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Can Improv Play a Role in Healthcare? Yes, and More, 1 Leader Says

Can Improv Play a Role in Healthcare? Yes, and More, 1 Leader Says

Susmita Pati, MD, encourages health systems to take a cue from performance arts. For the past few years, the chief of the division of primary care pediatrics at Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medicine and chief medical program adviser for the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science has helped develop a communications workshop based on improv principles.

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