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xiaoxThe main point of the article is psychiatry and medicine need personal experience, storytelling and case vignette to enrich doctor’s diagnosis and judgement.
The main point of the article is psychiatry and medicine need personal experience, storytelling and case vignette to enrich doctor’s diagnosis and judgement.
The author share the experience, the ideas and reference to other research and examples. There are many studies that the author mentioned, also shows the perspective of these studies.
“I wrote about personality and how it might change on medication.”
“We need storytelling, to set us in the clinical moment, remind us of the variety of human experience and enrich our judgment.”
“In psychiatry — and the same is true throughout medicine — randomized trials are rarely large enough to provide guidance on their own.”
“It has been my hope that, while we wait for conclusive science, stories will preserve diversity in our theories of mind. “
The article not really address the public health inequities. However, Dr Kramer considered that combine the case vignette and storytelling can help doctor’s judgement, especially in the area of psychiatric.