English professor urges pain doctors to improve narrative skills
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 23:00
in Health & Medicine
What does an English professor have to say to a group of pain management specialists? Plenty. Noted writer, teacher and scholar, David Morris, PhD, addressed a plenary session of the American Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting here and urged his audience to become proficient at using narrative skills. He emphasised that narrative skills should be learned just like other medical abilities, and outcomes from an unskilled approach to narrative can adversely impact both pain treatment and research...