Music soothes burnout, increases empathy

Medical students who temporarily put down a medical instrument and picked up a musical one, say doing so helped alleviate their burnout symptoms and made them more empathetic to their patients’ needs.
Tulane University Medical School student Jacob Cross will graduate in 2020 with hopes to pursue a career in anesthesiology. The 1,500-plus miles between school and home in northern California, coupled with the academic reality of the first few years of his higher education, left him struggling to find time and energy to do things outside of the classroom.
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