Month: January 2018

As we explore both scholarly articles and literature this semester, it is important to focus on your “close reading” skills. Here are some tips for close reading: Read with a pencil or pen in hand and annotate the text as you go Look for text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections Recognize patterns (repetition, contradiction, similarities, symbols, … [Read more…]

Welcome to Narrative Medicine & Writing! The author, teacher, and physician Danielle Ofri explains in an interview for the New England Journal of Medicine, “More than those things we’ve seen in text books and lectures, we remember the patients we’ve seen and their stories.” Simply by the nature of the job, healthcare workers are allowed … [Read more…]