/narrative-medicine-every-patient-has-story
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#NarrativeMedicine is a discipline that makes the case for the importance of empathy, time listening, & "close reading" as doctors engage with patients. Their stories are as significant as bloodwork, PET images, & CATscans. What we are now seeing is a different kind of storytelling -- stories about money and care denial and suffering that creates and exacerbates illness. It makes me wonder if narrative medicine is even possible.
https://www.aamc.org/news/narrative-medicine-every-patient-has-story
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Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care https://theconversation.com/literature-inspired-my-medical-career-why-the-humanities-are-needed-in-health-care-217357
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@michaelormsby. Michael, the event won't be recorded. That said, the book website has some podcasts and other events that were recorded (sometimes with just me; sometimes with and my co-author #neurologist, Dr. Bruce Miller). If there is a specific subject you're interested in (#grief, #caregiving, the science of #dementia, #NarrativeMedicine), I can point you to one of the recorded events that might be of greatest interest and usefulness.
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I am honored to be presenting my work on #FindingtheRightWords in UCLA's Americanist Research Colloquium. I wrote this #memoir w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's. He became ill when I was a #graduate student in the #Berkeley #English dept. so speaking about this to grad students (& faculty) in the English dept.@ #UCLA is especially meaningful. I'll share what I know now about #dementia & #grief & what I wish I knew then.
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I will be talking today about how storytelling (and writing) can help break the #stigma around #dementia. Here is the link to the #HFC community lounge event at 3 pm PT. Hope to see you there.
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuduGpqzkrH92mYXpOogMip3tL9bKnl1OC#/registration
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#JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress sale ends on 12.8. W/discount code of HHOL23, you get 40% off all books & w/purchases over $50, shipping is free. Please consider supporting this wonderful #universitypress (& others!) & if you are looking for a book that clearly explains the #neurology behind #dementia please consider purchasing the #memoir I wrote w/the amazing #Dr.BruceMiller of #UCSF. Here's a link if you want to take a look.
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#JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress sale ends on 12.8. W/discount code of HHOL23, you get 40% off all books & w/purchases over $50, shipping is free. Please consider supporting this wonderful #universitypress (& others!) & if you are looking for a book that clearly explains the #neurology behind #dementia please consider purchasing the #memoir I wrote w/the amazing #Dr.BruceMiller of #UCSF. Here's a link if you want to take a look.
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*The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine* just published its first issue, titled "Inception". It is put out by the California Northstate University College of Health Sciences. The artwork in this issue is phenomenal.
My first published poetry appears in this issue.
https://www.thecalendulareview.com/issue1
#poetry #LiteraryMagazines #LitMag #Literature #NarrativeMedicine #Health #Art #Artwork #Medicine
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It's #UniversityPressWeek! #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress published my most recent book, a #memoir written with #neurologist at #UCSF #BruceMiller -- Finding The Right Words: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain -- & it turns out they are having a holiday book sale from now until December 8. 40% off all books with discount code HHOL2 and free shipping on purchases over $50.00.
https://weinsteinandmiller.com
#EndAlz
#AlzheimersAwarenessMonth
#NationalCaregiversMonth
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It's #UniversityPressWeek! #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress published my most recent book, a #memoir written with #neurologist at #UCSF #BruceMiller -- Finding The Right Words: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain -- & it turns out they are having a holiday book sale from now until December 8. 40% off all books with discount code HHOL2 and free shipping on purchases over $50.00.
https://weinsteinandmiller.com
#EndAlz
#AlzheimersAwarenessMonth
#NationalCaregiversMonth
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Honored to be discussing #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain with members of #UCLA's #ARC (Americanist Research Colloquium) on November 9th from 4 to 5 pm. Thank you #ChrisLooby and the UCLA #EnglishDepartment for the invitation.
#NationalCaregiver'sMonth
#litstudies
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Last month, I had the honor of speaking at Hawai'i's Behavioral Health #ECHO event. Here is a link to our discussion of the memoir I wrote with #UCSF #neurologist, Dr. Bruce Miller, #Finding the Right Words. We talked about #caregiving, #grief, the power of precision #diagnosis, and the value of #narrativemedicine.
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At 3 pm PT, I will be talking about what I learned about #neurology, #caregiving, #grief, and #NarrativeMedicine when writing the #memoir about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's -- #FindingTheRightWords -- with #UCSF #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. The presentation is sponsored by the #Hawai'i State Rural Health Organization and Project ECHO. All are welcome. Attached is the #registration link.
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At 3 pm PT, I will be talking about what I learned about #neurology, #caregiving, #grief, and #narrativeMedicine when writing the #memoir about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's -- #FindingTheRightWords -- with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller. The presentation is sponsored by the #Hawaii State Rural Health Organization and Project ECHO. All are welcome. Attached is the #registration link.
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It is an honor to be virtually presenting at #Hawaii's Rural Health Echo initiative. I will be discussing the #memoir I wrote with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, what I've learned about and from #caregivers, and the value of #narrativemedicine. #EndAlz
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Dear reader, how sorry I am about your father's sudden death. Devastating. I'm glad, though, that despite our very different experiences of a beloved father's death, #FindingtheRightWords spoke to you. #EndAlz, #NarrativeMedicine, #neurology, #dementia, #grief.
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Today is the last day of #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress sale. H4JUL23 is the discount code that gives you 40% off on #books, and if your purchase is $50.00 or more, shipping is free. So many wonderful titles to choose from!
