The clinician’s narrative and the patient’s narrative are ontologically equivalent

The clinician’s narrative and the patient’s narrative are ontologically equivalent

Yuya Yokota is a GP and Assistant Professor in the Department of General Medicine at the Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Okayama University, Japan. He is on X: @Yokota_general The clinical setting of general practice is a space of complex human experiences, where the pursuit of biomedical facts alone is insufficient. In this environment, the medical imperatives of diagnosis and treatment are deeply intertwin…