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Design for Living
Reader's Digest US
|May 2018
When a patient sees her doctor’s dismal cancer treatment rooms, she knows just the cure
IN 2011, Nancy Ballard went for a routine checkup that turned into something extraordinary. At 60, the recently retired entrepreneur had just completed her master’s in botanical illustration. In fact, she was carrying a painting of a plant she’d done when she arrived at her doctor’s San Francisco office. “It would be great if we had artwork like that for our chemotherapy rooms,” the nurse said. Ballard asked to see one.
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