WASHINGTON — There is no denying that cutting-edge equipment and pharmaceutical breakthroughs can help save lives — but so can a doctor trained in storytelling. Dr. Rita Charon is a Harvard-trained ...

A physician and literary scholar, Rita Charon helped develop the field of narrative medicine, which aims to strengthen clinical practice through recognizing, absorbing, and interpreting patients’ ...

The young woman in a hurry needed Dr. Rita Charon to sign a form so she could receive disability pay. As it turned out, the encounter would help change how Charon — and eventually hundreds of Charon’s ...

Rita Charon is a general internist and literary scholar at Columbia University who originated the field of narrative medicine and is Executive Director of Columbia’s Program in Narrative Medicine. She ...

Writing and humanities studies produce better physicians, Rita Charon argues, because doctors learn to coax hidden information from patients' complaints On a recent Wednesday, 10 members of New ...

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA) have chosen Rita Charon, MD, PhD, of Columbia University as the 2014 recipient of the Gene D. Cohen ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities announced Tuesday that Rita Charon (right), a pioneer in the field of narrative medicine, will deliver the 2018 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Being ...

Dr. Rita Charon, professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S), has been awarded a 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for her work ...