LISTEN | Interview with Mélanie La Couture of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Nicole Parent of Médecins francophones du Canada : As It Happens 8:01 Doctors in Montreal can now prescribe their patients tickets to the orchestra

Doctors in Montreal are prescribing music as medicine.

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has teamed up with a national physicians’ organization to develop a new program that allows doctors to prescribe their patients free tickets to shows.

“Physicians will get prescriptions that they will give to patients. The patients will call us. And we will give each patient that calls us two tickets for free,” Mélanie La Couture, CEO of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, told host Nil Köksal.

“They can select the concert they want.”

It’s the latest example in C

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