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Creative arts therapy programs can help health care workers dance, write and draw their way through burnout and on-the-job stress

  • Written by Marc Moss, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Creative arts therapy programs can help health care workers dance, write and draw their way through burnout and on-the-job stressIf current trends continue, the U.S. could see a drastic shortage of health care workers over the next decade.LaylaBird/E+ via Getty Images

Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet health care professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness and dying in an intensely...

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