Good Storytellers Get Better Health Care—but Childhood Trauma Confuses the Narrative

Good Storytellers Get Better Health Care—but Childhood Trauma Confuses the Narrative
Being able to relate a story, as well as understand one, can have high stakes in a hospital when doctors need to understand a patient's condition. Stock-Asso/Shutterstock
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When describing their symptoms, medical history, and health changes at a clinic or hospital, every patient is the storyteller of their own health. Good storytellers tend to get better health care, but a history of childhood trauma plays havoc with telling your own story.

Consider Florence, as a (fictional) example:

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