Recognizing and Maximizing the Nexus of Perioperative Medicine and Narrative Medicine
Recognizing and Maximizing the Nexus of Perioperative Medicine and Narrative Medicine
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认识并最大化围手术期医学和叙事医学的联系
DOI:
10.1213/ane.0000000000006323
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
T. Vetter
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作者:
T. Vetter
Perioperative medicine remains an evolving, interdisciplinary subspecialty, which encompasses the unique perspectives and incorporates the respective vital expertise of numerous stakeholders. This integrated model of perioperative medicine and care has a wide-ranging set of clinical, strategic, and operational goals. Among these various programmatic goals, a subset of 4, specific, interdependent goals include (1) enhancing patient-centered care, (2) embracing shared decision-making, (3) optimizing health literacy, and (4) avoiding futile surgery. Achieving and sustaining this subset of 4 goals requires continued innovative approaches to perioperative care. The burgeoning field of narrative medicine represents 1 such innovative approach to perioperative care. Narrative medicine is considered the most prominent recent development in the medical humanities. Its central tenet is that attention to narrative—in the form of the patient’s story, the clinician’s story, or a story constructed together by the patient and clinician—is essential for optimal patient care. If we can view the health care experience through the patient’s eyes, we will become more responsive to patients’ needs and, thereby, better clinicians. There is a potential clinical nexus between the perioperative medicine practice and narrative medicine skills, which, if capitalized, can maximize perioperative patient care. There are a number of untapped educational and research opportunities in this fruitful nexus between perioperative medicine and narrative medicine.