"How can they act like that?" Clinicians and patients as characters in each other's stories.: An article from: The Hastings Center Report

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From the author: When clinician-patient relationships go wrong, the problem may not be merely that one person is knowingly mistreating the other. More likely, they are caught up in different stories, and animated by different moral visions. The first task in working toward a better relationship is for each to see the point of the other's story and grasp the other's vision. The task lies more heavily on the clinician because of the vulnerability of the patient.

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Title: "How can they act like that?" Clinicians and patients as characters in each other's stories.
Author: Arthur W. Frank
Publication:The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2002
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: 32 Issue: 6 Page: 14(10)

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