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I'm Elise Hugh. In the midst of this

unprecedented global pandemic, we're reminded how important our healers are.

Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals are in the business of saving lives.

But who's helping them as they face the unrelenting pressure of their jobs?

In today's talk from TED 2019, author and anthropologist Laurel Braeban introduces us to one effective way

to make sure our healers stay healthy.

Hint, it's not about their bodies, it's about their minds. It's about their minds. Hey listener, a quick favor.

We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes

to respond.

Please visit survey dot PRX.org

slash health to take the survey today.

That survey dot PRX dot org slash health.

Thanks. 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 Schaefer,

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.

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