June 11, 2010
A lot of attention is given to patient stories. Most online health sites have a link to patient stories. Why? Often because the stories make content more ‘real’ than numbers and statistics alone do.
When we tell our stories, we can describe how we feel, what matters in our life, things about family, what kinds of things we do for fun, and how we earn a living. Implicitly, we talk about these things because we value our good health, and being healthy comprises one important goal. But being healthy often needs to be adapted to our family, recreational, and occupational lives. And so, we talk about these topics, implicitly hoping for conversation about how to adapt to possible health risks while sustaining these other areas of our lives…
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