• Shane Neilson.
• Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Waterloo Regional Campus, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• J Eval Clin Pract. 2024 Aug 1; 30 (5): 741748741-748.

BackgroundNarrative Medicine (NM) and Indigenous Story Medicine both use narrative to understand and effect health, but their respective conceptualizations of narrative differ.AimsI contrast the concept of narrative in NM with that of Indigenous Story Medicine.Materials And MethodsThe article relies Western narrative theorists as well as Indigenous epistemologists to frame a discussion-by-contrast of the Judeo-Christian creation myth with a Haundenosaunee Creation Story.ResultsI demonstrate that the deficiencies of Narrative Medicine exist because the latter's use of narrative is a mere application in an otherwise reductive field, whereas Indigenous epistemologies rely on story as medicine itself.DiscussionOMIT.ConclusionI call for more scholars to take up different narratives to further investigate the ethical space between NM and Indigenous Story Medicine.© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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