Narrative Medicine with Kayla Branstetter
About this episode
The episode features a discussion on narrative medicine with Kayla Branstetter, focusing on storytelling and its impact on patient care.
In today's episode, host Augustine sits down with Kayla Branstetter — English instructor, TEDx speaker, doctoral candidate in healthcare education, and author of the forthcoming book Don't Be an Athena — for a conversation that sits right at the intersection of storytelling, reproductive trauma, and the future of patient-centered care. Kayla's work in narrative medicine is a beautiful reminder that behind every chart, every lab result, and every clinical encounter is a human being with a story that deserves to be heard. And for midwives and birth workers who already know this in their bones — this episode gives you the language, the research, and the tools to do it even better. In this episode we cover: What narrative medicine actually is — and why it's been around for centuries, we're just now naming it Kayla's personal journey through her mother's teen pregnancy, her own infertility and miscarriage, and how storytelling found her How a patient's chart tells a story — and what we miss when we only look at the numbers The growing mistrust between the medical community and patients — and what narrative medicine offers as a bridge How providers can support traumatized clients after…
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