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Shands Arts in Medicine program: http://www.shands.org/aim/

Center for the Arts in Healthcare, Research & Education, University of Florida: http://www.arts.ufl.edu/CAHRE/

Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine--a documentary filmed at Shands & UF: http://www.poetryandmedicine.com/producers.html

Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine is a multi-hour television program on the poetry of illness and recovery. The broadcast program will feature caregivers, patients, families, poets both published and unknown, all who have written about illness and release. That many nurses and physicians write poems will come as surprise to an audience of patients who have grown cynical about health care costs, impersonal treatment, and the intrusion of corporate self-interest in the doctor-patient relationship. Poetry serves to remind us of the spiritual mission of medicine. Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine will demonstrate the inspirational, therapeutic, and healing power of poetry.

International Society for the Arts in Healthcare: http://www.thesah.org

Healing Art Source: http://www.healingartsource.com