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"The Healing Muse" Gives Doctors a Creative Outlet

By Ryan Morden

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Syracuse, NY – The literary art journal "The Healing Muse" is an outlet for Central New York medical professionals to channel the emotion they build as the care for and interact with patients. The journal is a place for physicians to share what they've gone through as they travel from diagnosis to prognosis, and beyond. WRVO's Ryan Morden has this report on what's called "narrative medicine" and how stories and poems can help doctors become more sympathetic as they give their patients life-altering diagnoses.

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