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Dr. Rita Charon, founder of the narrative medicine program at Columbia University, neatly summarized her own approach to a patient’s story in a 2004 lecture.

The suicide rate for people between the ages of 45 and 64 has jumped in recent years, more than for other age groups, said Barbara Stanley, a psychology professor at Columbia University.

"This is an extremely important paper," says Dr. Ethel Siris, a Columbia University medical professor who specializes in thinning bones and wasn't involved in the study.