Emotional Dry Cleaning: A Writer Helps Doctors Share Their Stories–And Their Pain

August 30, 2023

(STAT News) – For the last few years, Braitman has been performing a kind of emotional dry cleaning for health care workers — accepting their dirty laundry without judgment, and then helping wash, press and fold it into something crisp and worthy of being worn out into the world. 

She had already been teaching students as the director of writing and storytelling at Stanford Medical School’s program for medical humanities and the arts. Soon after Covid arrived,  she felt compelled to start a virtual writing workshop, free for any health care professional with an internet connection to attend. “We will just go until you people don’t want to come anymore,” she said.  (Read More)