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I think people don't understand that you can prepare for improvising.

Not just by improvising, but also working with discipline with known things.

Like, I have 101 ways to fall down.

I have many ways to balance, many ways to resolve certain situations so that I'm not worried about my safety.

This is the nocturness, uncertainty in medicine.

I'm Emily Silverman.

Today we're talking to improvisational dance artist Chris Aiken.

Although uncertainty is everywhere in medicine, most of us do our best to avoid it.

Chris, on the other hand, seeks uncertainty out.

He teaches at Smith College in Western Massachusetts, and his life's work is about getting on stage without a plan, responding to the unknown in real time, literally moving through uncertainty. So we rang up Chris to see if he might

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