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Today is the last day of #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress sale. H4JUL23 is the discount code that gives you 40% off on #books, and if your purchase is $50.00 or more, shipping is free. So many wonderful titles to choose from!
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@profgoldberg. Loved my visit to #Anschutz and the chance to talk with the wonderful #Dr.MarkKissler. Wish I had met you while I was there!
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#JohnsHopkinsUP is having a July 4th sale starting today until July 7th. All #books are 40% off with the discount code of H4JUL23. On purchases of $50 or more, shipping is free. The Hopkins list is very strong, and I'm honored that my #prize-winning #memoir, written with #neurologist and #dementia specialist #Dr.BruceMiller, is in it. If you click this link, you can read about the book. You can also read the #preface. #EndAlz
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#JohnsHopkinsUP is having a July 4th sale starting today until July 7th. All #books are 40% off with the discount code of H4JUL23. On purchases of $50 or more, shipping is free. The Hopkins list is very strong, and I'm honored that my #prize-winning #memoir, written with #neurologist and #dementia specialist #Dr.BruceMiller, is in it. If you click this link, you can read about the book. You can also read the #preface. #EndAlz
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@jhupress is having a sale through June 6. The 30% off discount code is HMOR23, and if you spend $50 or more you get free shipping. The #memoir I wrote with #neurologist #Dr.BruceMiller -- #FindingTheRightWords: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain -- is included in the sale. If you decide to read it, I hope you find our words helpful. Here's a link to the #book website. https://weinsteinandmiller.com #bookstodon, #narrativemedicine, #lithub, #EndAlz
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@poetactics. Thank you so much for sharing your thesis, which sounds fascinating and important. I can only imagine how challenging it must have been to write, which is true of all theses, but this one in particular maybe? I look forward to reading it. #narrativemedicine, #litstudies.
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I know it's extremely cliché, but being a patient, or a family member of a patient, is a completely eye-opening experience and one I would not wish on anyone.
(Also, Arthur Frank was wrong, it is all chaos narrative all the time, and it sucks.)
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Please consider buying #FindingtheRightWords: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain, published by #jhupress while it's being discounted. The #memoir is about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's, which I wrote with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller. Readers have said it captures the complexities of #grief that often accompany #dementia, & the #neurology behind the many diseases (#FTD, #CTE, et al.) comprising #dementia. #EndAlz, #medhums, #litstudies, #narrativemedicine https://weinsteinandmiller.com
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You know you want to.... #NarrativeMedicine #MedMastodon #MedicalEducation
First up, Dr. Jennifer Lawson on "Stories Told and Untold." Register by 5/23 to receive the Zoom link!
https://trentcenter.duke.edu/narrative-medicine-summer-series-0
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Registration open for the 2023 #NarrativeMedicine workshop, ft performance on Thurs 4/27 and panel discussion/experiential workshop on Fri 4/28. Free for faculty and staff @dukeu thanks to generous support from the Office of Faculty Advancement.
https://sites.duke.edu/2023narrativemedicineworkshop/
Not at Duke or can't come in person in April? Sign up for our free monthly online series. Next session is today at 12:15 Eastern time!
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I am taking the Narrative Medicine Certificate of Professional Achievmnet through Columbia University right now and it is blowing my mind - in a good way :) #narrativemedicine
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We are SOLD OUT of in-person capacity for next week's #HumanitiesInMedicine lecture (ft. @[email protected]) but you can still register for the Zoom livestream! Free and open to all.
https://trentcenter.duke.edu/trent-humanities-medicine-lecture
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I wrote a hybrid essay for Nat. Brut. on my experience with osteoporosis, Madness, disorderly bodythings, and experiencing care. It's out today.
TW: med abuse/institutionalization, disordered eating/body talk at the link + in the photo.
#hybridessay
#creativenonfiction #literarymastodon #litodon @litodons #literarycommunity @neisvoid #transmadness #madodon #cripplepunk @cpunk #disabilitystudies #queercrip #disabilitymastodon #narrativemedicine -
Registration now live for the Duke #NarrativeMedicine winter series! Open to faculty and practicing clinicians of all stripes!
https://trentcenter.duke.edu/narrative-medicine-winter-series
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@offwhitecoat. #FindingtheRightWords is #narrativemedicine in action. I wasn't thinking about it like that at the time -- was too preoccupied learning as much as I could about #dementia and dealing with #grief that had been postponed for so long, but I must have had a hunch because while in NY for a #Melville conference, I was lucky enough to get to meet with #RitaCharon w/whom I take it you studied. Would love to read something of yours. What would be a good start for a #litstudies person?
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Hey #MedMastodon !
Interested in exploring #NarrativeMedicine and #MedicalHumanities ? Sign up for the last installment of the Fall Series, Dec 13 at 12:15pm Eastern. Dr. JD Ike will be presenting on #VisualThinkingStrategies.
(And stay tuned for our announcement for the winter/spring series!)
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@ct_bergstrom. Thank you for this excellent essay. I found #COVID threads by @WesElyMD especially valuable. Through the bird app, I also "met him," which was a thrill. Because of my interest in #medhum, #narrativemedicine, and #dementia, especially #Alzheimers, I'm trying to reconnect with some of the #doctors, #caregivers, and people with #dementia whom I was following. And of course, am finding new people to follow.