The articles below describe various uses of storytelling and medicine, including:

• Kaiser Permanente, the largest health maintenance organization in the U.S., using storytelling as part of its long-range growth plan

• a physician and professor from College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, reporting how storytelling improves medical education, patient care and the nurturing of health care professionals

• a program in Montreal's multiethnic schools where storytelling is helping heal migrant and refugee children from war-torn countries

1. Learning to Listen The New York Times (New York, NY), December 29, 2009

2. Social Media Experience at Mayo Clinic Fast Forward the Blog, January 27, 2009

3. Stories in the Service of Making a Better Doctor The New York Times (New York, NY), October 24, 2008

4. Once Upon a Time There was a Sickness ABC Online (Australia), April 17, 2008

5. Health Department Hopes Personal Stories will Inspire Change Daily Herald (Provo, UT), March 26, 2008

6. Storytelling Can Make a Difference in Conflict The Times of India (New Delhi, India), October 1, 2007

7. Storytellers Tackle Modern Woes with Old Tales Reuters.uk (UK), May 24, 2007

8. Literature as Path Toward Understanding Illness Web Weekly: News from the Harvard Medical Community (Cambridge, MA), September 26, 2005

9. NYU Workshops Address Storytelling in Law and Medicine New York Sun (New York, NY), January 4, 2005

10. Storytelling Known for Healing Nature Billings Gazette (Billings, MT), December 8, 2004

11. Storyteller Shows Health Officials a New Way to Communicate with Alaskans Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, Alaska), December 7, 2004

12. Teaching Through Stories: Televised Play Brings Cancer Information to Native Alaskans Capital City Weekly (Juneau, Alaska), August 24, 2004

13. Tall Tales Told at Civic Center Arizona Sentinel, August, 2004

14. Across the Land, Plots are Thickening LA Times, July 29, 2004

15. The Power Of Design; IDEO Redefined Good Design By Creating Experiences, Not Just Products Business Week, May 17, 2004

16. Narrative and Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine, February 26, 2004

17. Creative Expression Workshops for Immigrant and Refugee Children Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, February, 2004

18. Learning From Stories--a Pathway to Patient Safety Association of Operating Room Nurses Journal, January, 2004

19. Diagnosis Goes Low Tech The New York Times, October 11, 2003

20. Even in a High-Tech World, Storytellers Can Still Spin a Good Yarn Chicago Tribune Online Edition, July, 2003

For more information about the uses of storytelling in medicine and healing, see The Healing Story Alliance, a Special Interest Group of the National Storytelling Network.

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