Narrative-Based Medicine: Potential, Pitfalls, and Practice.
By Vera Kalitzkus, PhD; Peter F Matthiessen, MD, PhD

With the evolution of “modern” medicine, narratives were increasingly neglected in favor of “facts and findings,” regarded as more scientific and objective. Now—through understanding the narrative structure of medical knowledge, and narrative-oriented, physician-patient relations—narratives from social science research and medical practice and patient encounters are a source of knowledge for evidence, beyond the gold standard of randomized controlled trials of evidence-based medicine. This is a systematic overview of narrative-based medicine—background, narrative genres, and application in theory, research, and medical practice.
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The Desert Doctor.
By Tom Debley

This is the first chapter from the new book published by The Permanente Press­—The Story of Dr Sidney R Garfield: The Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care—documenting the creation of Kaiser Permanente by cofounders Sidney Garfield and Henry J Kaiser. This biography, focuses, for the first time, on Sidney Garfield’s story and vision.
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