Narrative Matters: Writing to Change the Health Care System

Author:   Jessica Bylander ,  Abraham Verghese
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   second edition
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Pages:   328
Publication Date:   28 April 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jessica Bylander ,  Abraham Verghese
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   second edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781421437545


ISBN 10:   1421437546
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   28 April 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Narrative Matters shows how health care policies affect real people. Policy loves charts and statistics. These stories fill in the conflicts, the emotions, the frequent pain and occasional joys of being somewhere on one of those charts. Numbers make no moral demands on us; only faces require a response. In these stories, we see the faces that health care policy is all about. --Arthur W. Frank, PhD, University of Calgary, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics Narrative Matters showcases some of health care's most stunning writing. The stories are moving, eloquent, and often unforgettable. --Atul Gawande, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End A doctor kneels on a highway and watches a child die from a completely preventable accident, as the boy's father wails, 'Wake up, my son!' A baby dies because of language barriers and bureaucracy in the clinic. A nurse quits in despair, stopped by the system from doing the right thing. A governor makes a wrenching choice between a world-class transplant program and basic care for 600,000 people. If these true stories of needless tragedy don't convince you our health care system is broken, you must have a heart of stone. --Melvin J. Konner, PhD, MD, Emory University, author of Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School For any reader enthralled by the literature of medicine, these fascinating, compelling, and beautifully written doctor stories were written expressly for you. --Howard Markel, MD, PhD, The University of Michigan Medical School, author of When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed Narrative does matter. That's why these writers are so successful in making the reader feel and respond to their frustration, anger, pain, sadness, confusion, joy, or loving kindness by writing personal narratives of health care. Had they addressed us on a purely intellectual level, we might have developed a clearer idea about how to create a more equitable health care system, but we'd have less motivation, less passion, for the task. Narrative Matters is a splendid achievement. This wonderful collection will make a big difference in the way the reader thinks about many of the important issues facing health care today. I suspect this book will do a great deal to enhance public awareness of the human stories at the center of our US health care system. --Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, coeditor of Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians This compilation is unique . . . because of its strong relevance to today's health policy . . . These narratives matter. --JAMA This volume is relevant to researchers, clinicians, and health care policy makers, and I recommend it highly. --American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy To begin to understand the many challenges facing the US health care system, you could spend years in the shadow of doctors, patients, medical students, and legislators. Or you could just read this book. Narrative Matters opens a window into what's happening in American medicine through the minds and pens of those in the middle of it all. At times insightful, depressing, uplifting, and direct, Narrative Matters accomplishes a rare feat--a book as well-written as it is necessary. --Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, author of The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times Very helpful . . . An essential library volume. --Journal of Immigrant Minority Health


Narrative Matters shows how health care policies affect real people. Policy loves charts and statistics. These stories fill in the conflicts, the emotions, the frequent pain and occasional joys of being somewhere on one of those charts. Numbers make no moral demands on us; only faces require a response. In these stories, we see the faces that health care policy is all about. --Arthur W. Frank, PhD, University of Calgary, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics Narrative does matter. That's why these writers are so successful in making the reader feel and respond to their frustration, anger, pain, sadness, confusion, joy, or loving kindness by writing personal narratives of health care. Had they addressed us on a purely intellectual level, we might have developed a clearer idea about how to create a more equitable health care system, but we'd have less motivation, less passion, for the task. Narrative Matters is a splendid achievement. This wonderful collection will make a big difference in the way the reader thinks about many of the important issues facing health care today. I suspect this book will do a great deal to enhance public awareness of the human stories at the center of our US health care system. --Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, coeditor of Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians To begin to understand the many challenges facing the US health care system, you could spend years in the shadow of doctors, patients, medical students, and legislators. Or you could just read this book. Narrative Matters opens a window into what's happening in American medicine through the minds and pens of those in the middle of it all. At times insightful, depressing, uplifting, and direct, Narrative Matters accomplishes a rare feat--a book as well-written as it is necessary. --Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, author of The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times Very helpful... An essential library volume. --Journal of Immigrant Minority Health A doctor kneels on a highway and watches a child die from a completely preventable accident, as the boy's father wails, 'Wake up, my son!' A baby dies because of language barriers and bureaucracy in the clinic. A nurse quits in despair, stopped by the system from doing the right thing. A governor makes a wrenching choice between a world-class transplant program and basic care for 600,000 people. If these true stories of needless tragedy don't convince you our health care system is broken, you must have a heart of stone. --Melvin J. Konner, PhD, MD, Emory University, author of Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School For any reader enthralled by the literature of medicine, these fascinating, compelling, and beautifully written doctor stories were written expressly for you. --Howard Markel, MD, PhD, The University of Michigan Medical School, author of When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed Narrative Matters showcases some of health care's most stunning writing. The stories are moving, eloquent, and often unforgettable. --Atul Gawande, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End This volume is relevant to researchers, clinicians, and health care policy makers, and I recommend it highly. --American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy This compilation is unique... because of its strong relevance to today's health policy... These narratives matter. --JAMA


Narrative Matters shows how health care policies affect real people. Policy loves charts and statistics. These stories fill in the conflicts, the emotions, the frequent pain and occasional joys of being somewhere on one of those charts. Numbers make no moral demands on us; only faces require a response. In these stories, we see the faces that health care policy is all about. --Arthur W. Frank, PhD, University of Calgary, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics A doctor kneels on a highway and watches a child die from a completely preventable accident, as the boy's father wails, 'Wake up, my son!' A baby dies because of language barriers and bureaucracy in the clinic. A nurse quits in despair, stopped by the system from doing the right thing. A governor makes a wrenching choice between a world-class transplant program and basic care for 600,000 people. If these true stories of needless tragedy don't convince you our health care system is broken, you must have a heart of stone. --Melvin J. Konner, PhD, MD, Emory University, author of Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School Narrative does matter. That's why these writers are so successful in making the reader feel and respond to their frustration, anger, pain, sadness, confusion, joy, or loving kindness by writing personal narratives of health care. Had they addressed us on a purely intellectual level, we might have developed a clearer idea about how to create a more equitable health care system, but we'd have less motivation, less passion, for the task. Narrative Matters is a splendid achievement. This wonderful collection will make a big difference in the way the reader thinks about many of the important issues facing health care today. I suspect this book will do a great deal to enhance public awareness of the human stories at the center of our US health care system. --Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, coeditor of Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians For any reader enthralled by the literature of medicine, these fascinating, compelling, and beautifully written doctor stories were written expressly for you. --Howard Markel, MD, PhD, The University of Michigan Medical School, author of When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed Narrative Matters showcases some of health care's most stunning writing. The stories are moving, eloquent, and often unforgettable. --Atul Gawande, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End To begin to understand the many challenges facing the US health care system, you could spend years in the shadow of doctors, patients, medical students, and legislators. Or you could just read this book. Narrative Matters opens a window into what's happening in American medicine through the minds and pens of those in the middle of it all. At times insightful, depressing, uplifting, and direct, Narrative Matters accomplishes a rare feat--a book as well-written as it is necessary. --Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, author of The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times This volume is relevant to researchers, clinicians, and health care policy makers, and I recommend it highly. --American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Very helpful... An essential library volume. --Journal of Immigrant Minority Health This compilation is unique... because of its strong relevance to today's health policy... These narratives matter. --JAMA


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Jessica Bylander is a senior editor at Health Affairs and the editor of ""Narrative Matters.""

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