“Don’t try this at home,” Claudius Conrad, M.D., Ph.D., quips as he lectures on the historical ties between music and medicine. Conrad, an assistant professor of Surgical Oncology, explains to his audience that in the Middle Ages, popular prescriptions involved specific musical combinations. The example he offers involves alternating between playing the flute and harp to alleviate gout.

Despite the long-standing connection between...

Dragons are protectors, the young patient believed. So she envisioned herself standing next to a dragon in a giant digitally printed mural.

Another patient loved to paint pictures of elephants and decided he wanted to paint colorful designs on a real one.

Yet another wanted to gather all her artwork and publish it in book format.

Our Arts in Medicine Program gave all three young people the guidance and tools they...