Conversations Inviting Change: Narrative-Based Practice in Healthcare
John Launer, 14.11.23
An article about CIC and its use in Narrative-Based Practice for The Polyphany blog, from Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities. Read the article here.
Podcast: Using Narrative in Medical Practice
John Launer in conversation with Susanne Evans, 15.6.23
Susanne Evans is an organisational change consultant whose podcasts feature interviews with others using narrative-based approaches in their work. In this new Change Stories podcast she talks with John Launer about the use of stories and narrative inquiry in medical settings, including consultations with patients and bringing about change in healthcare organisations.
Launer, J. (2021), Against Diagnosis Postgraduate Medical Journal 2021;97:67-68.
Diagnosis lies at the heart of medicine and health care. But is it all that it’s cracked up to be? Sometimes a diagnosis can be turn out to be confusing, stigmatising, frightening – or just plain wrong. Doctors and other health professionals often work effectively without one anyway. A new article by John Launer entitled “Against diagnosis” seems to have struck a chord for professionals, and for many patients as well. Read article here in the PMJ/BMJ.
Miller, L. (2020), Remote Supervision in Primary Care during the Covid-19 pandemic - the “new normal”?
In this article, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lisa Miller draws attention to the affordances and caveats of relating digitally for the purposes of supervision in one to one and group settings, and to highlight some literature and key principles that might be helpful to educators faced with these challenges. Read the article here in Taylor&Francis online.
Launer, J. (2008)
Why don’t doctors pursue lifelong learning in their communication skills, just as they do with their scientific and technical skills? John Launer explains why it is of fundamental importance. Read the full text here.
Launer, J. (2009)
It is hard to exaggerate the influence that the study of narrative has now had in almost every academic field. In virtually every area of scholarship, the focus has moved from the study of facts to looking at how people weave these facts together into stories, and at how the stories themselves change as they are told and heard. Inevitably, such ideas have come to have a considerable influence in medicine as well. Read the full text here.
Launer, J. (2014)
In this article, John Launer discusses the importance of good questions, and how they can underpin any good consultation. Read the full text here.