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- Some patient narratives can be difficult to share and comprehend in fast-paced clinical settings, yet healthcare providers have a responsibility to engage with these stories.
- This engagement requires clinicians to be creative, attentive, and aware that emotions are part of the interaction between the patient and the provider.
- Utilizing art can help clinicians and trainees become more comfortable with complex and ambiguous patient narratives, allowing for deeper reflection on how to interpret and respond to patients' needs effectively.
Article Abstract
Some patients' stories can be hard to tell and hard to listen to, especially in pressured, time-pinched clinical environments. This difficulty, however, doesn't absolve clinicians from a duty to try to understand patients' stories, interpret their meanings, and respond with care. Such efforts require clinical creativity, full engagement, and the recognition that emotions and personal feelings leak into the space between storyteller and story listener. Art objects are complex bodies of information that can challenge clinicians and trainees to become more comfortable with messy narratives as well as with ethical and aesthetic ambiguity. By slowing down and observing art, trainees can reflect on how clinicians make sense of stories that contain information that appears random and lacks coherence-and, more importantly, how clinicians draw on these stories to respond to patients' needs.
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