Narrative Medicine: A Guidebook to Transforming Hearts and Minds

Healthcare workers face immense suffering daily, witnessing patients at their most vulnerable. This book bridges the gap in narrative medicine access, offering practical exercises to enhance compassion and self-reflection, reduce burnout and improve care. Inclusive and accessible, it amplifies often-overlooked voices.

Julia Michie Bruckner, MD
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado
Julia Michie Bruckner is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with interests in medical humanities and narrative medicine. She serves as an attending pediatrician and Director of Faculty Wellbeing for the Section of Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She has published creative nonfiction essays in JAMA, Academic Medicine, Academic Pediatrics, Narratively, KevinMD and Doximity. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Bellevue Literary Review Felice Buckvar Prize in Nonfiction.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0392-1273

Anjali Dhurandhar, MD
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado
Anjali Dhurandhar is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and serves as Associate Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. She is a general internist who has a focus on chronic pain. She has conducted writing workshops for the past 25 years and has edited numerous works.

Eve Makoff, MD, MS, MA
MyPlace Health
Los Angeles, California
Eve Makoff is regional medical officer at MyPlace Health, a program for low-income, chronically Ill, elderly patients. Her recent publications and research in narrative medicine appear in Narrative and Palliative Medicine Reports. Her creative writing has appeared in JPM, JPSM, CMAJ, PULSE, J Emergency Med, J Clinical Bioethics, The Perfect Doctor, and OnlySky. She facilitates narrative medicine workshops. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0967-7168