Practicing narrative medicine to provide individualized care
Karen Fine, DVM, explains why she thinks the narrative medicine approach can improve the human-animal bond and doctor-client relationship
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Author and veterinarian, Karen Fine, DVM, discusses her work on narrative medicine and her memoirs. She and Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, share their experiences with providing personalized and individualized care.
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Karen Fine, DVM: Narrative medicine is a way to make medicine more personal sort of the way it used to be when we did go into people's homes, or as a practitioner, you knew community members really well. And now it's just more personalized, and this kind of takes it down to the individual instead of more generic medicine. It's not just a cat with diabetes, it's this cat with diabetes, and this client and their relationship, and how can you work with them in particular.
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