Healing, the Patient Narrative-Story and the Medical Practitioner: A Relationship to Enhance Care for the Chronically Ill Patient

Patient–health care practitioner communication is riddled with complexities. In this article the authors initially describe how careful listening to another, the patient, within the context of today's health care system has drifted from being an integral part of the “art” of medicine toward a m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richard Hovey, Jim Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2007-12-01
Series:International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690700600404