Dr. Rita Charon on narrative #medicine: "The idea of being a close reader — looking at every word, seeing how many different meanings you can get from a sentence, & examining the nuances — was exciting to me. So I started trying to use that same rigor in listening to my patients. Rather than starting with, “I see you’re 47 years old & you haven’t had a mammogram,” it became, “Please tell me what you think I should know about your situation in order to treat you.”

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-breakthroughs/learning-to-listen/