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Default Creative writing may make doctors better

Found this through Yahoo News

...Many residency programs have support groups where young doctors can discuss their concerns, lead study author Dr. Anna Reisman noted in an interview. However, the process of writing a narrative may help residents examine their experiences in a more thoughtful way, according to Reisman, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine

Focusing on the craft of writing, in other words, provides a means of increasing one's powers of observation and improving one's understanding of ...both self and others," she and her colleagues write in the Journal of General of Internal Medicine...


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...In focus groups held after the workshop, residents said that writing helped them process their own emotions and better understand those of their patients. Their stories' themes included their own insecurity and feelings of powerlessness, breaking bad news, burnout and awareness of "how little physicians know their patients."...


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