Charon & Harter

Question 1

Health care would be impossible if not for our human capacity to order and embody
lived experience in narrative form.

Answer 1

Harter’s article was about how narrative medicine involves storytelling and allowing the doctors to be part of the patients story

Question 2

“Interactions first, paperwork last”

Answer 2

a belief that “patients and families are more capable of coping and much more motivated and resilient than traditionally perceived by health care providers”

Question 3

The emergence of narrative medicine as co-constructed by healthcare seekers and
providers signifies hopeful changes in the experience and enactment of health care

Answer 3

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