"This second edition features a new collection of thirty-two essays previously published in the Narrative Matters section of the journal Health Affairs in recent years. As in the first edition, the essays are divided into topical areas such as the doctor-patient relationship, health care delivery and reform, care for aging patients, and the opioid crisis. The book could be adopted for courses on medical humanities or narrative medicine. The essays are written by some of the leading popular writers in health care today"--