Narrative Medicine Benefits

For years the easy way for patients to be treated by doctors was just by being very passive about their chronic illnesses, not because doctors wanted to, but because there was no other efficient way to approach it. Today, according to Vera Kalitzkus and Peter F Matthiessen in their article "Narrative-Based Medicine: Potential, Pitfalls, and Practices", "with the evolution of “modern” medicine, narratives were increasingly neglected in favor of “facts and findings,” which were regarded as more scientific and objective", medicine has shifted towards using tests as a sole way to diagnose patients, which overall is extremely limiting. As a result, narrative medicine, a fairly new or revived concept has developed. Narrative medicine is the idea that doctors listen and focus more to what the patients have to say, and less on all of the tests that doctors can perform.
If doctors take a more holistic approach while diagnosing and treating their patients, the patients should feel more comfortable about their illness and how to cope with it on a daily basis, not letting it take over their lives in a negative