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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler
Eric and I weren't sure what to call this podcast - storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today's guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. It wasn't until the end that the best term emerged - storycatching. Because that really is what this is about. Clinicians "catching" patient life stories.
What's in a story? Well, as we learned, everything. Our patients aren't "the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202," as Heather Coats astutely noted. They're people, and what makes us people if not our life's stories? Our loves, our…
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