Commentary by Patricia Stanley, M.B.A., M.A., Guest Faculty, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia Universitys College of Physicians and Surgeons; Clinical Coordinator, Masters in Narrative Medicine There is a short story, "The Shawl", by Louise Erdrich, which is about story and memory and the reworking of old stories into new ones to effect healing. (1)A story of a child being thrown to the wolves is transformed generations later into the child's heroic leap to save a family, the tribe, the p