Narrative Medicine as complementary to Evidence Based Practice. In their commentary, Meisel and Karlawish discuss the use of counternarratives in public health efforts to sway public opinion away from popular anecdotes and toward evidence – based science. What is a counternarrative? Describe an experience from work or from your life in which you might use a counternarrative to reinforce the validity of data. Rita Charon. Narrative Medicine. Charon describes Narrative Medicine as “the means to understand the personal”, “to engage in “discourse with the society, and “to kindle an