The World

Narrative Medicine

We visited a group of OB/GYN residents taking a narrative medicine class to see how embracing fiction can improve patient care.

Medical students spend hours studying information on charts and graphs, but when was the last time they studied the meaning behind a good story? We visited a group of OB/GYN residents taking a narrative medicine class to see how embracing fiction can improve patient care.
(Originally aired: December 10, 2010)