From Doctors’ Stories to Doctors’ Stories, and Back Again

This AMA Journal of Ethics article highlights the importance of stories in medicine and the historical and contemporary role of biosciences, business-mindset, and data-drive in eclipsing the presence of narrative in the field. Doctors’ Stories by Kathryn Montgomery explains how narratives have revealed new possibilities for conception and characterization of medicine. In medicine, stories continue to enhance reflection, ethical awareness, and resilience, enabling physicians to maintain humanistic and ethical understandings of patient care and their role as healers even as they practice in systematized settings and employ evidence-based expertise.

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