Breaking Barriers in Rural India with Patient Centered Care and Shared Decision Making: Narrative Evidence Dealing with Clinical Complexity Abstract: In the following narrative, the authors delve into two cases, each centered on the management of a patient with a complicated health profile. In the first, the focus lies on the gaps in rural healthcare and the challenges a physician faces in addressing them. The second case focuses on a potential solution for the aforementioned challenges and explores the role of collaborative healthcare, supplemented with technological aids, which can assist in point-of-care solutions. Narrative – 1: The middle aged woman had been transported all the way from North Bengal (1500 km away) by her son with an intravenous bottle of saline to our ECHO room; that was the first time I saw her. She was in a drowsy stupor and her emaciated frame caught my attention, yet, I could not pass over the other patients to see her first. Pat...