Combining narrative and evidence in our care of the elderly … can we do it?

摘要

Thus, we lured people to our day conference at the Lister GP Postgraduate Centre in Edinburgh. A couple of participants complained later that not only had they been lured, they had been misled about the content of the day. They had wanted to learn about narrative-based medicine and, instead, they had been exposed to a potpourri of medical humanities, writing for health and narrative-based medicine. Fair comment. Narrative-based medicine can be a wide umbrella. What all of the interlinking perspectives share is the belief is that, ‘We do not “store” experience as data, like a computer: we story it’ (Richard Winter).