Author: JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 23/03/2025 | 05:30:10
AI Summary:
The Swiss town of Neuchâtel is offering its residents a new medical option. Expose yourself to art and get a doctor’s note to do it for free. The project is based on a 2019 World Health Organization report. Cultural mediation manager says it built on a similar idea rolled out at the Fine Arts Museum in Montreal, Canada, in 2019. Dr. Marc-Olivier Sauvain, head of surgery at the Neuchatel Hospital Network, said he had already prescribed museum visits to two patients to help them get in better shape before a planned operation.
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I mean, yes and no
this simultaneously exposes therapy as “less scientific” (meaning, it’s not as step-by-step as other hard sciences like math where calculations follow definitely) while also affirming that many “wholesome” activities in life are “therapeutic” naturally