Three medical students nurture the soul through poetry
Clip: 1/6/2014 | 3m 52s
Three medical students take time out of their hectic schedules to focus on reading poetry.
Three Harvard medical students, who chose to take time out from their hectic schedules to focus on reading poetry and honing their own writing skills, credit poetry with "feeding the soul," "doing justice" to hard realities that prose couldn't adequately address and giving them perspective on the parallels between medicine and writing.
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Three medical students nurture the soul through poetry
Clip: 1/6/2014 | 3m 52s
Three Harvard medical students, who chose to take time out from their hectic schedules to focus on reading poetry and honing their own writing skills, credit poetry with "feeding the soul," "doing justice" to hard realities that prose couldn't adequately address and giving them perspective on the parallels between medicine and writing.
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