Seeking truth through narration:insight into medical humanity needs / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

"Seeking truth through narration" means that the doctor listens to the story which the patient tells about the disease, then classifies and integrates the story to obtain the patient's comprehensive and multi-dimensional information about "body, psychology and spirit", "the whole life" and "the whole environment". These help the doctor to analyze the subjective and objective causes for the occurrence and development of the disease, and to find the sufferings on the patient's body, mind, spirit and social adapta-tion so as to provide personalized treatment and care programs for the patient."The whole life"includes the patient's past, present condition and recovering expectation about the diseases. "The whole environment"mostly indicates the patient's circumstance, such residence, working/studying environment, as well as family, education, cultural and economic background. "Body, psychology and soul" are about physical, psychologi-cal and spiritual sufferings. The doctor exams all the above to have a whole picture about the patient and effectively to provide personalized treatment programs.