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Narrative Matters
Narrative Matters is a section of Health Affairs that features personal stories about experiences with the health care system and the people in it, using the power of literary nonfiction to highlight an important public policy issue.
In today’s newsletter, we are revisiting some recent Narrative Matters essays and poems, featured in both the journal and our podcast series. Some of the topics covered in these essays include end-of-life care and care delivery.
In one essay from the June 2022 issue of Health Affairs, author Nora Osman Segar reflects on COVID-19 policies that restricted hospital visitors, and asks "What constitutes a 'good death'?"
During COVID-19, hospitals almost universally adopted visitor restrictions.
“These policies harm health care workers who recognize the importance of family at the bedside but who are asked to repeatedly to turn families away, increasing the already profound distress of providing care during this time,” Segar writes.
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the May 2022 issue, physician Jason Prior recounts feeling powerless without access to the tools he needed to help patients with entirely preventable conditions.
Desperate for a change, Prior moved to New Zealand in 2019 and began practicing medicine there, but found many of the same struggles among his colleagues abroad. “I realized that there are no perfect
systems,” he concludes.
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