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Narrative and Medicine
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Humanity And MedicineFamily Medicine36-Year-old Dominican ManNarrative And IdentityHealth PsychologyNarrative RepresentationHealth CommunicationNarrative Studies (Narrative Psychology)Medical HistoryMedical AnthropologyLanguage StudiesBack PainNarrative TheoryNursingHumanitiesMedical EthicsNarrative Studies (Comparative Literature)Temporal CoursePatient EducationMedicine
A 36-year-old Dominican man with a chief symptom of back pain comes to see me for the first time. As his new internist, I tell him, I have to learn as much as I can about his health. Could he tell me whatever he thinks I should know about his situation? And then I do my best not to say a word, not to write in his chart, but to absorb all that he emits about his life and his health. I listen not only for the content of his narrative, but for its form — its temporal course, its . . .