The Oak Park Concert Chorale will carol through the halls of Melrose Park-based community hospital, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, adding a seasonal form of healing therapy. "Research shows that patients respond positively to appropriate tones, rhythms and melodies," said Linda Fisher, MD, internal medicine and pediatrics at Gottlieb who also is a certified music therapy practitioner. "Music is relaxing, soothing and enhances a sense of well-being, especially at the holiday time when the hospital-bound are feeling left out of the celebrations...
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