Storytelling essential to quality care is getting lost in the digital age
The patient’s story is the core of medicine and essential for accurate diagnoses and therapeutic relationships, but it's falling by the wayside, according to Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP, a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Writing in the New York Times, Khullar says he often finds "medical charts are littered with inaccuracies."
Storytelling needs to be mandatory in the digital age, he says. Read more:
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