Every Patient is a Story: Healing through stories

The present paper attempts to highlight that literature encourages us to empathetically walk into patients shoes and experience the emotions of others in the most compassionate way. The stories uncover the conversations about illness in the voice of patients and tend to facilitate empathy and openness in discussing taboo diseases that are stigmatized by every society and culture in its own benefit. In the West, many initiatives are already processing to voice and validate the suffering and pain connected to illness and other disabilities. Illness compels the person to wrestle alone with sensitive emotions and fractured self. It forces the patients to always search for a medium by which they can articulate their illness experiences and the fear of an ever-widening horizon of immortality. Attending to the sufferings of illness is an act of challenge in itself. In fact, the future of health care lies within these bonded boundaries of the areas of Literature and Medicine that necessitates an interdisciplinary lens to foster understanding of illness from the patient's perspective.