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Cureus
August 2025
Department of Teaching and Research, The Second People's Hospital of Wuhu, Wuhu Hospital Affiliated to East China Normal University, Wuhu, CHN.
Narrative medicine is defined as a medical approach that utilizes the power of stories, both patients' illness narratives and healthcare providers' reflective accounts, to promote healing, foster empathy, and enhance the therapeutic relationship through close attention to the language, metaphor, and meaning embedded in illness experiences. Despite its growing importance in contemporary healthcare, comprehensive bibliometric analyses of narrative medicine research trends remain limited. This study aims to systematically map global research patterns, identify key contributors, and analyze thematic evolution in narrative medicine literature over the past two decades.
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September 2025
Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Peninsula Health, Frankston, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Monash Anaesthetic Allergy Service, Monash Health and Peninsula Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Understanding the experiences of individuals using the health system is crucial to be able to explain future treatments and address concerns. This is especially true after a life-threatening event. True informed consent is impossible without a good degree of empathy with patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Aesthet Dermatol
January 2025
Ms. Caldwell is with Dermatology Partners in Warrensburg, Missouri.
Background: Actinic keratosis (AK) is a common dermatologic condition that can progress to squamous cell carcinoma if left untreated. Field therapy plays a critical role in managing both visible and subclinical lesions within sun-damaged skin.
Objective: The author sought to provide one nurse practitioner's perspective on the evolving role of field therapy in AK management, emphasizing patient-centered care, real-world challenges for all advanced practice providers (APPs), and personal experience.
J Patient Exp
August 2025
NTM Patient Care UK, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, Royal Free Hospital, Pond, London, UK.
Nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease (NTM-LD) is a chronic infection with increasing global incidence, which primarily affects individuals with preexisting lung conditions such as bronchiectasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Despite the availability of clinical guidelines and newly published Standards of Care, variability in healthcare professionals' (HCPs) familiarity with NTM-LD results in delayed diagnoses, inconsistent care, and suboptimal patient outcomes. Based on our own experiences as NTM-LD patients, we highlight key issues in the management of NTM-LD, including diagnostic inefficiencies, variable access to specialized care, mixed experience of empathy, and insufficient information provision.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Med (Lausanne)
July 2025
Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences (MSBS) Program, Rocky Vista University, Englewood, CO, United States.
Purpose: To determine whether prospective medical students' attitudes toward readings and service-learning for a Medical Humanities course predict their perceived impact of the course on their critical reflection and empathy for their peers.
Methods: Following a Medical Humanities course, students completed surveys concerning their attitudes toward team-based service-learning and readings required for the course. And they completed surveys designed to measure their empathy for one another and thoughts and feelings about the course (e.