Rita Charon writes in her book Narrative Medicine, Honoring the Stories of Illness (2006):

"To know what patients endure at the hands of illness and therefore to be of clinical help requires that doctors enter the worlds of their patients, if only imaginatively, and to see and interpret these worlds from the patient’s point of view. […]"


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