TY - BOOK AU - Robertson, Colin AU - Clegg, Gareth TI - Storytelling in medicine: how narrative can improve practice SN - 9781785231377 PY - 2017/// CY - Boca Raton, FL PB - CRC Press N1 - Monograph; xvi, 198p. : 22cm N2 - <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">This book is a unique, practical book for healthcare trainees, practitioners and educators that explores the ideas and practice of narrative and storytelling that lie at the very heart of clinical medicine and the patient ‘experience’ of care. It shows how story and narrative can be used effectively to help convey concepts such as prognosis and the effect of illness upon life, and to prepare patients and their relatives for difficult and painful news.</span></p> &nbsp ER -