A new approach to healing is evolving, one that combines high-tech medicine with high-touch arts. In an article in the Washington Post on April 8, Carol Strickland wrote that “the approach is based on the assumption that incorporating music, visual art, writing and performance into clinical care can increase feelings of well-being and even improve health.” She said the “growing belief in the healing value of the arts was on display [in March] at a symposium at New York’s Museum of Modern Art titled ‘The Value and Importance of the Arts in Health Care.’ ” “Participants — physicians, hospital administrators and artists — were as upbeat as if they were promoting a miracle drug. Integrating the arts into health care is in vogue,” said Dr. Leonard Shlain, a laparoscopic surgeon in San Francisco, “because it works.” A survey cited in the article said that more than half of the 2,500 hospitals in the United States offered arts-based programs in 2006.
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