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ArticleAnnals of family medicine2018

A Narrative Approach to Healing Chronic Illness.

Thomas R Egnew

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Article in Annals of family medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Thomas R EgnewDepartment of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington tegnew@uw.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many clinicians may feel poorly prepared to manage patient suffering resulting from the travails of chronic illness. This essay explores the thesis that chronically and terminally ill patients can be holistically healed by transcending the suffering occasioned by the degradations of their illnesses. Suffering is conveyed as a story and clinicians can encourage healing by co-constructing patients' illness stories. By addressing the inevitable existential conflicts uncovered in patients' narratives and helping them edit their stories to promote acceptance and meaning, suffering can be transcended. This requires that clinicians be skilled in narrative medicine and open to engaging the patient's existential concerns. By helping patients transcend their suffering, clinicians claim their heritage as healers.

Indexed as

Holistic HealthNarrative MedicineAttitude to HealthChronic DiseaseHumansPhysician-Patient Relationschronic diseasephysician-patient relationspsychologicalstresssuffering

Identifiers

PMID29531109
PMCPMC5847356

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