Dr. Alan Siegel is a Family Physician in Northern California. He has run an arts in health program, Art of Health and Healing, for the last 10 years for his county health system. He has also been working nationally to bring the arts to health care workers to address burnout, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. His ARC Program (Arts for Resilience in Clinicians) will be releasing a website soon to make expressive arts engagement available to all health care workers. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Board member of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH), and Lead for NOAH's Clinician Burnout and Well-being Working Group.
We talk about healthcare worker burnout, stress, anxiety, PTSD and how the arts should be used to address these issues. While these issues predated COVID, it has become much worse during the pandemic and will continue to worsen as the pandemic improves.
You can watch the music video for his song "The Doctor Is Out" at https://vimeo.com/509467670