It is a movement that intends to rehumanize medicine: moving, interpreting and absorbing the stories of patients' illnesses (Johna). Both the doctor and the patient can benefit from storytelling. Patients find it therapeutic as their words give shape to the chaos of their illness and doctors benefit from their patients' words by understanding their patients on a whole new level. Dr. Nuilla, who currently teaches Medical Humanities at Baylor College of Medicine, comments that "telling stories and writing in medical school helps you become a more humanistic doctor," and adds that when he was in medical school he never took any courses . humanities courses, but finds that it could have been useful to him in his early years as a doctor. As narrative medicine becomes increasingly popular, more and more healthcare professionals and patients are realizing the importance of telling illness stories (). Charon). Healthcare professionals now recognize that diagnosing a patient is not just about telling the symptoms of their illness but can be made by understanding and listening to the person tell their narratives to help doctors understand what they and their patients experience as they go through a certain disease, medical educators are now paying attention to narrative competence or