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Their wordsI began to recognize what wiser clinicians had always intuited-if you wanted any hope of helping a patient navigate their illness, you needed to understand their story.
Their wordsPeople have always turned to the arts in moments of vulnerability.
Their wordsAs we face a clinical landscape ever more automated by algorithms and artificial intelligence, it is even more imperative that we in medicine train ourselves to understand the metaphors that patients harness as they attempt to convey their inner experience to us; otherwise we will fall short on the diagnosis.
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