title: [Narration in clinical medicine: why and how?].
abstract: During the years of their medical schooling, physicians ought to be trained in narration. The health care organization as a whole should be encouraged to allow narration to play a role in everyday practice. Narration is an important means to bringing clinical medicine closer to the understanding and proper care of the patient and to observance of the related ethical principles.
authors.affiliation: Ordinario Fuori Ruolo di Clinica Medica, Seconda Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy. coltort@libero.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coltorti
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D033262:Narration; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations