An Interview with Rita Charon.

J Med Humanit

McGovern Medical School, 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.

Published: January 2025

This is an edited transcript of an interview with Rita Charon. Nathan Carlin conducted the interview in her apartment in New York City on October 18, 2024. They discussed a number of topics, including Charon's educational journey, her mentors, the founding of narrative medicine, the status of narrative medicine today as well as its future, the relationship between narrative medicine and literature and medicine, and the ethics of writing about patients.

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