Proud Writing Minor, Med Bio Major, Lacrosse Goalie, and your Future Doctor
1) What is one powerful aspect of Narrative Medicine that you will take away from this course? How do you see yourself using this information in the future? From this class I learned that Narrative Medicine is an extremely powerful tool used to efficiently heal. This art of healing has many powerful aspects, however, …
In Rita Charon’s writing, she explains how she utilizes the practice of writing Parallel Charts as a way to implement Narrative Medicine in practice. For this exercise, she explains to her students to write the regular chart of the patient, but to also write a second chart about their emotions throughout the patient experience. She …
To emotionally cope with a tragedy or an illness, I believe a lot of people fall under bad habits. As the Safe Space podcast had said, even years after a tragedy in their life, people indirectly cope with their emotions by succumbing to alcoholism, overeating, and smoking upon many other bad behaviors. Sometimes, people don’t …
In Pennebaker’s essay “Telling Stories: The Health Benefits of Narrative” , he writes of many benefits that narratives have to healing. He first describes of a study that he had done in which he asked a population to write their “deepest thoughts and feelings about the most traumatic experience of your entire life”(4). He then …
On the podcast, the Art Frank was talking about his experience in the hospital and how he told his story many times. He described that the more he told his story, the more he found someone that was able to understand his story, and that his story – telling his story out loud to others …
The television in my room was on but I paid no attention to it. I was laying in my bed too busy telling myself that I felt fine. My head pounded a constant rhythmic beat that I couldn’t ignore. My eyelids felt like a million pounds. As each second went by I felt myself fade …
The way Gawande delivered this piece as a story in his life made this such a good read. His accounts were emotional, intriguing, and intense at times which helped deliver his message. One quote throughout the piece stuck with me. He said “This is, in the main, uncertainty at work, with the varying experience, habits, …
Hilfiker, in his writing, explored mistakes from his own point of view; the doctor’s point of view. He tells about the immense pressure that he undergoes as a doctor, and how “perfect” the role is expected to be in the eyes of society. He says: “But if we are unable to deal openly with those …
The wheels on the wheelchair only stops during meals. However, on any other part of the day, the wheels, at a constant slow rate, go around and around. The Man, who occupies this chair, makes the constant turning of the wheels his job. The Man gets up early, places himself in the wheelchair, and begins …
Even though Moore’s writing was concerning a very hard subject: a Mother’s child with cancer, I found that she had an even balance of emotions within her piece. At times, the story went into dark places, like when the Doctor was first sharing the news of the cancerous tumor, and the Mother’s first reactions with …
