“Reading is a Right,” that’s the idea at the heart of a pioneering partnership between Advocate Children’s Hospital (ACH) and Chicago-area suburban libraries.
When Tracie LaNier, a social worker in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Advocate Health, lost her brother, Clayton Henderson, 64, in an unexpected death earlier this year, support came from a source she hadn’t anticipated: the members of the hospital system’s Narrative Medicine program team.
Perpetually late to the game, I was watching The Crown on my laptop Friday night, the wonderful episode set in the summer of 1969, when astronauts landed on the moon. While the world gazed into the heavens, series creator Peter Morgan looked around here on Earth and asked, What does it all mean?
In another installment of the series Narrative Evolution, Emmett Furey explores narrative correlationism, the value of storytelling, and the cognitive processes behind how we experience and share narratives.
Self-administered narrative medicine produces a valuable currency of peace and clarity. Listen to Andre Lijoi, MD, read "For One Who Is Exhausted, a Blessing" by John O’Donohue, and read his essay.
