Implementing Narrative Medicine. Yes, we should do it. Yes, it’s going to be difficult to change the healthcare system. No, It won’t be hard to make some small improvements over time.
Ideas are okay. Ideologies are better. Make the ideology of the doctor to listen to the patients. How would we do that? Well. Good question. We could, have more medical classes implemented into the curriculum that have to do with story listening. This has been said a lot of time by classmates, think deeper. We could have story classes embedded in our culture. How would we do that? Bring back the family and community dynamics. How would we do that? Interventions. What type of interventions? This is hard to think of on the fly. Intervention: name a few crazy ones at least, get the juices flowing: We could tell police to become more ingrained as the good guys, we could understand which crimes are serious and which crimes are not, we could stop having a bias in our society. This is too big of a scale, not going to happen for a while. Think of little interventions to help the family and community dynamic. Siesta, like in Spain, but instead an hour of time for family. This could be a valuable idea. But how do you get a whole country to do this. Give med students more down time to spend with family. Give them an hour where they go and have lunch with fellow students, a mutual lunch time. Give them time to eat with their professors, get life advice from them. That would be simple, easy to do. Get life advice about medicine from one on one interactions with professors. Only have professors who are very very practical and understand the idea that I am getting at. We need to focus on getting a general idea in society back to caring about one another.
