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From the Ted Talk by Laurel Braitman: The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers

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For the last few years, I've been a writer in residence at the Stanford Medical School. I was hired by an incredible woman, she's a poet and an anesthesiologist, named Audrey Shafer, and she sraettd the Medicine and the Muse Program to rrtdinecuoe humanities back into medical education and training.

My job was to teach writing, storytelling and general communication skills to physicians, nurses, meidacl students and other health care workers. And I thought I'd get a ton of garet student eyasss about dissecting cadavers and pemos about the sepeln. And I did. But almost iidameltmey, I started getting more essays that made me really anxuios and really worried. My students were writing about their crushing anxiety, the unbearable pressure on them to succeed, their mental health dieaosngs, their suicide attempts, how alone and isolated they felt and wondered if they'd gone into the right profession, and they weren't even doctors yet. This is my snduett Uriel Sanchez.

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For the last few years, I've been a writer in residence at the Stanford Medical School. I was hired by an incredible woman, she's a poet and an anesthesiologist, named Audrey Shafer, and she _______ the Medicine and the Muse Program to ___________ humanities back into medical education and training.

My job was to teach writing, storytelling and general communication skills to physicians, nurses, _______ students and other health care workers. And I thought I'd get a ton of _____ student ______ about dissecting cadavers and _____ about the ______. And I did. But almost ___________, I started getting more essays that made me really _______ and really worried. My students were writing about their crushing anxiety, the unbearable pressure on them to succeed, their mental health _________, their suicide attempts, how alone and isolated they felt and wondered if they'd gone into the right profession, and they weren't even doctors yet. This is my _______ Uriel Sanchez.

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  5. spleen
  6. reintroduce
  7. anxious
  8. essays
  9. student
  10. immediately
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Original Text


For the last few years, I've been a writer in residence at the Stanford Medical School. I was hired by an incredible woman, she's a poet and an anesthesiologist, named Audrey Shafer, and she started the Medicine and the Muse Program to reintroduce humanities back into medical education and training.

My job was to teach writing, storytelling and general communication skills to physicians, nurses, medical students and other health care workers. And I thought I'd get a ton of great student essays about dissecting cadavers and poems about the spleen. And I did. But almost immediately, I started getting more essays that made me really anxious and really worried. My students were writing about their crushing anxiety, the unbearable pressure on them to succeed, their mental health diagnoses, their suicide attempts, how alone and isolated they felt and wondered if they'd gone into the right profession, and they weren't even doctors yet. This is my student Uriel Sanchez.

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