“How Can They Act Like That?”: Clinicians and Patients as Characters in Each Other's Stories

Hastings Center Report 32 (6):14-22 (2002)
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Abstract

When clinician‐patient relationships go wrong, the problem may not be merely that one person is knowingly mistreating the other. More likely, they are caught up in different stories, and animated by different moral visions. The task is for each to see the point of the other's story.

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