Ben is an MD, a cartoonist for the New Yorker, and a lecturer at Columbia University. We met up with him at this year's UK Cystic Fibrosis Conference to find out about the importance of storytelling in healthcare, and why it's vital to stop and think about the people you're working with, rather than just their condition or symptoms.
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Watch as Ben crafts a brilliant cartoon on personalised medicine just for us, below. Want to find out more? There's an exclusive video interview with Ben where he explains narrative medicine and why communication is a key part of the important relationship between clinicians and people with cystic fibrosis. Use the buttons at the bottom of this page to register or log in to watch it now!