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Why Narrative Medicine Matters

Founded at Columbia University in the early 2000s, narrative medicine asserts that asking and responding to patient’s questions in a dignified, compassionate, and generous way requires a clinician to have not only have medical know-how, but narrative intelligence and dedicated training. 

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Med School, Later On: The Marie Elwood Story

Numbers from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) show that just 0.3 percent of enrolling medical students between 2000 and 2020 were aged 40 or older. Montana’s Marie Elwood was a 39-year-old mother of seven when she started. A University of Washington med school grad and new family medicine resident, this is the story of how she made it happen.

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