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Healthcare heroes, how is art helping you right now?

With a stethoscope around her neck, G. Sofia Nelson holds hula hoops used in her dance pieces.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
By Makeda Easter
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For some healthcare workers, staying creative is a form of escape, a way to cope with stress or a strategy for sharing a message of hope with their community. Are you a healthcare employee who also has a creative outlet to help you cope with work during the pandemic? We’d love to share your art in an upcoming story.

NEWBURY PARK, CA - FEBRUARY 09: G. Sofia Nelson, MD, is a Pulmonologist and in 2020 founded the Lumia Dance Company, focused on prop manipulation and storytelling through dance and is photographed with hoops used in her performances (as well as her stethoscope) in the backyard of her Newbury Park, CA, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Nelson is with West Coast Pulmonary & Critical Care Physicians and treats COVID-19 patients at St. John’s Regional Hospital in Oxnard and St. John’s Pleasant Valley in Camarillo. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Makeda Easter

Makeda Easter is a former arts reporter at the Los Angeles Times.

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