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AI, Essays, Medical Humanities, Patient-Physician Relationship

AI and the Future of the Patient Narrative: The Rise of (a)iRecord

When Efficiency Trumped Narrative Here’s an odd thing about modern medicine: We have perfected the art of medical storytelling for over 4,000 years but have spent the last few decades systematically destroying it. Doctors have always been storytellers first, from ancient Egyptian scrolls to medieval Islamic physicians carefully documenting case histories. Until we decided efficiency mattered more than narrative. Today, we stand at another pivotal … Continue reading AI and the Future of the Patient Narrative: The Rise of (a)iRecord

Unknown's avatarMarcin Chwistek, MD
Medical Humanities, Patient-Physician Relationship

Restoring the Clinical Note

A few years back, Abraham Verghese wrote “Physician as Storyteller” where he told a story of a patient of his who underwent a discectomy complicated by a rare infection at the side of the surgery. Verghese wrote a case report detailing the clinical situation which he later shared with the patient who was elated to be “a rare case.” Until he read the report: “Abraham, … Continue reading Restoring the Clinical Note

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