Narrative-Based Medicine Lab

Featured Student and Alumni Work

"Intentions" by Sucheta Heble

“Intentions” is a piece touching on a personal experience, and my way of coping with a health journey. Read More

"Prepared to Win" by Hesam Noroozi

A short memoir in two sections. Reflections on events that took place at an annual national student sport event when I was a track and field team member and a medical student. Read More

"Conversations with A Fortunate Man" by Nick Pimlott

A creative reading delivered at our April 2024 Literary Evening with the NBM Lab. Read More

An Excerpt from Cancer Confidential by Charles Hayter

An excerpt from Chapter 15 of Cancer Confidential: Backstage Dramas in the Radiation Clinic (University of Toronto Press, 2022) read by Charles Hayter at our Literary Evening. Read More

Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: A New Book by Mike Barnes

An illness memoir and much more, Sleep is Now a Foreign Country seeks to break down the barriers between those diagnosed with mental illness and the broader community. Read More

Literature and Culture

• Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: A New Book by Mike Barnes
• A Conversation with Conor Mc Donnell
• Reflecting on Black History Month: A Conversation with Mireille Norris
• A Conversation with Upreet Dhaliwal
• Visual Storytelling through Editorial Medical Cartoons: Works by Hesam Noroozi

From the World of Narrative-Based Medicine

• “To help my chronic pain patients, I learned to write, and that helped me learn to listen” (The Globe & Mail)
• The Last Doctor Takes a Humane Approach to Assisted Dying (The Social)
• Q&A Interview with UTP Author Charles Hayter (University of Toronto Press Blog)
• The Big Idea: Why Modern Medicine Can’t Work Without Stories (The Guardian)
• Why Storytelling is Part of Being a Good Doctor (The New Yorker)